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    England’s six-day hike that offers you vistas, history and a slice of rural life

    by Steve Wartenberg Jun 18, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Finally, a sign I couldn’t miss or misunderstand.

    It read “Mam Tor via Odin Mine”. As we followed the line of the arrow on the sign, there it was, the popular Mam Tor (Mother Hill), off in the distance, looming above the Hope Valley and beckoning hundreds of hikers to climb to the top on this warm, windy spring day.

    “It looks like a bunch of ants walking in a line across the top,” said my sister, Lauren, pointing to the faraway figures moving in a line along the ridge extending east from Mam Tor. Soon enough, we’d join the procession.

    On the way up Mam Tor in the Peak District

    This was Day Three of’s National Park. Somehow, despite my protests, I had been appointed lead ant. My wife (Susan), my sister and her husband (Bob) followed my directions, starting the hike at , then on to Tideswell (13 miles) and Castleton (11 miles), near the base of Mam Tor.

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