Even colder today than yesterday for another tarmac ride on the Arkose. Headed in a generally NE direction down to Rowsley and up to Beeley Moor, No 127 in Simon Warren's Another 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs. Not a very challenging climb but there was a lot of ice on it from water running across the road and I was pleased that I was going up it and not down.
The object of the ride was to tick the Trig at Harland South which is the high point of Beeley Moor. To get to it I leaned the bike against a drystone wall had a half mile of knee deep, out and back, heather bashing in cycling boots!
More icy roads over to Wadshelf and on to Curbar Gap before steeply down into Curbar. I have never seen so many vehicles parked at or near Curbar Gap and the coffee seller in his retro Citroen Van must have been making a fortune by the size of the queue. And no I didn't partake even though I was frozen.

Down the valley to Baslow, along the 13 bends to Bakewell and up the hill home. 26 miles and 2,500 feet in 2hr 12min which was quicker than expected as I was descending some hills nearly as slowly as I was climbing them due to that horribly dark grey glassy sheen on the tarmac.