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G uild vice-president Roly Smith has been busy organising the 2017 Spirit of Kinder event , which this year marks the 85th anniversary of the 1932 Mass Trespass , and will be held at The Village Hall , Edale , on Saturday , April 22 .
The line-up of key speakers this year includes Dame Helen Ghosh , Director General of the National Trust ; Vanessa Griffiths , new Chief Executive of The Ramblers , and Stephen Trotter , Director of the Wildlife Trusts of England . The theme this year will be the outstanding re-wetting and re-wilding work which the National Trust and others have done on Kinder Scout , transforming the landscape which the trespassers knew .
The event will also see the launch of Clarion Call , a new book to which Roly has contributed and edited , celebrating Sheffield ’ s place in the fight for access to the Peak District moors and featuring many previously unseen photographs of the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers .
Cotton grass thriving on Kinder after restoration ( Dave Bocking )