I suppose for adults it'd be knee deep in water. Still not pleasant, I'll think about it after a few dry weeks - so 2013 then
Thanks for that I'll keep Ollerbrook Clough in mind, it may be useful for a more rounded walk on Kinders Eastern fringe. Can you get all the way to the plateau? My OS map shows it stops short, but google maps suggests it goes all the way.
At the moment yes we've stuck to the south of Kinder, partly due to it's locality to Edale and it's facilities but also because we're repeating some stuff the weather let us down on previously. Rushup - Lose Hill for example is one walk we want to repeat in better weather, not Kinder but you get the idea.
We will be looking at the northern edges and approaches soon no doubt (prep for the lakes) and one thing I'd love to do is the circuit round the plateau, ideally finishing as the sun goes down so I get a sunset just before heading down the ladder again (which I feel would be the safest route in the dark as it's hard to miss and lightly coloured due to the stones).
Still so much to do (Roaches, Chrome Hill) and never enough weekends. Still I'll write them up when I tackle them, and thanks for your comments.