We started from the National Trust's Hay Wood car park and followed the path along Froggatt Edge. It was rather a dull, cloudy day ...
... and there weren't many walkers about.
Some of the gritstone boulders up there are really intriguing ...
A mile or so along this path another path cuts back sharply to the right, below the Edge. Here discarded and unfinished millstones lie around on the ground ...
We walked down the hill into the village of Froggatt and walked along Spooner Lane. Beside the lane there were these fresh green leaves starting to push through ...
Spring was only just starting to make its presence felt and looking back [from July] everything looks so bare.
The wood betwee Froggatt and Grindleford is delightful at any time of the year.
There's a pond part way through the wood and, somewhere, I have a slide showing me swinging across the pond ... no, really.
Shortly after this we took a path that rose up the hillside to see where it went ...
... it dropped back downhill to join up with the path we had left ten or fiteen minutes later.
We reached the Peak and Northern signpost at Grindleford Bridge.
We were on the way back by now and turned eastward, uphill, towards Hay Wood car park. On the way up the hill another signpost gave us an option to go one way ... or the other ...
The climb up the hill continued though I don't think it was quite as bad as this photograph might suggest ...
Date of walk ~ 6th April 2010
Length of walk ~ 4 miles
Total walked so far in 2010 ~ 59 1/2 miles
Total walked since 1st September 2009 ~ 189 1/2 miles
13 of 2010
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