Sunday, 8 September 2019

Pennine Way - Travel to Edale

The plan was to travel up to the Youth Hostel in Edale today, leave the car, then continue by train to Kirk Yetholm tomorrow. I had quite an easy drive up, despite a bad accident on the M1 which held things up for a while, and some lunatic driving as ever. . I reached the Youth Hostel by about 2.30PM after stopping en route for something (mediocre) to eat at the Cheshire Cheese inn at Hope.

 It was a lovely day, sunny and mild, and still plenty of time so off I went up to the Kinder Plateau, easily reached up the valley behind the hostel. In 45 minutes or so I was up top, surveying the scene. I took a couple of video shots of the view and hopefully this link will show you one of them. There are a couple of photos too.. this is a really scenic part of the world. It's my third visit to Edale this year and I could spend another week here very easily. I have a lovely en suite room all too myself here so all in all this has been an encouraging start to this adventure.

Half way up to the top. .. Edale yha is visible below. 

The Druid's Stone, a local landmark..

A selfie, in front of the Druid's Stone 

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