Effin' knackered! Got that feeling when I close my eyes like you get when you've spent the day in the sea, like you're still bobbing about. I can also still feel the wind blowing the snow in my face: there's a strip of skin across the eyes and nose still tingling. More tomorrow.
"The best shield is to accept the pain, then what can really destroy me?"
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crikey! i wish i'd read this before replying to RachFR's 'wanted' post!
...happy birthday em! will you be having ice in your drinks
You're MAD, the lot of you
Details of yesterday's epic HPM recce.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/25619170
Neither this, nor the words so far written really do it justice!!
17.96mi (prob 18 dead where I forgot to restart it for a while after our bivvy/lunch stop), 2,085ft of climb, and a sh*tload of snow!! HPM purists among you will notice it doesn't follow the exact route round, but you know what?to you!!
"The best shield is to accept the pain, then what can really destroy me?"
http://garyufm.blogspot.co.uk
I was thinking of you all as I drank my hot soup at work.
I knew from investgations the night before exactly what conditions would be like. Nothing like it and you probably wont ever have a recce like it again. You can only think what Scott and Amundson and such other explorers went through. well done to you all
Thats the peak district in full force.
Snow shoes or Skis next time maybe guys
Not bloody likely. Not in those conditions.Originally Posted by daz h
It could be worse next Friday!
ydt
Ever the optimist, eh?
"The best shield is to accept the pain, then what can really destroy me?"
http://garyufm.blogspot.co.uk
I just viewed our 'line' off of Bleaklow with the satellite view and, as I thought, we were following the Pennine Way pretty dead on to begin with, albeit a snow clogged impassable version of it. I guess Ian headed off track to try and cut out the loop of the Pennine Way as it veers south east before heading back south west but we ended up going south westerly parallel with but way off the Pennine Way instead. All pretty irrelevant in that any which way was verging on impossible anywayDetails of yesterday's epic HPM recce.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/25619170
Neither this, nor the words so far written really do it justice!!
17.96mi (prob 18 dead where I forgot to restart it for a while after our bivvy/lunch stop), 2,085ft of climb, and a sh*tload of snow!! HPM purists among you will notice it doesn't follow the exact route round, but you know what?. In the circumstances as good a line as any.
Thinking back it felt like the last 4 miles took as long as the first 14
I just viewed our 'line' off of Bleaklow with the satellite view and, as I thought, we were following the Pennine Way pretty dead on to begin with, albeit a snow clogged impassable version of it. I guess Ian headed off track to try and cut out the loop of the Pennine Way as it veers south east before heading back south west but we ended up going south westerly parallel with but way off the Pennine Way instead. All pretty irrelevant in that any which way was verging on impossible anyway
Thinking back it felt like the last 4 miles took as long as the first 14 Probably a bit of an exaggeration but not far off for sure.
never the less it was a mistake that I should not have made. Cold tired and trying to keep up the pace to get us off. time looking at the map featureless as it was would have saved us a bit of time
My mistake was not stopping and checking the map. (even though 2 maps blew away) and running on a bearing given by mamalaids GPS even though it was correct but not accounting for terrain.
Having a closer look, that stone we saw sticking up at that grough was put there by metwo years ago. slap bang on one of my race lines
Interesting looking at the loop on the PW before HC as we tried to contour round the big drift in the stream bed. The whole moor was alien to me.
The timing was right we averaged 1 MPH over Bleaklow
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