(Collins Peak District Guide - 9.75 Miles)
We arrived in Hathersage just before 10am on a busy and Sunny sunday morning. Parked in the pay and display car aprk at £5 all day.
Walked back into Hathersage and headed Nother and up Baulk Lane into more open countrside, and a view of Stanage edge ahead of us.
North Lees Hall (above) is a Tudor tower house and one of the homes of the Eyre family, thought to be the model which Charlotte Bronte used for Thornfield Hall in her novel Jane Eyre. It is now used as holiday accomodation.
The Highland type cattle seemed formidable, but ignored us as we strode past.
The view from the road as we approached the edge. Note there are loos here near to the road side, for a quick pit stop before the walk to the top.
The rock climbers were out in force and all paths were very busy, with everyone making the best of the warm day before the chill arrives forecast for next week.
Trekking along the top of the edge to High Neb, our turnaround point, and then back along a lower track, before ascending back up and following the edge in the other direction to the Cowper Stone.
This High Dynamic Range technique combines the high ranges of each exposure and depending upon the effects settings different effects from fairly neutral with punchier dynamics to strange colours and contrasts can be obtained. The example right is a little toward the wacker end of the scale, whilst the black and white image above is less so, but enhanced black and white dynamics overall.
We took lunch (sarnies) at the turnaround point, and dropped to the lower path with the old mill stones evident. The path then allowed us to ascend once again up onto the edge after the point we had ascended earlier, and to head off along the edge in the other direction.
By now it was VERY busy (Picadilly Circus springs to mind)... Sunny Sundays eh!!
More of that strange HDR stuff, showing the contrast between black and white ans some funky tweaked colour shots (LSD anyone?). sue has a glow about her in the second shot, must be that Ready Brek she had earlier!
Coming off the edge at the Cowper Stone we descended to the main road, following this right for a while and and diverting off righ and down a steep grassy descent and across Callow Bank.
Then we followed an easier 1 mile down Dale bottom and back into Hathersage.
Our Walk Score: 7.5/10 (Tip: Don`t go on a Sunny Sunday)
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