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  • Dave 11:00 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: hayfield, ice, , , , trigpoint, Walking   

    Hayfield to Kinder 

    The trig point at Kinder Low

    I went on a walk today from the village of Hayfield to Kinder Scout and back. It was a beautiful day really. Cold and wintery certainly, but crisp and sunny as well.

    The most difficult part of the walk was the sheer amout of ice that covered a lot of the higher areas of Kinder Scout. The ascent up there was relatively ice free until we got to the last part of William Clough. The ascent up Kinder Scout from the western side was also more difficult than usual due to large amounts of frozen snow.

    Arriving back in Hayfield just before darkness fell, the roads there had become icy as well (It was icy again in the exact same place where I fell of my bike about 3 years ago). All of the extra concentration and effort to stay upright on all of this ice during the day definitely took it’s toll. It felt like a much harder walk and I think I’ll sleep especially soundly tonight.

     

  • Dave 12:04 pm on October 21, 2008 Permalink
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    Nottingham Flickr Group Magpie Mine & Lathkill Dale Walk 

    On Saturday I went for a walk with several members of the Nottingham Flickr Group in the Peak District from Over Haddon to Magpie Mine, Monyash and Lathkill Dale.

    I was very much enjoying the walk and the chat and didn’t actually take many photos at all. Luckily, the other 9 people took plenty of nice ones. There were a lot more cows than there had been when I’d done this route before – and other members of the group took some great pictures of them – particularly Jon’s photo which comes up first in this slideshow of event photos ordred with the most interesting photos first.

    You can browse the photos if you don’t like slideshows: Tagged photos from the walk on Flickr.

     

  • Dave 5:40 pm on September 1, 2008 Permalink
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    Nottingham Flickr Group Peaks Walk 2 – Kinder Scout 

    Windmilling

    Flickrers let out for the day

    Saturday was spent in the Peaks with some of the Nottingham Flickr Group. For me, the walk itself was great fun, good exercise and generally entertaining. The weather was just about overcast and dull all day, so I didn’t find that particularly inspiring as far as taking photos went. I also used too high an ISO for the day so ended up with some fairly noisy photos. I decided to travel light and leave most of my camera gear at home and just take the little Ricoh GX100. The GX100 is a lovely camera but can get quite noisy at higher ISO levels. I have already found through experimentation that I can get away with lower ISO levels in low light thanks to the image stabilization, which is very good. Anyway,the upshot of this was having to use Noise Ninja on the few shots I decided to keep and post to Flickr. Noise Ninja is pretty good and helping out when you’ve made mistakes like this, but is no substitute for doing it right in the first place!

     

  • Dave 7:18 am on August 15, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: gordalescar, malham, Walking, ,   

    Malham and Gordale Scar 

    Malham Cove

    In the summer of 2005, I went for a walk from Malham in Yorkshire to Malham Tarn and then on to Gordale Scar. Along the section from Malham Tarn to Gordale Scar I met numerous people and the ones who stopped to chat said that they thought I was doing it the hard way. I had previously seen a sign that said difficult descent but thought that the path I was on was that difficult descent! When I got to Gordale Scar itself, the walking instruction “descend through waterfall” revealled itself to be somewhat difficult. I stood on a rock and leaned over as far as I could while remaining safe and I just couldn’t see a way down through the waterfall. So, I turned back and took an alternative route.

    On Sunday I was back there, doing more or less the same route but in reverse. So going up Gordale Scar was early in the day. When we got there this time, the rivers leading to it were full to overflowing. We had walked past Janet’s Foss which one of my mates said was just a trickle the last time he saw it – this time it was a raging torent! When we arrived at Gordale Scar, it had a huge amount of water coming down it – lots of clouds of spray and the route up it seemed to be engulfed in it all. So, it was diversion time again. Maybe one day I’ll get there where there in a dry spell and it’ll be ok!

    Yorkshire Weather 1 – Sign 0

    The sign above was near the very exposed Malham Tarn. There were trees planted here with their own dry stone walls encircling them to give them a start in life protected from the wind. This sign seems to have been on the receiving end of the wind and rain up there – it seems to have selectively blown off parts of the Settle wording too!

    Gordale Scar

    If there wasn’t so much water coming down there, you could in theory go straight up the middle of that. I really didn’t fancy it with that much water coming down with so much power though!

