I parked by Moorahill Farm where there is lots of space on the grass verges and no one seems to mind. Then walked along minor roads up to Rough Hill and on up the shoulder the map calls The Pen onto the top of Loadpot Hill. Easily south then down the ridge on the old Roman road to Wether Hill then down over Low Cop and the shoulder the map calls the Hause.

A day on the quiet Back o’Skiddaw hills partly with a view to scoop up recently promoted Nuttall, Little Lingy Hill. Aka Miller Moss. Parked in Fellside. A steady trudge leads to the friendly top of High Pike with its park bench and its viewfinder keeping the trig point company. Then it's easy high level wandering over the tops. Hare Stones. Great Lingy Hill. Little Lingy Hill. There’s a path down into the Dale Beck valley on the north side of Clints Gill then a track up the valley and over the side of Hay Knott back to Fellside.  

With Ed. At Hulme End there is a pay and display car park. But the coffee shop people let you park for free as long as you like in their car park so long as you buy something three. Which we did. We walked over fields to Westside Mill then zigzagged up to Ecton Hill. Then down and up to grab both tops of Wetton Hill. Then down to Wetton Mill where there is another nice coffee shop. Then back up the valley to the car. 

I went for a day of not very energetic Ethel collecting in the far west of the Peak District. First I did Merryton Low, very easily, from a handy parking spot by Blake Mere.  Then Hen Cloud, again quite easily from a handy parking spot on the road to the west. Then Ramshaw Rocks from a handy parking spot near the bend in the minor road at the foot of its obvious south ridge. A nobler and more energetic soul would have combined these three hills into a single longer walk and not used a car to get between then. But I am getting old and the flesh is weak.   

​You can park by Pilsbury Lodge from where it is an easy stroll up Pilsbury Hill. So I did.  




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​I climbed Carder Low from Hartington and walking up Hide Lane. The summit is awkward to reach from that side so I ended up walking around it  on the public footpath to the south then up from the public footpath to the west. 

I walked to the top of White Low from Crowden and then walked back down again.




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I walked up to the top of Snailsden Pike End from Linshaws Road and then walked back down again.
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​A short walk in glorious weather. From Sheldon up past the mine and down into Kirlkdale across fields and down an overground path past an old barn. Then over the road and up onto Bole Hill. The summit is somewhere hard to say where- in a big rectangular field by some woods. When I was here before in April 2011 the trig point was looking healthy and upright. Now it is toppled, a fallen soldier. There are a lot of Bole Hills. One on Wormhill Moor east of Buxton also has a trig point, one to the east of Spitewinter in East Derbyshire, two in Sheffield, one by Graves Park and one in Walkley/Crooks on whose slopes I live. There is a Bole Hill Plantation near Whirlow and a Bole Hill Quarry on the Longshaw Estate. If you are after exclusivity call your hill some other name. It means a place where lead is smelted apparently. I retraced my steps to past the mine but made a little detour towards the village to bypass some rather frisky bullocks. 
 

There are some pleasant walks in Derbyshire that aren't the Peak District. I parked in Grassmoor Country Park and walked south on the Five Pits Trail. This branches at Wolfie Pond and I went left towards Holmewood. Round Wlliamthrope Ponds and back west to where the OS map showed a path going west across fields to join the Trail again. This was a t confusing as since the mp was made someone had built a whole estate of new houses on what were once field. But there was still a way through and I followed it and so back onto the trail and back to Grassmoor.