The
Kinder Scout
Plateau

the first pictures are of a DoE training day
around the Hayfield horseshoe in July 1999

 

Cooking hot drinks
on the campsite
the evening before
A few short hours later
and we approach
wild country on the edge
of the Plateau
The group was from
Southfield's School
Kettering
approaching our first top
some time was needed
to establish our
EXACT
position
Three girls on a trig point !!! three girls on a checkpoint !!
Then
one instructor
a use for a checkpoint !
Our first
good view of the downfall
kinder downfall
The feeder stream
for the downfall
top kinder downfall
famous for its peat bogs

those that have not been
here before not realising
how lucky they were
to find them this dry

the peat plateau
but some still had trouble
keeping upright
kinder's famous peat haggs ! - NOT THE GIRLS - the ground
more party games
on trig points
kite flying on Kinder Scout
we had finally
found a use for her

a kite flying gnome

no, no, no
we are going to the camp site
in Hayfield
not Edale.

(they did not have these signs
when I walked the Pennine way)

the Pennine way

 


The first pictures are of a DoE training day
around the Hayfield horseshoe in July 1999

With Southfields School, Kettering

Link to Duke of Edingburgh Award Page

Link to Nigel Spencer Training

 

the DoEaward

 

 

Two other & older
Kinder pictures include

Kinder Scout plateau Kinder Scout
bog trotting

DoE
end of April 1999

across the plateau On a drier spot on
the  Kinder Plateau

 

And
Kinder Scout in Winter
during a "Nigel Spencer Training"
weekend staying in Hayfield

 

 

winter conditions on Kinder Scout

Kinder downfall

in rare January snow

up under the downfall

Kinder downfall

in even rarer January snow
&
sun
(picture was actually taken same day as above picture)

 

 

 

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