Wind is kinder to walkers
EAST Cheshire Ramblers did a ten-mile walk starting from Hayfield taking in Lantern Pike and a circuit of Kinder Reservoir.
This sounds simple, but involved a recce by two people to check the route a week before the day of the advertised walk.
The policy of the group is to offer a wide variety of walks each week. In summer this can be as many as nine walks in a week, ranging from two-mile ‘walks for health’ to longer excursions of 15 miles or more. We aim to provide both walks in our local area and further afield.
The day of the recce from Hayfield was sunny but breezy. As we left the shelter of the Sett Valley Trail for the slopes of Lantern Pike we started to feel the wind.
We had intended to observe two minutes’ silence for Remembrance Sunday on the summit, but the wind cut this to a single minute.
By contrast on the day of the group walk there was less wind, but also less sunshine and the views were not as good.
We descended from Lantern Pike to cross the Hayfield to Glossop road and took a track which gradually ascended to the Shooting Cabin above Kinder Reservoir. Soon afterwards we were fortunate to find a sheltered spot with good views of the reservoir and the surrounding hills for a lunch stop. The circuit of the reservoir involved crossing several feeder streams using bridges and stepping stones.
On the way back to Hayfield the route passed the quarry from where the mass trespass over Kinder Scout began in 1932 and the start of the route up William Clough, both of which are marked by commemorative plaques.
The walk finished with tea and cakes in Rosie Lee’s tea room in Hayfield.