A weekend walking in the Peak District comes highly recommended, so it was time for me to give it a go. We headed to Castleton, a small town in the Vale of Hope (aww lovely). We chose the Kinder Scout climb, first making our way up a dry(ish) river bed to the peaks plateau (the highest in the Peak District). There were lots of people following the same route (although apparently nothing like the ‘highway’ it is in summer). However, once the ascent is made, people disperse around the plateau, which is basically a bog. The peat bog on the Kinder Scout plateau is amazing. I’ve never seen anything like it. I picture a bog as one big flat area, but this is covered with deep trenches (and when I say deep, I mean deeper than
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