A Deryshire, not the Peak District, walk for a change. Parked up in Bolsover then headed down Castle Street to the Castle gates. Left down Castle Lane then into some parkland past the ruined Conduit Houses. Then downhill and south then west to Carr Vale where I turned let at a little fishing lake and down the Stockley Trial. I left this after about a kilometre and followed a path across fields to Palterton, Up past the Elms farm then over another field - populated by docile cows - to Hillstow and back into Bolsover. Not very strenuous but the surgeon said anew it easy. 

60th birthday. What a dismal thing. To console myself I drove to Holmfirth and parked in the carpark by Brownhill Reservoir. I went for a reccey to see was the track on the map alongside Ridge Wood Reservoir open to the public. It was covered with sigs making it abundantly clear it was not. So I took the high path that follows the top of the woods above Ramsden Clough. I followed this as far as Ruddle Clough where I turned left and headed up onto the plateau and the top of Elbow End. A long windy path leads from here to the trig point on Snailsden End. 

My next target was Cook's Study Hill. The sensible thing here would have been to retrace my steps along the south edge of Snailsden Pike End and then go north. But I was tempted by what looked like a vestigial path to head directly for the reservoir. This didn't go that well and my feet got very wet. After climbing Cook's Study Hill I followed the road north as far as White Gate where a path leads easily back to where I started. It is lovely up here o n the northern edge of the Peak District with views across to Castle Hill.   

With Martin, Tommy and Joe. Parking in Appletreewick is not abundant. But we found some and followed the path by the caravan site down to the river where lots of people were splashing about happily. We followed the river and then field paths up through Skyreholme to Parceval Hall where we stopped for a break at the tea room. Wea then headed up to and up Troller's Gill. This was less fun than it might have been as the place was infested with the worst plague of midges I ever experienced outside Scotland. But we made it to the top and back over the beautiful upland that is Appletreewick Pasture.