Kinder Scouting...

Sam and Penny rang us to see if we fancied a walk.. and we did. So after a bit of consideration we decided to go up Kinder Scout.

Andrew printed off a route and used his new memory-map software (fancy as).

It was a 'nippy' kind of day with jackets on and jackets off every ten minutes!

There was quite a stiff little pull up at the beginning of the walk but then we were up on the plateau. Don't think we actually reached the true summit of Kinder Scout as it is notoriously difficult to find being a large plateau, we definitely got to the summit of Kinder Low - here is Mo checking out the trig point.

Then we walked on and had an impressive view of Kinder downfall - the photo doesn't really do it any justice. The waterfall comes straight out of bedrock to fall down the crags.

We had lunch sheltered behind some rocks and I tried to fly my little kite, much to the amusement of my brother! The wind was a bit too blustery and the string snapped then after I'd mended it the darned thing kept crashing!! Oh well, the Bailey's Irish Cream I took to put in the coffee went down a treat.

Quite a muddy descent back to the cars, tired legs and rosey cheeks - by 'eck it were grand!