Tuesday December 3rd

Hathersage and High Neb

The first walk of December, and not a bad day to be out and about. We'd been to Hathersage and Stanage in January and June, so a trip this month seemed to have some symmetry. We walked up via Dennis knoll with a fine view of the edge ahead of us.
Stanage with autumn colours

A couple of Belted Galloways were grazing this side of the Stanage Plantation.

Belted Galloways grazing

The abandoned millstones on the way up to High Neb are a reminder of a very labour-intensive industry that must have ended more or less overnight.

On reaching the edge we made our way up to High Neb. The skies were perfectly clear for us, but Kinder, where we'd been last week, had clouds over its tops.

Kinder in the clouds, with Win Hill Lose Hill to the left

After visiting the trig point we went down to the shelter at the end of the grouse butts and had our lunch.

A great spot for lunch- out of the breeze

Although we could see a few people in the distance, we only met one or two and it felt as if we had the whole of Stanage to ourselves. At the Stanage Plantation we dropped down to the road again.

Stanage stretching into the distance

Below the road, we enjoyed more autumn light illuminating the trees before we returned to Hathersage.

A walk of 6.6 miles with 370m ascent.


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