S'Derbyshire Festival of Walks.

The festival started Saturday 16th of May. We met at the YHA building at Moira. After a little talk from a couple of guests we set off. There were three different walk taking place at the same time. Pictured left is a group who took the "short walk" about one hour in duration. We met as our paths nearly, but did not cross. I joined the group on the "5 mile" walk as I needed to see new walks. Below are a couple of pictures of some of the terrain we had to go through. Note the "Duck boards" there are several broken

I was disappointed to see that some locals had light fires (there was one smouldering as we passed by) in the woods also a lot of litter was left, some of it broken glass. I can only think that is must be the younger element of society doing this. It is a great shame that these people have not been taught how to respect the countryside, & the dangers of fires in the woods!
As you can see, there is plenty for fire to get a hold of
In all the walk took around 2 hours to complete including rest/comfort break. This was taken at Moira Furnace









We were fortunate with the weather as the showers did not come to much. The sky was grey as you can see but the temperature for walking was perfect.
I got second placing for this photo. Here's the results of the competition