Light on the Edge.
The North Edge of Kinder Scout is a fascinating landscape and it is also a fair challenge to get up here.
I underestimated the scale of my evenings endeavour having set off from the bottom of Snake Pass and scaled the 1000 foot of height up to the Kinder Ridge by the Seal Stones. This left me with quite a long traverse along the escarpment to the Fair Brook Gulley and then onto Fairbrook Naze and then finally here to The Edge. By the time I got here the light was as good as it got and I had quite along way back to descend Fair Brook Gulley in the dark and get back down to the Valley. So I spent a short while here before heading back along the ridge line.
This shot shows the sun setting over Manchester to the West with the North Edge of the Kinder Ridge lit with the setting sun, falling down to Featherbed Moss below. There are some fabulous shapely rock formations all along this ridge line commanding views away to the summit of Snake Pass to the North.
Anyway I set off back shortly after I took this and in the 4 hours I was out here I never saw another person. About half a mile from here walking back, I disturbed a Short Eared Owl and it set about swooping at me as I made my way back towards Fairbrook Naze. Thankfully no harm came to either party and I made the rest of my long hazardous descent without incident.
Light on the Edge.
The North Edge of Kinder Scout is a fascinating landscape and it is also a fair challenge to get up here.
I underestimated the scale of my evenings endeavour having set off from the bottom of Snake Pass and scaled the 1000 foot of height up to the Kinder Ridge by the Seal Stones. This left me with quite a long traverse along the escarpment to the Fair Brook Gulley and then onto Fairbrook Naze and then finally here to The Edge. By the time I got here the light was as good as it got and I had quite along way back to descend Fair Brook Gulley in the dark and get back down to the Valley. So I spent a short while here before heading back along the ridge line.
This shot shows the sun setting over Manchester to the West with the North Edge of the Kinder Ridge lit with the setting sun, falling down to Featherbed Moss below. There are some fabulous shapely rock formations all along this ridge line commanding views away to the summit of Snake Pass to the North.
Anyway I set off back shortly after I took this and in the 4 hours I was out here I never saw another person. About half a mile from here walking back, I disturbed a Short Eared Owl and it set about swooping at me as I made my way back towards Fairbrook Naze. Thankfully no harm came to either party and I made the rest of my long hazardous descent without incident.