Peak District, Kinder Scout

 6 1/2 hours

A glorious day up on Kinder Scout from just above the Snake Inn.

Park just above the Snake Inn (free), the path is just across the road.

Which leads you through the forest before the main path starts.

Bit further.

Out on the moor all the way up to Mill Hill.

Looking back.

And forward with Kinder's northern edge to the left.

Who lived in a house like this?

Approaching the sign post near Mill Hill. It started to get busy.

Not that way...

Edale bearing it is.

Up there....

A quick look down towards Hayfield before I head up.

A helicopter was busy ferryng supplies up to the plateau for restoration work.

 

http://www.kinder-scout.co.uk/introduction.html

A £2.5 million project to restore Kinder Scout, driven forward by the National Trust, the Biffa Awards Scheme, United Utilities and Natural England’s Environmental Stewardship Scheme has been informed by the views of local people following a period of consultation.
The project will take place over 5 years starting in 2011 and will see vast areas of the bare and degraded blanket peat landscape restored by gully-blocking, brash spreading and moorland revegetation work. If this restoration project is to be successful a temporary fence around Kinder Scout, designed to keep sheep — not people — off the moorland will be required, to allow the newly planted vegetation the opportunity to get established while keeping open access to Kinder Scout for walkers.

I decided not to head for Kinder Downfall as it was far too busy, if solitude is your thing you won't find it there on a nice day. So instead I headed off left onto the much quieter northern edge of Kinder.

That's Bleaklow over there.

More supplies.

Looking down to Ashop Clough where I was earlier.

As it was a nice day I decided to venture onto the plateau and have a bit of a wander about, above is Fair Brook. There were boot prints heading up it so followed them but it wasn't long before they disappeared as well as the Brook so I turned left and headed back towards the edge.

These two stones must have a name.

Looking back along the edge.

The way down which should lead me to the bottom of Fairbook. Posts can be seen which will be the new fence in place to keep the sheep off the plateau.

Which it did. From here it was a short walk back up through the woods and to the car.