Out & About: September 2016

After the aborted trip last week due to the weather we were all looking forward to this morning's outing. We weren't sure where to go go except we thought somewhere high with good views, someone mentioned Bamford Edge so that was it. We stopped momentarily in Chatsworth Park to take a quick pic of the church steeple.was Rob's turn and it only took just over an hour to get parked up at 07:05. We took a different route this time and followed the footpath straight to the top of the hill then turned left and just followed our noses, we could see where the footpath was headed. Part way along the track we spotted a tent and our Rob went off track towards it where he had a good natter to the occupants. We 3 carried on to the Great Tor, i could see the inversion and wanted to get there before it melted away in the sunshine. When we got there the reward was unbelievable, a lot of the valley and the Ladybower Reservoir was covered in mist, just a magical scene.We took lots and lots of pics (my apologies for having so many). We met another photog up there Jonny Joyce (i have liked his cracking pics on facebook) and he also comes from Belper, such a small world. We had our breakfast with a view to die for. We chatted to Jonny for a bit more then headed back towards the car with a couple of photo stops along the way. We went back on the lower edge track and we soon got to the 2 campers, it turns out they are father and son doing a bit of wild camping. They told us they have been going out most weekends to different places, what a great example to the youngster. After chatting for a while we went back down the hill to the car. On the way back down to Hathersage we spotted some swallows gathering on the phone wires ready for there long trip south.