Walk Report - November mist

October's walk, Led by Mike Dowsett, was delayed to the start of November because of Storm Boelo. Eight of us, including new prospective member Zia, set off from Barber Booth and made our way up (checks notes...) to the left of the car park soon to find any brightness disappearing into mist and gloom. It stayed this way for the next five hours interspersed with some light drizzle. Lovely!

Mike had a nice fine stomp lined up for us in a loop around the Kinder plateau taking in no less than three 'Ethels' (look it up). I think we ate our sarnies and drank thermos tea by the Edale Stone. It wasn't even that cold either. Later we made our way down into some late afternoon sunshine just in time for it to get dark in a 'perfect timing' sort of way and everyone said they had a great time and thanked Mike for his efforts. Even new chap Zia said he would be back.

As a footnote (pun intended), my feet had been wet for most of the day as my cheapish summer boots bought in the Dolomites back in the summer finally disintegrated. Luckily, the Outside shop in Hathersage was open until 6pm so a quickish visit there on the way home furnished me with a new pair of Salewa MTN Trainer Mid GTX boots (£200 to you sir). The mug of tea and toasted teacake in the cafe was the icing on the cake so to speak.

Thanks to all who came along for your excellent company. Phil