     

  • Dave 6:42 pm on June 1, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: langsett, , Walking   

    Langsett War & Peace Walk 

    I went for a walk at Langsett in the Peak District yesterday. The walk was organised by the local rangers and was called ‘War and Peace’. We walked around the reservoir and up in to the hills visiting sites that held some significance in wartime. The rangers were great – very helpful and knowledgeable. I wasn’t sure if this kind of thing would suit me, but it was really good fun.


    We had a look at the site of a shooting range where targets moved long tracks to be used for target practice, shells on the ground left over from this, the site of the foundations for the towers that held up the chain curtain that protected the dam from any possible Dambuster style attack. We also heard stories about what happened in Langsett in wartime. All in all, a great day out – especially when it’s all wrapped up in a 7 mile walk with lovely weather.

    Some members of the group did find some new shells on the hillside and after some discussion with the rangers, some of these were safe to look at, others were deemed to be possibly dangerous and were noted so that they could be dealt with safely later.

    You can find a few more of my photos here and photos from my fellow walkers here, here and possibly at some point here and here (these two aren’t noted for posting their photos quickly though!)

     

     

  • Dave 6:49 pm on May 13, 2008 Permalink
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    Sunny week off 

    Well, I took a week off work. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be sunny and hot all week! I spent just about all of my time off out and about here and there walking and taking photos – so many photos in fact that I’m a little overwhelmed by them all. My normal processing consists of a first pass, process the ones I really like then do a second pass to process any others including ones that I think would require a little extra effort to make presentable. After that, I’ll forget about them and move on.

    So far, you can see on Flickr:

    Worksop to Retford Walk

    White Post Farm Park

    Castleton Sparrowpit Walk

    Each of these sets are likely to expand when I go through the photos again, but they share a constant theme of animals. I’ve probably never seen so many cows as I have this week. This was only partially by design! The Sparrowpit walk was picked partly because I knew I might get to see some Belted Galloways (top picture). I had no idea how big they were – they look like they’re built to last!

     

    Despite being very close to the White Post Farm Park in Farnsfield, I’d never been to it. I had a day between planned walks and the weather was so hot that a quiet day doing something that required little effort was in order. That place was very entertaining though. I don’t think I could handle it on a weekend in summer when it’s full of children, but mid-week, it was lovely.

    Finally, to round this off, is a highland cattle photo. Nicely blowing a raspberry. The picture isn’t that well done, but once again the humour factor used manual override!

     

    • brendadada 8:27 pm on May 13, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Nice coos, as ever. The heavy vignette really adds to that farmers’ auction feel. That top one would be right at home in a country auction saleroom.

  • Dave 7:32 pm on March 27, 2008 Permalink
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    Derwent Edge 

    A change in the weather

    Rocks

    When I got hold of my modified infrared camera last year, I didn’t realise that I was about to experience one of the wettest crappiest summers the UK had ever experienced. The infrared light that makes up the images comes from the sun and that was mostly absent, hidden behind rain clouds. Even so, I did manage to post around 140 photos taken with the camera, so I ought to be thankful that I at least managed to take some photos with it. regardless of the weather.

    Derwent Moor

    A walk at the weekend along Derwent Edge started in bright sunshine and the weather forecast said bright sunshine all day too. I was looking forward to taking some infrared shots with some nice sunshine and clouds. When we got towards the top of Walker’s Clough, it was fairly dark and cloudy and a little later, on the approach to Lost Lad, it was snowing too. There was quite a bit of snow on the ground at this point left over from previous snowfalls.

    Walking along Derwent Edge, it got bitterly cold, more snow, some hailstones and then, very quickly, all of this weather overtook us and disappeared away from us leaving blue sky and sunshine. The photo at the top is of that weather disappearing away from me.

    A friend got a better picture taken of it from a different angle:

    big clouds are headed this way

    big clouds are headed this way by petulant_seraph

    I love weather like that. Normally it happens the opposite way around though – starts off quite nice then you get dumped on royally once you’re somewhere nice and exposed!

     

    • premiump 7:27 am on March 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Wow, what a contrast! Weather is such an unpredictable thing. I can remember being in the car with parents years ago, we were driving to Leeds. It was cats and dogs all the way, then we went under a bridge and it was dry as a bone on the other side. I can remember it like it was yesterday ;)

    • Diana LeRoi-Schmidt 2:03 pm on March 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Wow! The top photo looks like a wave of clouds is coming up over the edge.

