12C, dry and mostly sunny.

After a sharp climb, the groups get themselves onto the Pennine Way on kinder. We hiked up to man the checkpoint on a col near a crash-site. Both groups were later than we expected, but were happy enough.​

A nice day for us, despite much waiting around. We got a good walk up Kinder ( I went as far as Kinder Downfall) and then visited a WWII crash site. Another DofE leader appeared to do his checkpoint duty with a an open group. “Dave” his name was was a lot of fun and we met him and his group later.

At the checkpoint, when we finally met our groups, we urged them on to ensure camp before nightfall. They arrived at camp around dusk which meant setting camp in torchlight. The sun goes down early evening as we’re near to equinox.

Both groups will probably find the first night one of fitful sleep. First nights are always like that for most people. For us, the long drive back to Edale got us in at 20.30 approximately.