Peak experience

An expedition far from home - Leanne and I walked from Hen Cloud, via the Roaches to Lud's Church and I seem to have taken photos mainly of trees, which is hardly representation of this hike!

Here is a video of the walk - sort of - in very different weather!

I like it because it tells some of the stories about Lud's Church - which is not a church. One being that this is the Green Chapel where Sir Gawain met the Green Knight!

What a magical place!

I loved seeing some lovely old twisted Beech trees at the start.

And what felt like an ancient wood near Lud's Church.

Another Beech. Where the sheep are no longer grazing, it looks like the heath will transition into a woodland of Oak, Rowan and Holly in a few decades, which is exciting.

The Peak Disctrict is called the Peak District for the peaks... and I seem to have failed to get any of the views.

We did actually stand on top of some of these rocky tors (though they seemed to me like the tors on Dartmoor, it appears they are geologically quite different) - but I didn't share the experience.

It was a lovely day and we laughed a lot - about getting lost and about the guy who showed us the map at which point we realised we were not at the half way point of the walk, but less than a quarter of the way through. We'd made that quarter longer by an unexpected detour around Hen Cloud at the start.

We look red-faced and wind-blown - Leanne's Achilles is bugging her and I have a blister on my toe. None of that diminished the joy of the day - which we ended (before the drive home) with dinner at The Reform. Yum.