A Walk Along Curbar Edge

A shorter day today so a later start.

First we stopped at Outside in Hathersage for breakfast, the a quick visit to Hitch'n'Hike for Keith to buy some Kahootla Microspike crampons for his trip to the Dolomites in September.

Next we drove to the car park at Curbar Gap and set off following the path along the tops of Curbar and Froggat Edges. It was coolish but sunny and dry and although we could see dark clouds and signs of rain falling in the distance, we luckily remained in the dry as we continued along the top of these well known rock-climbing spots.

Once we reached the wooden field gate leading to the woods above Nether Padley, we stopped and turned around to begin retracing our route back to where we started.

Again there were large, dark and threatening clouds in the distance and again we remained dry as we arrived back at the car park where we sat in the sun on a grassy bank eating the ice creams we had bought from the ice cream van parked in the car park.