A 2-day backpack of the south-western tip of the Kinder area and around the western fringes of Bleaklow, visiting our last remaining unclimbed 500m Dewey top in the Dark Peak, culminating at Higher Shelf Stones and returning to Glossop via the Shelf Moor path.
The first backpack of this year, having done one single-day walk to assess our weakening capabilities, we designed this route as a rather easy trial overnighter with almost the lowest weight of kit possible for a backpack. The ascent on the first day in the sheltered heat of William Clough was slow and arduous as expected but improved considerably on the second day ascending to Higher Shelf Stones, a very encouraging result.
This trip included a Saturday for day 2, not a choice we wanted on a sunny forecast in the very popular Peak District but the only available slot between appointments. We chose what we thought would be a relatively little used path for the return leg but we were spectacularly wrong.
Anyway it was great to be out with the tent in superb weather and a welcome morale booster to show we could still do it, at least on a very modest scale.