David and Jacinta's Walks- 2023

 The Southern Gritstone Edges After a rather wet week, the weather forecast for Sunday was excellent, so we headed out early to Baslow. After a coffee at the pretty Café on the Green, we walked up the road and track, towards Wellington’s Monument. We have already seen its delights, so we struck out along Baslow Edge, towards Curbar. On a sunny Sunday, the place was crowded, with masses of dog walkers. As we approached Curbar Gap we came across the Curbar Highland Cattle. They're very used to humans and a lot of people were mingling with them but, in the past, there've been some nasty incidents with them so we passed by as quickly as we could. Curbar Cows We then walked onto Froggatt Edge which is always great; the views are brilliant and the sense of space is superb. We had a break and a snack above the edge. A break above Froggatt Edge Eventually, the walk comes down from Froggatt and across to the Grouse Inn (which we had visited on a previous walk back in April ). It takes ...

White Edge, Curbar Edge and Froggatt Edge We had a nice, but slightly delayed, meet with friends at their fantastic rental in the western peak. We suggested a variation on a walk that we'd done a number of times- walking along White Edge and following the edge, past (another) Hurkling Stone , the first that we knew of being on the Back Tor walk  and then down to Curbar Gap. Unfortunately, the Citroën coffee van wasn't there but we made the most of the views while we had lunch at the bench just south of the Curbar Gap road. Our return was along the tops of Curbar and Froggatt Edges, with a drink at The Grouse Inn along the way. The top of Froggatt Pinnacle (?) It was great to catch up with our friends and to enjoy a walk of just over 7 miles with 350m ascent.