Derwent Edge

DATE 01.04..2018 | DISTANCE approx| 12.8km | HIGHEST POINT 538M

Posted by Matt | Filed under PEAK DISTRICT

 

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Just one walk in the Peaks in 2018!!!!!!! This was a great little walk on a rather cold and dreary April day. It definitely felt more like winter than it did spring. I've been up here before but this time coming up from the opposite end. The views from Derwent Edge are some of the best in the Peaks and I think it's the best section of the massive Ridge line that consists of Stanage, Baslow, Curbar etc.

 

looking back whilst heading up to whinstone lee tor. in the distane win hill (left) and crook hill (right)

crook hill and ladybower reservoir

derwent moors

catherine on derwent moors

pushing on towards white tor

wheel stones and white tor beyond

wheel stones

white tor from wheel stones

fun climbing on wheel stones

view from white tor

catherine on white tor

moving on to dovestone tor

cold but happy

cakes of bread (middle right)

back tor

bleak view north from back tor

back tor, view south

lost lad summit. named after the sad story of a farm boy who became lost in the snow with his dog and whose body was found here. apparently they haunt this area, 100 years later.

near millbrook plantation

boggy near pike low

briery plantation and ladybower reservoir

ladybower reservoir near wellhead