In reply to PebblePusher: When I was a non driver all crags used to be easy access through trains , buses or hitch hiking. Now sadly in the first two cases expense has put a dampner on, the latter safety in this modern world has made it frowned on to either hitch hike or pick up hitch hikers.
By hitching from Sheffield I visited Corwall, North Wales, The Lakes, Scotland on a regular basis and returned from the Alps once my van share had to go back earlier than I needed to.
Around the Peak bus fairs were ridiculously cheap, you could get to Rivelin and Bell Hagg for twopence if you were still at school from almost anywhere in Sheffield on 'The Circular' bus which terminated at the Norfolk Arms below Rivelin though it did take a bit of time (if it was a godamawful rainy day we sometimes used to get 'the circular' and just sit on it all the way round till the stop we got on at).
I think Fox House was sixpence, and Burbage and Millstone Lawrencfield etc were easily done from there. Stanage was fourpence to Redmires.
But even though fares were cheap we still used to hitch hike if possible.
The we discovered the bus to Stoney Middleton and Froggatt was or oyster, along with Stoney itself just as it became the capital of UK climbing.
