James Tucker in Cov

I went to Derbyshire for some less-civilised exploration, hiking the first few miles of the Penine Way, a trail that goes to Scotland from the mid-North of England. We started in Edale, which has about 8 houses and a pub, and then through some valleys with occassional farms and rather more sheep, and then headed up the side of Kinder Scout, which I'm told was about 2000 feet elevation. From the top, you can see to Manchester (and maybe Wales). The top wasn't the moor I expected it to be, but more a moonscape of rocks and peat. The way down went through a series of river valleys and ended at a resevoir we'd been able to see from the top-- well, kinda. In the picture at left, we walked all the way across the top, and down and around the left side. The rocky bit there is a waterfall I've shown panoramically below. We still had to walk into town, which was a nice little place called Hayfield. With a pub.