Shining Tor and Cats Tor

Keith drove up in the morning to join us for a walk to try out his new walking boots and allow his shoulder, which had been recently operated on, to have a rest.

We had breakfast in the café at Monyash the I drove us to park at the further car park beside Erwood Reservoir in the Goyt Valley, below the previous location of Erwood Hall.

We walked uphill following a wide, grassy path above the wooded Shooter's Clough then through a stile in the drystone wall leading along a gravel-surfaced path crossing the moorland to arrive at the summit of Shining Tor.

Here we sat behind the drystone-wall by the Trig. Point, which sheltered us from the North-Easterly wind and had a snack.

Next we followed the path paved with large slabs of rock towards the north, up and over Cat's Tor then onwards to Pym Chair.

From there we followed the path one the side of the minor road for a kilometre or so before crossing the road and through a stile bringing up to a rising path leading up and along Foxlow Edge.

The path then led down the other side and through woods to arrive back at Erwood Reservoir near the car park we had started from.