A trip up to Snake Pass

We set off at 05:00 this morning in Ike's car heading for Snake Pass, when we set off the sky was clear with stars twinkling and everything looked good. We arrived at the top of Snake Pass where the Pennine way crosses the road. We were intending to go to the crash site for the B29 fortress bomber that crashed in 1947. We have been to this before probably 10 years ago but we could see the hillside where it crashed was covered in low lying mist. We walked quite a long way up the tack but the visibility was just getting worse, we got 1 1/2 miles from the road and decided it wasn't worth going on so we turned back. the trouble with this area is the fact that you are walking in deep tracks in the land some of which are over 10 feet and you just cannot see anything. If we had a view on the track we would have carried on. We got back to the car and the hill cleared briefly but was generally still covered in mist. We drove down to the Snake Pass Inn and stopped to take a couple of pics. Back into the car and we ended up at the parking spot on Bamford Edge where we had our breakfast. The sun had come out affording some cracking views over towards Castleton and the Hope Valley Cement Works. After breakfast we headed back home.

This weeks route on the Pennine Way

Still very dull when we arrived

The crash site was on this mist covered hill

The early stages are OK with plenty of visibility

Still a bit of heather around

Dead bird

Soon got into the deep tracks where you cant see over the top

One of the stone markers

A bit wet by now Rob, Ike and Geoff

Looking back across the Snake Pass

Stairway to heaven

For a very brief moment the hill was clear

Covered in mist again

Snake Pass Inn

Rob

The Hope Valley Cement Works

Some folks going up onto Bamford Edge

Mam Tor on the right

Win Hill in the sunshine

Ike, Geoff and Rob

A disappointing morning because we didn't get to the crash site but still a pleasant outing. Only managed about a 3 mile walk but we did eventually get some lovely Derbyshire views.

See you next week.