Bowden Bridge car park, the logical starting point for this walk, we were staying at The Sportsman Inn just along the road

Sheena and Tim looked to be enjoying the wet weather!

An old sheep wash at Booth, they used this wash the peat of the fleeces before shearing the sheep

The entrance to Kinder Reservoir

The weather looked to be improving a little as we started along the reservoir path

The cloud had even lifted of the top of Kinder Scout, well for a while!

You can just make out the waterfall at Kinder Downfall on the skyline

The start of the very wet and muddy climb up William Clough

Some of the many small cascades in the gill

Sheena coming up William Clough, note the water running down the path, that's how wet it was underfoot

Looking back towards the reservoir from the top of William Clough

The cloud starting to descend again as soon we we reached here, the wind and rain also seemed to increase as well

We were now on the Pennine Way, left would take us towards Snake Pass

Today we were heading right up onto Kinder Scout

Some of the weird rock formations we passed, there was probably loads more we just couldn't see them

The top of the waterfall at Kinder Downfall, not much to see here either

Sheena and Tim waiting for me to find a safe place to cross the river

The weather hadn't go ant better by the time we reached Red Brook

A very wet me and Tim at Red Brook

We decided to drop down off the tops here and take the lower path to Kinderlow End

After dropping a couple of hundred feet we reached the cloud base and views improved a little

It still looked horrid on the tops so we were glad to have decided on the lower path today

I decided that if I did a 'Sun Dance' the rain might stop?

Sheena and Tim thought I'd gone crazy and walked off and left me to it!

Kinderlow End, here we started back towards Hayfield

The cloud was still clinging to the tops

As we descended through the fields the rain eventually stopped, but I don't think it was my dancing that did it!

Typical, the cloud also lifted off the tops as well, why couldn't it have done that an hour ago?

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