Ten Great Peak District Walks – Kinder Scout

Personal experiences

Back in the day (many years ago) when I was a single man surfing the pages of online dating sites, I decided that if I ever got as far as a third date, going on this walk would be it. It was a winter’s day in 2005, the weather wasn’t great, and I led this young lady up to the heights of Kinder Scout. She didn’t complain about the cold and wet, and she coped marvelously with the ascent of Crowden Clough. At the top we stopped to have a picnic and supped our hot chocolate from the flask. As we looked over the view of the Hope Valley in front of us – she said to me “this is GREAT”. And that was the first moment that I thought, this girl is a keeper! As it turned out, I only got to a third date once because I married her!