Another Return to Kinder

The original plan was for the two of us to do a walk from the King's Tree in the Derwent Valley, especially as the weather forecast was for a cold but clear and sunny day.
We were woken in the morning at nearly 0800 by noisy jackdaws in the garden and when Karen had a look out of the window and saw that around two inches of snow had fallen overnight. This wasn't in the weather forecast. The first snow of the winter!
As the planned walk involved driving along a minor road and then a stretch of road which leads to a dead end and is only open to traffic at weekends from October onwards, we thought it might be best to avoid this route if there was any snow about.
So, we changed the plan to do a walk on Kinder instead.
The roads were fine as they had been gritted and when we got closer to the Edale valley we could see that there was less snow lying on the ground than back home in Winster, which was a bit of a surprise.
We parked in the large car park at Edale village (Grindsbrook Booth) and could see that it was still very overcast and not much like the weather forecast.
Anyway, we got our boots on and readied ourselves for the walk. By now there were at least blue patches of sky.
As we approached the centre of the village, Karen was a bit cold and still a bit hungry after a light breakfast so I suggested a hot drink and a snack at the café at Coopers Farm campsite.
It was warm in the café and Karen was soon warm again and once we had finished our food, we continued on our way with the plan to do the same route I had followed last week but in reverse, as there was a cold wind and we would get better shelter and have the wind in a more favourable direction.
The cloud cleared and the sun made an appearance as we climbed up the zig-zag path leading to Ringing Roger. We found a sheltered spot amongst the gritstone rocks to have a quick hot drink then continued on our way following the rising path leading to the Kinder plateau.
Once we reached the path along the edge, we continued along this with views back down to our starting point across to the small peak of Grindslow Knoll.
We found another sheltered spot in the lee of rocks and sat in the sun with views across to the Great Ridge of Hope Valley and miles beyond where we ate our lunch.
Continuing along the flagstone path with the odd icy patch, we followed around the edge then after passing the top of Grindsbrook Clough, followed the path leading to the summit of Grindslow Knoll. Here the wind was quite strong and again we sat in the shelter of rocks to finish off our hot drinks before dropping down the path back to Edale.
On the way home, we stopped at Outside at Calver Crossroads for a meal.
I wore my Buffalo Mountain Shirt, Polar Buff (as a scarf), Lowe Mountain Cap, Icepeak X-Treme trousers, Asolo Powermatic 200 GTX boots and Osprey Kestrel 38 rucksack.
As expected, the Buffalo Mountain Shirt was ideal for the conditions. While we were stopped on the top of Grindslow Knoll, I put my Paramo Torres Gilet on over the top and was more than warm enough.