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<\/p>\nIn honour of John D\u2019s birthday, there was a clamour of Happy Birthdays at the Dennis Knoll car park to start our Warts\u2019 run. For his pleasure, we planned to not only visit the nearby stone circle, but also to go into rather than around the brim, of the Bamford Edge quarry. So, with this route in mind, about eight of us, including the very welcome return of Kev S and Phil C, we set off towards a curious wall end which had no corner or gateway; the wall just ended in open moorland. Surprisingly, this small feature was found without any serious bother, ready for our precision navigation to the stone circle about 100m or so away. Instead of an in-file formation, we manoeuvred, military style, into a spread-out and in-line formation for our search of the circle. Despite this arrangement and the illumination of eight torches, it took a little time to find the rather stubby (30cm high?) stones. There was no circle dancing around to celebrate, in Druid fashion, John\u2019s birthday although I suspect he would have been quite relieved.<\/p>\n
The next treat was to scramble down into the quarry where, this time we did form a circle around a large spherical boulder for a rendering of Happy Birthday much to John\u2019s embarrassment. Another scramble this time out of the quarry brought us to Bamford Edge which always gives a pretty view of the lights in the Hope valley though what the Hope Valley thought of the strange unpretty head torch lights on Great Tor on the Edge, I\u2019m not quite sure. A short distance away is the fixed point of a wall corner for the start of our next navigational challenge to Jarvis Clough cabin. The shout was a 35\u2070 bearing which we thought we would follow but, master navigator Andy had another plan up his sleeve to extend tonight\u2019s treats to include the swamp under Crow Chin and to then follow the Clough down to the cabin which thankfully is in fine fettle. <\/p>\n
What we actually did (red line) and what we planned (blue line) is shown below!<\/p>\n
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Thanks to both Tom and John for the map.<\/p>\n
Our climb from the cabin was uplifted by the elegance and workmanship of at least one of the shooting butts on the way up to the ruined hut on Stanage Edge. Anxiety was now beginning to creep in as the call of the Yorkshire Bridge Inn (or was it the beer) could be felt and heard, so the descent to the car park seemed a long way to the extent that some thought we might have actually gone below sea level. Clearly, we were delirious!<\/p>\n
Fortunately, it was only short car ride to the pub where the possibility of a future Hathersage treat, this time underground, was proposed, but significant horticultural modifications to the route made previous visits look like a mere safari, somewhat like tonight!<\/p>\n
Again, we had a wonderful Warts\u2019 wander, thanks to all!<\/p>\n
Graham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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