Shining Tor

In the morning we said good bye to Keith and Pete who were going digging in Water Icicle Close Cavern while Karen and I drove to the car park near the southern end of Erwood Reservoir.

It was a cool and misty morning and quite still in the car park and as we were getting our walking boots on by the car, the midges appeared!

So, we hurriedly finished and the set odd to leave the midges behind and started up the steep grassy path leading up along the top of Shooters Clough and as we reached the higher section, the path followed a very old sunken track across the moorland.

At a gate through a wall, there was a junction of two footpaths with our route continuing onwards to the Cat and Fiddle Inn. So, we turned through the gate onto the path leading soon to the summit of Shining Tor.

It was still misty and breezy as we sat on one of the two benches to eat lunch.

Once we had finished, we continued on the path slabbed with large stone slabs heading towards Cats Tor.

Gradually the mist and cloud base began to rise and we began to see views in the distance.

After reaching the minor road at Pym Chair, we followed down hill along the road on the verge and then at a gate on the the southern side of the road, we passed through the gate then followed the grassy path up and along Foxlow Edge which dropped down on the other side through woods to arrive back at our starting point.