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Meet report. A great walk from Alport Bridge on the A57 Snake Pass up Bleaklow’s “finest and wildest glen.” Passing the historic Alport hamlet and Britain’s largest landslip we made steady progress beside the River Alport until the vague track petered out. Striking steeply up hill we located the small path that took us above the now steeply sided valley to Grains in the Water. This is the point where several small tributaries (grains) convege on open moorland. While we were lunching here low cloud rolled in so we abandoned plans to walk to Alport Head and Bleaklow Hill, instead heading south east for Over Wood Moss. Sometimes following faint sheep tracks, sometimes on rough moor we traversed Alport Moor and into the top of Oyster Clough with dramatic views of the waterfalls in Alport Dale on the way. Oyster Clough Cabin provided a welcome break and much laughter. The route was now much easier – down the Clough to pick up the line of the Roman road which took us back to our starting point. A great exploring day away from sizable or any paths. We saw no one from Alport hamlet back to the Snake. Some said that we had a whale of a day!
Photos to follow. DavidReminder that I am leading a walk this Saturday up Alport Dale onto Bleaklow returning via Oyster Clough. Distance approximately 12 miles. See my earlier message for full details. David
Reminder that I am leading a walk this Saturday up Alport Dale onto Bleaklow returning via Oyster Clough. Distance approximately 12 miles. See my earlier message for full details. David
A great day with hot sunshine attracted 21 of us to climb a wide variety of routes from the fairly straightforward to more challenging routes such as Tody’s Wall and Three Pebble Slab.
It got so warm that most of us adjourned to The Grouse in late afternoon for a well deserved drink.
A reminder to be aware of ticks which are increasingly common. I picked up two, I think on this day. DavidA day without rain! 10 of us made it to Harborough Rocks. A cool dry day, warming up when the sun came out and cooling down when the wind got up.
Plenty of routes and boulder problems done. It did seem like we were in the middle of a war zone with two different clay pigeon shoots and the factory making a lot of noise. We all survived. Role on summer! DavidSunday looking OK for Harborough Rocks. Should be a cool dry day. If you ordered a copy of ‘True Grit’ I will have some with me. David
Weather forecast currently poor. May be a day for Awesome Walls. Will post on WhatsA6 tomorrow morning.
Weather forecast currently poor. May be a day for Awesome Walls. Will post on WhatsA6 tomorrow morning.
Weather poor from midday so meet moved to Wharncliffe Edge. OS Grid ref SK 296977 to SK 303970. Meet at Himmelswillen Area from which we will slowly move south to Hells Gate Gully Area.
Rain may come mid afternoon so we plan to be there from 10 am ish.
Please contact me if you need more info. DavidHi there! Confirmation of details for the River Wye walk. We plan to walk downstream from Topley Pike to Rowsley. Approx 17 miles.
Meet at 9am in lay by off A6 just south of Topley Pike quarry. NGR is SK 113 725. Coming from Bakewell direction the lay by is on the right just beyond the A5270 junction. If you go down the hill you have missed it!
There is a Transpeak bus at 0816 from Rowsley to the start. We aim to park in the car park on the south side of the A6 at NGR SK 258 659 and catch the bus.
Hopefully, we will have vehicles at either end to offer a ferry service where necessary.
Please confirm if you are coming – I have a list of those who have expressed an interest. Car sharing will be useful where possible – for example someone could pick up Lynda in Ashford.
DavidMeet report – a very wet start to the walk but undismayed we viewed the impressive remaining tower of Beauchief Abbey before moving on to Beauchief Hall and its herd of Fallow deer. The bluebells were excellent in the ancient woodland of Lady Spring Wood which was more than could be said for Moor View. Walking through Greenhill Park, we were beside the stream that marks the boundary between Sheffield and Derbyshire. It reminded us that our whole walk would have been in Derbyshire prior to the 1934 boundary changes. Lunch, and an end to the rain, was in Chantryland Meadow, Graves Park. The whole meadow was full of cowslips in this peaceful corner. Traversing Graves Park and crossing rhe A61 we finished the walk through Chancet Wood and Parkbank Wood, returning to the Abbey. The drifts of bluebells with the bright green beech leaves above them were particularly entrancing in Parkbank Wood. The walk finished with tea and a great variety of cakes.
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