Buxton Circular via the Dragon's Back walk
Remote and quiet Upper Dove Valley, combining extreme natural beauty with the more esoteric beauty of industrial sites. Go over or past the very unique Dragon's Back
History
This is a list of previous times this walk has been done by the club (since Jan 2010). For more recent events (since April 2015), full details are shown.
Date | Option | Post | # | Weather |
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Sat, 03-Sep-22 | Saturday Walk - Buxton Circular via the Dragon's Back [Buxton Trip] [New Walk] | 20 | cloudy |
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Sat, 03-Sep-22
8 walkers met at the station, with 10 more (plus a dog) joining en route from their accommodation, incl. 5 new arrivals. We kept mostly together to Chrome Hill, where 14 went over the top and 4 took the easier route to the side of it, only to end up on too high a path which ended up being steep to precipitous. So they actually took longer than the others.
On to Parkhouse Hill, where 9 took the scrambly route over the top, 4 the easy route and 5 the medium one. This splitting into sub-grouos had the advantage that we arrived at the charming Packhorse Inn in manageable group sizes. Lunch or drinks in the garden for all. 2 of the scramblers had also walked the extension over High Wheeldon in the knowledge though that they would take the bus from Longnor in any case. As did two others.
2 had sat out today's walk completely, 1 other had spent the morning in Tissington and joined us in Crowdicote though to walk on with a subgroup to Longnor to also take the bus from there, as far as is known. 1 surprise appearance was made at the pub by SW London's most prominent SWC walker, who did not quite have a private car and chauffeur but came by taxi, just for the lunch. She didn't walk, but I'll count her anyway, just for the effort made: 20 plus a dog
Later on, 2 explored Dowel Cave, all 7 metres of it, tight and towards the end very tight, so just the man with headtorch went that far. It was cloudy all day but without rain, bar a few drops as we reached Buxton, where people started to peel off to go to their accommodation. Downtown at 17.30 for the through walkers.
Birds: kestrels, swallows, ravens, a skylark, buzzards, goldfinches.