A Snowy Kinder Scout

Yet another trip on Kinder, again while Karen was busy at home sorting out books and Willow the cat spent the day asleep in her child-size sleeping bag.

It was very cold and quite windy with quite a few others walking around on Kinder but the cloudbase was nearly at the same height so it was a long way from a clear and sunny and cold day in which any walk on Kinder would be excellent.

A couple of lads were trying out their drooped pick ice axes and crampons on the small frozen waterfalls which had formed on the rock step in the northern branch of Grinds Brook and were certainly enjoting themselves.

I wore a Trek Mates Merino Wool shirt with a Rab Vapour Rise Guide jacket on top and was warm, dry and comfortable all day. The Vapour Rise Guide jacket is a thicker and heavier version of Rab's Vapour Rise jacket and is an alternative take on the Buffalo Pertex and Pile design.

I repeated the route Karen and I took recently: going up via Grindslow Knoll then around the southern edge of the plateau and then down via Ringing Roger.