We celebrated my birthday with a pretty strenuous 8 and a quarter miles, over the Roaches twice, through Lud’s Church. We set off from the ex-Tea room at Hulme End at about 9.30 am, in glorious weather with blue skies and very little wind.
The ridge was as quiet as we’ve seen it, 
though plenty of people appeared later.
We saw a couple of swallows over the Doxey Pool.
We saw a superb male orange tip butterfly along the lower ridge towards Swythamley.
We had a late picnic close to the high point of the ridge on our way back. This was the only point where we felt the need to put waterproofs on against the wind.
Later on there was a spectacular sunset as we drove to Leek for a meal.
Route as on October14th 2023, with a minor variation.
Almost 1200 feet of ascent.
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