Hayfield an unplanned walk - or a day not gully blocking

For the first time in living memory we failed to find our work. The weather forecast suggested that the mist would lift from the landscape by about 10am - which was about when we got more or less to the top.

If it had it would have been a simple task to spot the shed and bags of stone that had been helicoptered onto the top of Kinder Scout - a extensive gullied  peat and grit stone plateau that we have worked on previously......

In the event visibility was poor - we went up, we had a walk around, we gave up, we came down - then the cloud lifted - but too late for our work.

It has been suggested that GPS could have been used to find the work site - but in practice that wouldn't have been safe as in that visibility or lack of it we wouldn't have been able to see enough to keep track of the safety of the individual volunteers.  So the descision to come down again was the correct one.