Tag: Peak District National Park

This year, one of the things that I want to start doing more than anything else is hiking.

I have always enjoyed walking but have never really taken it any further than chosing to walk to a destination instead of taking the bus.

Since I am currently living close to the Peak District while getting my degree, I decided that there was no more excuses and purchased myself some hiking shoes and a small day backpack in the Boxing Day sales.

The first hike that we decided to do was labelled as an intermediate hike from Baslow to Bakewell which was set to take about 3 hours.

Getting There

We got to the village of Baslow by getting on the 218 bus to Bakewell from Sheffield Interchange.

As of writing this, there is a fare cap on English buses that means a return journey to Bakewell is only £4.

We decided that, since the hike was ending in Bakewell, we would buy a return to the town and just get off the bus at Baslow on the way.

The Route

We got a bit lost but eventually made it to the pond – the next waypoint on our journey.

We walked through the wood, our path slightly diverted by a fallen tree to be a horrendous, muddy, uphill battle.

After crossing a golf course, and ringing a bell to prevent golfers from sending any stray golf balls my way, we finally made it to Bakewell.

Statistics

Here are my Apple Watch statistics for the hike:

Unfortunately I do not seem to be able to differentiate the steps from the hike from the total steps for the day – I will try to figure this out for the future.

My Experience

I absolutely loved my first hike in the Peak District and it has definitely made me want to go out and explore more in the future.

I had to do so many new things from navigating to peeing outdoors that took me pretty far out of my comfort zone but, no matter what the walk threw at us, we perservered and had a great time.

We got lost several times and couldn’t even find the start point to begin with and a tree falling down meant that our route suddenly became a lot more difficult than we expected. I felt like a deer learning to walk the entire time.

It was so much fun.

There are definitely things that I would change – not wearing a white coat for example. I also think that we should have drank more water as we walked around as we definitely didn’t drink enough. It was a learning experience and I am looking forward to taking the things I have learnt forward to the next hike.

We have already planned some more hikes for the near future!

What is the best hike you have ever done? Have you been to the Peak District? Do you have any suggestions for hikes I should do in the future?

Thanks for reading!