      I really like the 3rd photo too!

      Great photography!

    • Bruce 1:47 pm on March 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      I love the imagery in the top one: two people stand exposed, facing stormy weather ahead…

    • brendadada 9:55 pm on March 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Yes, that topmost picture is wonderful. I love the blacks.

  • Dave 7:01 pm on February 19, 2008 Permalink
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    Sherwood to Worksop 

    Burnout 1

    Most of the walks I do are circular, just out of convenience. There isn’t really a good reason not to do linear walks if you can easily join the circle with another mode of transport. I have done this a few times in the Peak District -typically getting a bus or a train out of Edale. Yesterday I walked from Sherwood Forest to Worksop, then got the bus back to complete the loop. Sometimes, walks are circular and in order to make that circle, you may have to include bits that aren’t really that nice. I’ve been on lots of walks where sections just feel like they’re there to join up the good parts! I’m certainly going to think about linear options more.

    The walk from Sherwood to Worksop wasn’t a direct one really. I did meander in Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park on the way. I measured the route I took and it was about 13 miles, but that could be extended significantly. My path through Clumber Park was more or less in one end and out of the other. That place is big enough to add a fairly sizable distance on to a route like this.

    History Repeating

    The shot above was taken in Sherwood Forest near the beginning of my walk – and is far more pleasant than the burnt out car pictured at top. I do like the photos of the car, even if I don’t like the fact that it’s been stolen,torched and dumped in the forest.

    More photos from the walk

    I was travelling light again, and just took the Ricoh GX100 with me. I love that camera much more than I expected to. I thought it’d be a good camera to have, but I didn’t expect to love it so much. It’s just so nice to use. I can’t believe I’ve only had it 10 days or so. It feels so familiar and comfortable. I remembered this Gadget Show video I watched before deciding to buy the camera (after much deliberation and eliminating possible candidates from a list) in which the host appears to love the camera as much as I do. I’ll make a proper post about that after the ‘honeymoon period’ though!

     

  • Dave 6:34 pm on February 19, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: bamfordedge, , , Walking   

    Bamford Edge 

    Bamford Edge [120/365]

    On Saturday I went for walk in the Peak District with friends. We started at the foot of Stanage Edge, walked along Bamford Edge and then back along the length of Stanage. You can see a map I knocked up using Google Maps (it’s hand drawn so don’t expect deadly accuracy!)

    Considering it’s February, it was another lovely day. A little bit cooler than last weekend, but that just made it nice and comfortable for walking. I’d never been along Bamford Edge before and I really enjoyed the route up there from Stanage Edge and the rest of the walk along that section before getting to Cut Throat Bridge on the A57. I’ll definitely have to go back there in summer I think. It was very hazy on Saturday and it would be nice to take some photos with blue skies and fluffy clouds for a change!

    Full set of photos here

     

  • Dave 7:11 pm on February 10, 2008 Permalink
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    Kinder Scout in February feels like summer 

    Expression

    I was expecting the weather to be cold but sunny yesterday. Instead it was very warm and it could easily have been a summer day. It was only a month ago when I was on the other side of Kinder Scout walking through snow that came up to my knees in places. The following photo is one of tricky’s which gives you a better indication of the weather…

    Chill

    Later in the day on the homeward stretch, it was still nice and warm even as the sun started to disappear. The length of the shadows at that stage surprised me somewhat.

    Ovine Abduction Incident [113/365]

    After getting back to Edale, we sat in the pub garden and noticed what looked to be a very colourful and beautiful sunset behind the pub. I didn’t go chasing it so I have no pictures of it. Fellow Flickrer Primed Minister did capture it over near Ladybower Reservoir though (click on the image and have a look at his other images if you’ve not seen them before).

    Sunset at Ladybower

    The rest of my photos from the day

     

    • Primed Minsiter 12:26 pm on February 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Just a quick note to say thanks for the above link Dave. Ultimately with this photography lark it’s all about being in the right place at the right time. Had we not taken a ‘wrong turn’ as such I probably wouldn’t have got that shot of the reservoir. So I have my son to thank for taking us down a different path. :)

    • Diana 9:19 pm on February 15, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Love the pink sunset and sheep with shadows.

      Tricky’s photo is awesome of the people sitting in the sun in the afternoon. Incredible golden light. I’d rather be there than here right now :)

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