Present - Trish Cranston, Dave Wylie, Dave Dillon.

Bumped into - Mike Graves.

The day started off with rain and then more rain, in Manchester at least. Set off, feeling the 'guilt of the meet leader' pressed heavily on the shoulders, otherwise wouldn't have got out of bed.

Still looking dank in Hayfield, as parked up near the bacon butty van. No actual technical rain, at this point. Tottered up Williams Clough through a patch of light drizzle. Crested the col and bumped into DW, come over from the other side. Headed up onto Kinder and Mill Hill rocks, which were dry, bone dry. Seems there's some bizarre weather system forming clouds on the Hayfield side of Kinder, filling the entire Cheshire plain with nasty weather. Anyway, we bouldered our way along to the downfall, revelling on this strip of dry land perched on the edge of the weathery abyss. Found MG leading a party of aspirants up and over Kinder.

I must confess that rain did get us at about six o'clock back down in Hayfield. Hey, you can't win them all.

As an ongoing project of looking at rock along the Pennine Way, this meet will explore the delights situated between Mill Hill buttress (SK067898) and Kinder downfall (SK083889) including, but not limited to, Western Buttresses, Kinder Buttress and Annexe Buttress. I expect to be surveying Mill Hill Buttress at 10:30, by which time the sun should be warming the finishing jugs. Public transport users, travelling on Sunday, are exempt from this gem and may proceed directly to Upper Western Buttress.

Approach:

From the Snake, Either - start at summit and follow Pennine Way, past lump called Mill Hill onto rocks called Mill Hill. Or - if raining or low cloud, from Snake Inn, cross river Ashop, go up Fair Brook, take west (270) bearing at edge path to arrive just north of the Downfall, progress right to Mill Hill rocks. From Hayfield, follow Kinder road, keep left of Kinder reservoir, up Williams Clough, turn right onto Pennine Way which is identifiable in mist by it's flag stones and move along to Mill Hill rocks.

Any other approaches (e.g. from Edale, Kirk Yetholm, etc.) will gain extra points and a more prominent position in the meet report.

Bus service:

358 from Stockport 09:05 to Hayfield 09:55 on Sundays, return until midnight.

373 from Manchester Piccadilly 09:00 to the Snake summit 10:08, Snake Inn 10:15, return 17:43 from Snake Inn. 5 pound ticket. NOTE: It would seem the 373 is still running, so it's still a possible approach.

Train:

Manchester Piccadilly 07:45 to Edale 09:49, return 22:23

Car:

Hayfield, Edale: car parking - bring lots of money, more than five pounds.