Walking The Pennine Way When I Was Eleven - Stage 1 (Edale to Red Brook)
Start: Edale Finish: Red Brook Distance Covered: 6 miles After making our preparations the summer holidays arrived and we were ready to go. So it was that on Saturday 14th July 1979 my parents, sister and myself set off from our home in Nottinghamshire at 2 o'clock. At around half past three we reached Edale and at 3.55 said goodbye to my mother as we began our epic trek along the Pennine Way. My father had decided that it should be a gentle introduction to the walk so the first day was a relatively easy six miles. The previous year we had walked across the plateau near Kinder Scout. I remember it being a real struggle going over the peat cloughs and heather and hadn't been relishing the prospect of renewing the acquaintance. The return visit wasn't anything like as difficult and I think we must have avoided the worst of it. It was still quite testing terrain to face first up and after two hours reaching the Kinder plateau it took ano...