http://bleaklow.com:80/tags/higher shelf stones/ My opinions may be incorrect, but they are my own en Alan Burlison Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:50:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://bleaklow.com/images/misc/logo.gif http://bleaklow.com:80/ http://bleaklow.com:80/2004/05/05/kernel_engineers_in_the_great_outdoors.html <p> Last Wednesday Gary and myself went for a walk to see the aircraft wreck at Higher Shelf Stones - he'd seen the earlier writeup on my blog and wanted to go and see it. The weather was a bit iffy - visibility down to 20m once we got up to the top of Crooked Clough, with a very strong wind. We found the trig point at Higher Shelf Stones, and took the obligatory photos to prove we'd been there. <p> <table cellspacing="10"><tr> <td> <a href="images/2004/gary_higher_shelf.jpeg" onclick="window.open('images/2004/gary_higher_shelf.jpeg','popup','width=660,height=660,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no'); return false" class="thumbnailLink"><img src="images/2004/thumbnails/gary_higher_shelf.jpeg" alt="Higher Shelf Stones" class="thumbnailImage"/></a> </td><td> <a href="images/2004/alan_higher_shelf.jpeg" onclick="window.open('images/2004/alan_higher_shelf.jpeg','popup','width=660,height=660,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no'); return false" class="thumbnailLink"><img src="images/2004/thumbnails/alan_higher_shelf.jpeg" alt="Higher Shelf Stones" class="thumbnailImage"/></a> </td></table> <p> The wreck is a few hundred metres north of the trig, so we wandered over to have a look - Gary has some photos <a href="http://www.garypennington.net/blogs/content/archives/000031.html">over here</a> in his blog. The rest of the walk across to Dowstone Clough, Dog Rock, Torside Castles then off over Glossop Low was all in the clag, which was a pity for Gary as we got to see bugger all. For me it was a good navigation exercise :-) As we were walking over towards Glossop Low a grouse shot out from under Gary's feet, half a second later and he'd have trodden on it. It had built it's nest right on the line of the path, and was sitting on a clutch of about a dozen eggs. Just proves what incredibly stupid birds they are. We didn't take a photo as it was pretty cold and windy and we didn't want the eggs to get chilled. See how environmentally sensitive we are :-) <p> Friends Peak District http://bleaklow.com:80/2004/05/05/kernel_engineers_in_the_great_outdoors.html#comments http://bleaklow.com:80/2004/05/05/kernel_engineers_in_the_great_outdoors.html Wed, 05 May 2004 10:26:31 GMT