Edale

As usual at this time of year, I'm out with the students doing D of E. This year we had a few more that in previous years, so had to get a bit more creative with their routes. We decided that the best thing was to wait at the top of Crowden Clough and they would all come past us. Great in theory, not quite so good in practice.

Firstly, every D of E group in Britain was on top of Kinder on Saturday. And spotting which ones are yours from a distance is quite hard.

Secondly, not every group actually managed to come past us!

Thirdly, I'd failed to take into consideration that one of the groups would find us easily and then afterwards get badly lost. Never mind, they assured me that they would be fine following the path across Kinder. After all, if it's on the map then it must be there.....honest!

Despite these challenges, and the 10Kg tent that one student brought with him, we survived.