Is it possible to be in danger in the outdoors when you can see safety with the naked eye and it's not that far away? This is the question I was asking myself as we fought our way through heather bushes that were frozen and laden with snow. Each step meant sinking knee-deep into shrubbery that snagged and crackled under our feet. Halfway round the Edale loop, from Mam Tor to Kinder Scout, we’d decided to take a detour ‘off piste’, away from the obvious path so that we could c