Not quite Lose Hill? Yes one little soldier couldn't go all the way....
Date of Walk - 8th August 2009
Conditions - Sunny, sunny with a side helping of Scorchio!
Distance - 7.8 miles over good clear paths
Sunburn factor - Minor. Silly rave style hat saw to that. Need something with a wider brim for full coverage.
Dog factor - Present.
Max Factor - not until the evening dahling
This is the third time on this ridge within the forum for me, so I won't go into much detail as a brief search should find mine and others reports. For example Radders who did the whole circuit, cos he can, the same day I did this walk.
Simply because I can't think of anything better to do, the OS Map, courtesy of Crown Copyright.
If theres one thing to be said for the Chapel Path its that you see Kinder and the valley from a different angle. Chapel is meandering and contantly uphill, but like us you can cut part of it by taking the road. I hadn't been out for ages so thats my excuse out of the way nice and early.
Anyway, as I say you do get a different slant on things.
The weather and visibility was excellent today. As the day wore on the air seemed to get clearer so you felt you could reach out and touch objects miles away.
Even if we didn't appreciate the rain it's obvious the local plantlife did. This was one of many beside the path. Nice though they are, these attract Bees. I don't like Bees so this walk may have 7.8 miles but I did at least double that running away from Bees and Wasps.
Still eventually we get to the top and ignoring the sign head off towards Rushup Edge. Which would normally be replete with hang gliders but was deserted today.
To give you some idea of the clarity of the sky, heres a shot where you can just about make out Win Hill.
Despite having been here many times before I've never given Winnats Pass much thought. Here though it looks marvellous. Almost like someone has pulled the plug and the landscape is sinking into the Pass.
Now we were nearing the end of our walk. The views towards Hollins Cross were exceptionally clear.
Beyond that you can see the valley, Back Tor and Lose hill in all their glory.
As you can see from the GPS track, we didn't make it all the way. One short, hairy legged fellah couldn't take it. Despite drinking gallons of water, the lack of shade did for him. Eventually he asked if we could go home.
With only 2 miles to go as well. So we head down, through some disconcerting but passive cows.
Obviously we carried the dog through as letting him walk on the ground would probably have resulted in Dog and Walker pâté (the cows were biiiig). Still we got to the end of the footpath in one piece. Not our usual route down but a nice one, cows aside.
Pausing only to rest our weary paws in the water, we headed back to the car and home.
Even though we didn't get exactly where we wanted to it doesn't really matter. It was a good walk in hot conditions. This weekend looks a little cooler...
© Dazza 2009