Having acquired a baby during the post-Christmas lockdown, we made the most of our support bubble by heading to the Peak District for a week of the Easter holidays. It felt somewhat like being let out of prison. We probably tried to do too much in our excitement and didn’t come home any less tired than we went, but it was fun…
Setting off on the Bradwell Edge loop, having completely misjudged the temperature 
Bradwell and cement works 
Sunny but cold at the playground (diversion on the way home) 
Somehow managed to get a parking space at the Surprise View car park on Easter Sunday and enjoyed scrambling over gritstone boulders on the way to Mother Cap. 
Snack time 
Back through the woods 
Grandma and Jess being aeroplanes 
Millstones at Lawrencefield 
Beautiful woodland 
Slide at Hathersage playground. We did about 30 consecutive loops on this… 
A rare picture of 2-month old Claire being peacefully awake 
Fun in the leaves and logs at chilly Longshaw 
Jess had a morning out with her grandparents while Dave and I took Claire up Win Hill (her first trig point) 
A few snatched summit photos before our phones died in the bitter cold!
After a rather slippy gritstone scrambling experience, we bought Jess some grippier trainers. She tried them out at Bradgate Park…
Yellow Van Mountaineering 