I travelled on the 272 bus from Sheffield to the bus stop for Bamford Station and made my way over to Thornhill, utilising a short footpath that I hadn't previously used, I'm always on the lookout for these...there were a couple of humorous signs.
I then took the path that goes alongside the sunken lane to Aston. Before reaching Aston I cut across the fields to Hope and then followed the course of Peakshole Water upstream to Castleton.
A real test for my knees today; up on the moors but staying to a well-defined and quite easygoing footpath. I travelled to Fox House and headed south along Froggatt Edge to the bus stop at Curbar Crossroads.
Early on though, as I was walking through the Longshaw Estate my right knee started to hurt and so I had to strap it up, the first time I've needed to do this in many months.
A few minutes later I heard a stag bellowing, it was only a few yards away and was very loud. Despite being relatively near the zoom on my camera was insufficient to capture any close up images.
The Grouse Inn is situated on a short stretch of road I needed to walk down.
I briefly studied my map at Curbar Gap and decided that it would be an easier walk to the bus stop at Curbar Croosroads via the Wellington Monument rather than going down to Baslow Nether End.
