Last year when I done the Edale skyline route, I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had started paving Brown Knoll. Only in parts though, leaving stretches of 100 metres or so, enough to get ankle deep in peat bog. I done the same walk about 5/6 weeks ago as part of fitness training for C2C this coming weekend. Yeah, what a great job they've done of it, linking Rushup Edge onto Kinder is now a breeze, great for eating a couple of miles away quickly on what is a relatively boring area