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Day 50 - Can't Get There from Here
Note to self - top navigation tips gleaned from the Standedge to Crowden walk: 1. Assume nothing 2. Start on the right sheet of the map. There may be only half a mile on that sheet but that does not mean it will be straightforward! ...
Meet the flagstones
Teddy wore his YELLOW jumper today, he also needed a sunhat and suncream. Start temp : 18.5c Finish temp 25.5c Distance walked 16.04 ...
Day 2 - The Reamer
How could anything be worse than the Ball Breaker? How? And yet it was. Damn the kilometres of bog, damn the no bacon butty truck on the highway, damn the twisty part where you go around curve after curve after curve and don’t see anything ahead of ...
30/60- With the Peaks Come the Troughs
... reach Crowden. Was not much there but the campsite and a Hostel....I opted for the campsite! Another cliff top walk not far from Crowden...this slowed me down which was annoying. Took a short cut to try and make up time and luckily the lack of rain meant ...
Phase 9 Day 3
... and very soft to walk on but the black peat was never very far away. We turned west and started to head down towards Crowden Reservoir. The going was hard and rocky, rivulets of brown water shared the route down with boulders, boggy peat and moorland- ...
Day 26 - Edale to Crowden
... enough navigating!) We soon rectified our mistake though. We continued our journey down off Bleaklow to the Torside Reservoir and onward to Crowden youth hostel where Chris had parked the car. It was a fantastic 3 days and we loved the harsh landscape of ...
A tough day to start
Arrived at Edale start point, already apprehensive being an inexperienced walker (my longest training walk having been 8 miles) the sight of about 20 walkers attired as if to climb Ben Nevis immediately increased the tension i was feeling. Then to be ...
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