First walk for 2007

I am writing this blog mainly so that we can share some of our weekend walks with family and others that can't come with us.

Our walking year started on January 1st with a good walk onto Mam Tor in Derbyshire where we were staying in the caravan. We set off for a walk at about 11.30 in lovely sunshine, although it was cold. We walked up Cavedale which was steep and very wet but with nice views across Peveril castle. We then walked across the moor to Mam tor where the weather started to change. It was very busy with a stream of people walking up the hill. At the top it was windy but not as bad as the last time we did this walk when we had to hang on to each other to prevent getting blown off the top! We walked off the tor and up Black tor and Lose hill as it started to rain, then hail then snow. We took the wrong path off Lose hill and I slipped and landed on my bottom (very wet). We then had to reclimb quite a bit to get back on the right path. We got back to the caravan, dried off and had a glass of champagne to celebrate our first walk of the new year.