I went to Derbyshire with two groups of Grammar School students who were doing their Silver expedition. They had to spend seven hours per day walking and working towards their "purpose" for the three days. They also have to cook for and take care of themselves, spending two nights in tents. One group had seven youngsters and the other six. Both bunches worked well together and did very well. On Sunday they walked a circuit from Edale to a camp site near Hope via Mam Tor and Lose Hill. I got one of them to take the picture of me on top of Lose Hill.
On Monday they were supposed to meet me at High Neb which is one of the hill tops along Stanage Edge. I was up there some three hours in the cloud, cold and wet and only saw the two adult supervisors for the groups. While we were at High Neb, one of them got a phone call from the first group. They had decided that because the weather was so bad, they would walk along the bottom of the hills and were already at their camp site. We gave up on seeing the second group at about 4pm and walked down out of the cloud. When we were about a kilometre from where I had left the school bus we could hear voices. This turned out to be the second group. All were safe and well.
Yesterday they had quite a long walk along a National Footpath that took them past Chatsworth House to the car park where I had the minibus and trailer waiting. Both groups were in good spirits when they reached the bus and said they had enjoyed the experience. They had doen really well, especially considering the amount of rain that they had to put up with. We got back to school at a little after 6pm, the lads made sure the minibus was clean & tidy and then they went home. A "job" well done.
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