{"id":4666,"date":"2015-12-17T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:39:46","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s never a bad day for navigation practice, particularly if it&#8217;s cloudy on Kinder Scout and you&#8217;re not the one doing the navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Tom wanted a refresher on map and compass work, but disappointingly took us from Edale past Ringing Roger and west to Jacob&#8217;s Ladder without any major incidents. This despite cloud cover from the top of Grindsbrook Clough, and me being a bit of a git with making him triple-check everything and occasionally trying to make him go the wrong way. The only sign of winter was a thin veneer of ice atop lots of saturated peat, but that was sufficient justification for a hot chocolate on returning to Edale.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4667\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-01.jpg\" alt=\"Gaining the plateau near Ringing Roger. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-01.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-01-460x260.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaining the plateau near Ringing Roger. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4668\" style=\"width: 943px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-02.jpg\" alt=\"The weirdness of the Wool Packs. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-02.jpg 933w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-02-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The weirdness of the Wool Packs. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4669\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-03.jpg\" alt=\"Heading for home. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015\" width=\"328\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4669\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heading for home. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4670\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151213-04.jpg\" alt=\"At the bottom of Jacob&#039;s Ladder. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4670\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the bottom of Jacob&#8217;s Ladder. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2015<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s never a bad day for navigation practice, particularly if it&#8217;s cloudy on Kinder Scout and you&#8217;re not the one doing the navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[420,1092,243,396],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-fell-running","tag-kinder-scout","tag-peak-district","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}