With Teemu and Vilma. one of my favourite walks with two of my favourite people. I have lost count how many times I have done this. Park by bridge in Bakewell. Down Coombes Road. Left at Alpacas. Over golf course. Up through trees. Over Calton Pasture, that magical place. Through New Piece Wood. Down to Edensor. (Lots of fallow deer around here today.) Down River to Garden Centre. Up to Calton Houses. Right at Plantation and across south bit Calton Pasture and so home.  Then we drove to the Crispin at Great Longstone for food. Lovely day. 

The 1:25,000 OS map - but not the 1:50,000 - shows a path approaching Hob Hurst's House from a minor road a couple of kilometres to the east. A little north of where this starts, just round a corner, is a place you can park. So I did. Down to start of path where a stile gives access to path. It's a pretty scruffy path but its a path. Pretty muddy today but this spring everywhere is. From Hob Hurst's House I walked along the top of the moor to the summit of Beeley Moor where there is a grouse butt. There was a vestigial path some of the time but it was rough going then more of the same to the trig point, From the trig point a few yards leads to the road which can be followed back got the start. But to reach itt there is a double barbed wire fence and wall to cross. There is no gate or stile or any other break until the stile I started at and at my age doing gymnastic things on barbed wire fences is no longer so easy as it was, The wall has points of weaknesses where it ids damaged. The fence does not. There is a path of sorts follows the fence o the moorland side. I followed it for a bit but got fed up and did a little gymnastics. Thence an easy walk on tarmac back to car.        

​There is a place to park in Perry Dale halfway between Peak Forest and Perryfoot opposite the driveway leading to Slacksdale Farm. It was a easy walk from here to the top of Gautries Hill, up the road a bit, through the woods on a footpath and then up across a big field full of sheep. I got back to where I parked cutting directly across the stragely empty fields to Nether Barn. I went down the road a bit then through a gate ad up a track to the west ed of a narrow strip of woodland halfway up Eldon Hill. On past the sinister gash that is Eldon Hole and so up Eldon Hill. A few sheep around. No cows. And no people. It had looked busy driving through Castleton but up here it was only me. Walking down towards Old Dam I saw where all the cows were, cooped up in barns still. I did see a young calf in a field by the village with some goats for friends. And coming out the village back towards my parked car a couple of llamas.  Llamas 2, cows 1. A rare win for team llama