Someone needs to set up a bt tower on top of these damn hills

<p>Well today was an interesting adventure! When I woke up, the view was not as nice as it was yesterday (which by the way I rode for 8.68 miles although something of that was when I walked lance on that path to litton), it was back to being foggy, but not as bad as when I left eyam. I set off from ravenstor early to give myself plenty of leeway to get to edale. I left at 8:35 am. I got a little lost in the beginning because I had forgotten if the b6049 went through tideswell or litton, and I didnt have any signal to check my gps so I chose litton. I went all the way up the hill and had service there so I checked the gps, and of course it was through tideswell (which explains all the heavy traffic) but for the rest of the way i didn't get lost and it was pretty much level or downhill until I got off the main road and took a back path into hope. Passed a few nice lakes though, one had like ice blue water, yet the one on the other side of the road didn't. So I passed through hope to get to edale. It was another long climb to the top! On my way up, I was looking to my left at like a viaduct, picking away at my nose, and all of a sudden I heard a loud "hello!" To my right, which startled me. It was a group of bikers, and they said hello as they rode past. I saw like 4 groups today, all with their sexy lycra and sponsored shirts, so I assume they are practicing for a marathon. So when I got to the yha gates, it was yet another steep hill up to the hostel. I passed a walker who was coming down and he said oh its mostly flat, you'll be fine. What a bastard!! I ended up walking lance for most of that way. I swear, the yha chooses their hostels in the most obscure places! But its real close to the popular walking trails so can't complain there. I arrived at the hostel at 10:47 am, 12.85 miles later, max speed 32mph!! And avg 6.2. I dropped off my stuff cause my room wasn't ready yet. Then I headed back down the hill to grab food from the spar in hope. I sat at a bus stop across the church and had lunch. At around noon I guess the remembrance day mass was getting out cause there was this traffic hold up near the church for like 10 min, and then I heard some trumpets going and saw a whole bunch of people with the poppy flower pin walk by. After lunch I checked out an old animal pound ( a real one) and then headed for edale again. On the way up I saw a dead mole on the shrub. It didn't seem to have lacerations (not that I picked it up and examined the damn thing), but it was probably poisoned. So My original plan was to go to the hostel, change into my waterproof socks, and drop off the food, then do some local walks. But on my way I figured I should check out edale the village quickly before I do that. Well I never made it to the village cause I passed a major starting point for a whole bunch of walks, so I decided just to do a quick walk, with the heavy sauce jar on my back, and ill try not to get too muddy. I first went to the moorland centre that had walking maps but you had to buy them. So I decided to just wing it, I'm sure there will be signs posted like at wye valley. So I had someone point me in the right direction for mam tor and I was on my way. It was still foggy at the hill tops, but I was able to see decently enough. I followed the road for a bit, then geared off to a footpath. I reached the summit of some hill, but I couldn't tell you if it was mam tor or not ( cause why would direction signs be necessary!?). Then I just roamed around a bit, I mean the info board at the moorland center said the fences were only there to contain the sheep, we were free to explore the countryside under the crow act of 2004. But then signs along the way said keep to paths. But let me tell you something, I came across many little signs with a walking person, indicating a public footpath but the footpath would just disappear into the grass. And they had those wooden steps for you to hop over the fences, but those didnt have a path either on the other side of the fence. It's all very strange, I wonder if things are like this in cow country back home. Just allowing people to roam on lands with cow and sheep, with their dogs and whatnot. So anyway, I'm walking along. I ended up Fenced in, and the only way out was either hop back over the fence from the wooden steps that I took to go in, or go through a gate. So I went for the gate and saw it said private property, so when I lifted the latch to let myself out, 2 men came out to see who was on their property and I said "I'm sorry, I got lost and I've wandered into your land. But I'm leaving now!" But like I was led there by the "path"! I just don't get it. So I continued up some more hills, Getting muddy and wet, really regretting not going back for those socks, I was really stepping deep in mud at some points. It was really slippery. I did manage to fall at one point, but that was on a grassy slope thank god! So i check the time and its 3:10 so I figured I better start making my way down this hillside before it gets too dark! So I can see the road, but no paths! So I thought oh fuck this, its like a labyrinth trying to find these wooden gates and steps out of these fenced areas, ill be here all night! So I started hopping the fences. Got my jeans caught on the barbed wire and tore them a bit. Then I came to a small stream and I hopped over it but landed in nettle or gorse or whatever else plant has little stingers that stuck to my clothes. So I'm making my way down the hill, hopped another fence which had very tall grass on the other side, so once I got over and took my first step, it sunk down into some water. Well at least the mud was cleaned off! I made my way through the grass ( I hope England doesn't have ticks!) And continued down the moorland. I finally saw the road I originally came up, but I was on the other side, but that was ok because the main road was right in front of me now! No sooner did I think that, did I come to a river. I definitely couldnt hop over this one! So my only choice was to again climb over the fence. Only this fence had thorny shrubs lining it. But I just went for it. Climbed the fence, then pushed through the shrubs, losing my hat and some hair in the process. But I was free!! So I then headed back to lance and biked around for a bit then headed back to the hostel. Biked 24.85 mi the whole day. I checked in and saw they had paintings on the wall from ansel Adams! Didn't think he had international fame! So when I was filling out my info, I told the receptionist that if he can't find me in the membership system its cause my name is spelt wrong. And he was like "you can't spell your own name!?" And I said "no, it wasn't me, I ordered over the phone, so the guy (replace with complete moron) I spoke to spelled it wrong!" Then I moved into my room and when I opened my sock and underwear bag, this horrible smell escaped and filled the room! Looks like ill be needing to do some wash in Manchester! So tomorrow I will be back on the moorland, doing some more of those walks. I will try my very best to stick to the footpaths, and I'm assuming there will be more people since ill be going earlier, so I will just follow in their footsteps. One thing that peeved me yesterday that i forgot to mention, was for some reason only on the walk up from the monsal trail to the head (or maybe it was only where I noticed it) there were so many dog poop bags tied to the tree branches! I remember at a work meeting Michelle said that people are weird when it comes to poop (referring to how people used to leave it outside the hospital door) but this really was appalling. Esp if they had just waited another 2 min they would be at the top of monsal head and they could have disposed of it in the bins provided! I think there should be stricter background checks on people who try to buy/adopt pets, there should be some way of tracking if someone is a responsible owner not just for the health of the animal, but also in the duties that come along with owning
A pet! But that's my rant for the evening. I better get out of this kitchen before I find myself eating those chocolate muffins that belong to another guest!