Kinder from Hayfield

Start: Lower part of Valley Road in Hayfield (Directions if needed: turn off A624 into Hayfield village, at the top of the rise the road bends to the left – take right turn into Fishers Bridge/Highgate Road, and then almost immediately left into Valley Road… follow it down to parking space on side of road between two footpaths crossing the Kinder River). If you get to Oscar the owl, you need to stop!

GR: SK 043 866

W3W: ///scared.timed.pine

Start time: 09:45

Route: Kinder Reservoir, Sandy Heys, Kinder Gates, Fairbrook, Blackden Brook, Upper Tor, Crowden Tower, Edale Cross, Coldwell Clough.

Distance: 21km /13 mi, 800m ascent, … and incl a couple of cross-country stretches.

 

13 miles, moderate