One of Paul Chandler's walks, interesting enough partly in the same area that Niki and I explored last Wednesday.
We headed over the hill from Stoney Middleton and dropped down into Coombes Dale and spent a couple of hours or so on the sides of a side valley looking at some old mine workings and having lunch.
We then went on up Coombes Dale to look at the big gated entrance to Sallet Mine.
From there we headed back down the valley, practically to the stile for the footpath over the hill back to the village and crossed the stream to check out Fatigue Pot. Paul had been telling us about Masson CC trips and digging in there and he hadn't really been selling it (Niki said that if he was a car salesman, he'd be sacked!), so when we saw the flat out, muddy grovel we all looked at each other and decided to stay in the sunshine and enjoy the cracking view of Curbar Edge and Curbar Gap.
Back at the cars, we drove a short distance up Middleton Dale to park near Layby Pot. We checked out both of the entrances and found another hole that Niki and I missed last week, Beech Hole. We then headed back past the cars (stopping for chocolate bars and more sandwiches) and climbed up the other side of the valley to find some more holes. We also managed to clarify which hole was which and discovered that we'd got some of them mixed up last week.
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