Winter
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Silver Expedition ~ 17th-19th July 1968 G A Robert Paterson (ON 1963-1970) This expedition took place in the Peak District. On the first day, we started walking at Hayridge Farm a few miles south of the Snake Inn, followed the Snake River valley to the watershed and then descended to a campsite at Gnat Hole on the outskirts of Glossop. The second day the route took us to Edale via Farlands Booth, Kinder Low End and Jacob’s Ladder. The final day took us to Bretton via Hollins Cross and Robin Hoods Cross. The group was made up of Balen, Negus, Turner, Newton, Firth and I. sleeper - woke up to check the campsite for any left rubbish; I am pleased to say that we left none.
Gnat Hole 08:30
The Expedition - Day 2 - Tuesday 18 July 1968 Largely a verbatim transcript of my expedition log.
Gnat Hole
I had a fairly good night in the tent. I woke once about 4 o’clock and found a large lump of grass in the middle of my back under the groundsheet. I quickly fell back to sleep and was woken up at half past six by Newton. For breakfast we ate hard-boiled eggs, porridge, nuts and raisins, soup and coffee (black). We were planning an early start but we were not allowed to leave until 08:30 when Dr Foote - a very sound
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We set off. We had a long climb upwards of about 400 or 500 feet. We followed the stream by which we had camped, all the way up. It was fern country which made the going harder. The weather was hot and we had a rest.
Bunt Hill 08:55
We were on fairly level ground between Harry Hut and Bunt Hill. We disturbed many grouse as we walked. We had another rest on the side of the hill, the weather being very hot. Then we came to a big obstacle - Hollingworth Clough, a large steep sided re-entrant. The sides seemed to go down and down, while on the other side we could see a very steep ascent leading up from a cliff at the bottom. We decided that we would have to detour round it. We took a diagonal path down the steep slope and found an easy crossing place. After
