Don't worry Emmilou - Breakfast orders will be taken at The Luv Shack!;)!:p!Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
IDP - as I'm sure you know.... epic it often is... 1999 was a real cracker:D!
Hope to see you all on the night and the day after!
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Don't worry Emmilou - Breakfast orders will be taken at The Luv Shack!;)!:p!Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
IDP - as I'm sure you know.... epic it often is... 1999 was a real cracker:D!
Hope to see you all on the night and the day after!
If you end up running past the "Shack" you've taken a wrong turn at Edale cross:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Luv Shack
Might easily be more than a few taking the odd diversion if this weather keeps up :eek:...Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Very very bitter wind tonight at Kinders Feet,
howling down Tunstead Clough....
Curtains at 45'... ;).
Thanks for replies to my Qs.
Ian - you get my PM? Are you joining us on Friday?
yep my last long recce of this section........Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
......Maybe;):D
Cool!:cool: You gonne meet us at Snake Pass, or Cutthroat Bridge?
The all stars recce team for Friday may have trouble getting to frigging Snake Pass which is currently closed due to ice and snow :(
Would a viable plan B be to get to Cutthroat Bridge from the other end and go as far as we can along Howden Edge towards Bleaklow and then follow our footsteps back again? It would make for a longer run to be sure but would also ptrovide double coverage of some of the difficult to navigate terrain that we would be blundering through in the dark on the night of the event?
Is the key in the usual place??!! ;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by Luv Shack
Emmilou, you may fall foul of the rules if you receive outside assistance:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
HPM rule 4:
4. Teams must be self sufficient, with no supporters or pace-makers.
Yiannis
Okay, so no key left out. What about breaking and entering? Self sufficient? Or does it fall into a bit of a grey area?:confused:;)
That would probably be ok with the HPM rules but not with the law (if you were to be apprehended):cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Yiannis
It's ok Stolly even if you need to come the other way I'll take you on a Magical mystery tour so we can do a loop but still do Howden edge-Wainstones and back to car although it's about 22 miles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
We'll decide thursday Evening
Eh?? errr am I gonna get back in time to blow out my candles??? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Stolly - say nowt! :rolleyes:
Does that mean you are bringing Birthday cake:DQuote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
Em you'll be okay so long as you keep enough puff back to light a fag ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/14335...ay_candles.jpg
QUOTE=emmilou;309384]Eh?? errr am I gonna get back in time to blow out my candles??? :(
Stolly - say nowt! :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Emms, probably bout same time? Distance roughly what we were looking at before, but less faff with cars afterwards.
If Thats the cake you are bringing don't drop any ash on it....;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Ian,
Thanks for your Help, i think we have definately sorted a runner for the team which has come from the Dark Peak Fell Runners web site..
see you a week on Friday..
Em can you save me a bit of that cake i may just need it !!!
Snake Pass has re-opened team and plan A is back on the cards :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Excellent!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Weather forecast for tomorrows Cutthroat to Snake recce...
Met office
Blizzards? No risk
Heavy snow? Low risk
Storm force winds? No risk
Gales? Medium risk
Persistent and extensive hill fog? High risk
Thunderstorms? No risk
Heavy persistent rain? High risk
A possible epic is on the cards
Pea souper out the window at the moment. Perfect for the night recce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Heavy occasional rain rattleing the windows. see you in the morning...I hope;)
we've had rain most of the day so some snow should have gone but Bleaklow??????
Good luck to you all.
Its getting a bit close to the event but if anyone is short of a team member the students have a list of willing individuals to join a team. Contact Nick or Ali at [email protected] :)
No Possible about it. It was an ........Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
EPIC By any standards.
I've not seen condition so bad in the peak before. Bleaklow was frightening
I'll leave it up to the others to describe and to post the odd pic.
However if this helps Last week i did it in 3.20. today around 7.30!!!!!:eek: Not from the Lack of effort i can tell you
I'm wrecked.
Thanks To Clair for leaving the landy at SS it would have been along trudge in the snow Down the Snake with out it.
Made a bit of a Nav error near the end, I'll Stick to M&C in future:mad:
Bloody hell if you say it's hard it must be unbelievable.
That's quite scary if you thought it was that bad :eek: We were out on Snake Top last night and were struggling to stay on the Pennine Way due to it being buried, but we didn't do the hard bit...
Buried, I take it we mean drifts of 5 foot plus.
Pretty much.... some of it was runnable on, but we found a fair few big holes to fall down...
I know what you mean you can never be quite sure even when certain of navigation that your not going to drop down a ruddy great hole as all the lands features are gone. Cn be very unsettling even for the most experienced runners.
An understatement of epic proportions; that's another of my fell running nine lives gone!. My finger tips and toes are now, 4 hours later still thawing out and just stepping outside immediately chills me to the bone. Awesome....... I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
I got so so mad and fed up of falling through various holes, walking in to drifts, attempting to step up a snow bank as it dissapeared in front of me.Quote:
Originally Posted by RachFR
I very much doubt this as you seemed to be just surviving but did anyone take pictures or anything as it sounds fascinating.
oooof. That was a tough day at the office indeed. Thanks Ian for your constant snow breaking at the front - you must be knackered and thanks for looking after and almost hyperthermic birthday girl :eek: Jeeeeezuz that's gonna be one bloomin long night out if that keeps up.
I'm just thawing out now, slowly. Even Softlads super hot car wasn't doing the trick. Wouldn't mind but was warm (ish) whilst trudging - can't really call it a run can we!!!
I had a feeling it would be another marsden edale reminder and I wasn't wrong. I'm starting to get very allergic to snow and does anyone else have sore eyeballs from blinking in a blizzard all day and getting mini snowballs in them?! :(
Right I'm off for a well earned birthday drink! :)
Took pics - prob monday when I get them on - I'll do a write up on my blogQuote:
Originally Posted by Herakles
Some pics won't be so good - the camera froze as well as having non functional hands to work the thing
I shall keep my eye out for it. Sounds like anyone other than very experienced Fell runners should stay clear and not be training up there.
What a way to spend your birthday, Emma - many happy returns! I bet you're glad to have had a man with all Ian's experience with you.
Good luck to all of you next week. I may well come out to see you on Saturday morning.
Have many drinks Em you deserve it.
My hands were too cold to take many pictures going up Bleaklow and down the other side, where the snow was incredible. I just didn't want to stop moving either.
Here's one though of the intrepid team that kind of sets the scene...
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2783/p2260006.jpg
Good lord looks cold but fun so long as you didn't stay out too long.