There was an Orpheus CC trip to North Wales to do the Croesor –
Rhosydd Mine through trip this weekend and I had bought a bouyancy
aid in preparation for it but after some consideration, we decided it
may be better to leave this for another time as Karen's shoulder
injury would make it possibly tricky.
We have been having a heatwave (official according to the Met
Office) for the past week and today was again very hot with
temperatures in the very high twenties as we parked in a small layby
on the Snake Road near the Snake Inn.
We got our boots on and set off carefully down the busy main road
until we reached a stile a few hundred metres away and thankfully
left the traffic behind as we followed a path through the woods to a
foot bridge crossing the River Ashop.
As we started following the path on the side of the Fair Brook as
it headed towards the Kinder Scout plateau we spotted a group of kids
wearing helmets and dressed in caving oversuits who were taking part
in an outdoor activity involving following the course of the brook in
the shallow water, clambering up the occasional rocky steps and
deeper pools of water. It was very tempting to jump in and join them
to cool off!
We soon reached the head of the small valley and were clambering
over gritstone boulders until we arrived on the plateau edge where we
found a shady spot by one of the scattered large boulders to have a
sit down and cool off.
Having cooled off, we set off following a path along the edge
overlooking the Fair Brook below and along Seal Edge.
At another small rocky outcrop we sat down to eat our lunch and
then again continued along Seal Edge as far as the Seal Stones where
we dropped down from the edge and followed a path which was steep to
start with and then joined a narrow land rover track at some shooting
butts.
This track dropped down gradually back to where Fair Brook joins
the River Ashop near to the footbridge.
We crossed the bridge and again followed the path through the wood
to the road-side stile. At the stile another oversuit-clad and
helmet-wearing group of kids were coming through the stile to head
for Fair Brook and among them we recognised fellow club member
Callum.
We walked back to the car and after changing from walking boots,
drove to Hathersage for a snack at the café at Outside.
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