Waterfall hunting

I asked Lucie if she fancied a waterfall hunting adventure on Sunday as I wanted to explore the ones other River Alport. I knew there would be some scrambling as there was no sign of paths nearby the contour lines were very close together.

We started at Doctors Gate and headed up the pennine way, we turned off at Hern Clough where we had a dip in a little plunge pool before carrying on over an area called The Swamp, fortunately in the current heat wave it was dry.

We then joined the start of the River Alport, it wasnt long before we scrambling down to the river to find the 'falls' marked on the map. It was fair to say they were stunning and we had lots of fun playing, but the pool wasnt deep enough for a dip.

Some more scrambling down the river lead to our next waterfall.

This was the one I'd seen the photo of on the Internet and it was lovely.

the next stop was a surprisingly deep plunge pool, I even did some jumping.

Then a really deep channel, I could only just get deep enough to touch the bottom.

There wassome scrambling along the river when the sides were too steep.

The last dip on the River Alport was a lovely little pool where we could admire the heather and look down the valley.

Then we headed up onto Alport Moor before dropping down to Nether North Grain as there were falls marked.

We found the first one, a lovely little one that was super cold!

The secobd just 50m further wasnt as cold but also very cute.

From there it was onto the A57, where it was a shock to the system to see peole, before walking up the road to where we parked. We picked up a ridiculous amount of rubbish on this 200m stretch and could have picked up more if we had a bigger bag.

A Great adventure, 7miles covered and 8 dips!