Back at Kildwick again tonight. Great run out in good conditions. Got lost both times coming off the pinnacle. One year I'll get it right. Thanks for a good night - just what I needed after 15 miles of road yesterday.
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Back at Kildwick again tonight. Great run out in good conditions. Got lost both times coming off the pinnacle. One year I'll get it right. Thanks for a good night - just what I needed after 15 miles of road yesterday.
It was a lovely little run up to the pinnacle, and the pie and peas went down a treat too.
Smashing run out in the Strid Woods last night with John and Chris P from Tod and their dogs. Several deer spotted and probably the best view of a tawny owl I've ever had running. Just what was needed :thumbup:
6 mile, 1,000 feet, 12 runners, 4 dogs, 3 pints, loads of gossip, pasta plus an invite to beer festival :thumbup:
Hence I'm in bed knackered. :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
51 of us at last nights head torcher....CVFR NIGHT SCORE.....see the pictures on - http://www.facebook.com/Heptonstallfellrace
I couldn't get over to you lot this week due to work but, on the positive side, me and Harry saw a deer in Cleatops Wood on our solo outing instead :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Was it that far, there was certainly a stiff climb at the end, thanks to milli for showing us all a completely new set of stiles! Its certainly good to be back running regularly on a Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Excellent route choice last night in spite of two mile start along the canal meant we had decent amounts of snow for most of our run. Splendid toad in the hole in the Lion and the pint of gravy left over had fantastic restorative properties :thumbup: Big thank you to Brett for lending me a jacket after I realised I'd left mine at home :o
5 X 550 ft hill reps last night on Ilkley Moor with Stef and 6ml / 800ft-ish with Dave C tonight over Lothersdale pinnacle
1hr and a bit on Bishop Hill, in darkest Fife
Great to be able to run without being shin deep or worse in snow, for some reason I felt a bit spooked on the hill.
Full moon 'torcher. 5 miles / 1,000ft up the Beacon with five club mates. No sign of the moon but a couple of pints of York Brewery Guzzler made up for it in the Swan
One of those rare Tuesdays when the Bowland Bats give Carwags/Beacon Fell a miss. Tonight was the annual torchlight trot around the Tolkein Trail from Hurst Green, via Stoneyhurst College ( where the man's son was educated ) and along the riverside paths on sections of the Hodder & Ribble. About 7 miles but not much ascent. The drying wind & sunshine of the past few days, plus the cold, hard ( but not frozen) ground meant that this was the first such occasion in several years that we arrived back at the cars in a clean and presentable state. Then off to The Indian Lounge in Longridge to consume the "Fires of Mordor".
Amazing how the dry weather has changed conditions underfoot this last week or two. "The Fires..." always makes me chuckle :w00t:Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Very dry underfoot tonight. Beautiful evening for our regular Wednesday-nighter. 5 ml / 700ft?
6 mile or so above Skipton with Dave C and his chocolate lab Ollie. Another lovely night to be out. Wore Walshes :thumbup:
Great run round Ponden Kirk - ran with my boy and my dog so pretty perfect!
Had a great run over the east side of Kinder with the PFR crew last night.
I never knew there where so many trig points up there!!
While Paul and I were doing our aimless meandering below 3 knolls we were wondering who those people were with their aimless meandering of the headtorches up on the hill :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Truck
It may have been meandering... but it wasn't aimless :closed:Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry
Nice run up the Beacon with Stef. The recent training seems to be working :thumbup:
Brisk run out tonight from the Lion under a tiny sliver of new moon. I always have mixed feelings at this time of year but tbh looking forward to the 'light nights' :thumbup:
Ditto. I'm almost headtorched out :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Wasn't that sliver of moon beautiful tonight?:) I'm happy that the days are getting longer but I've also had a renewed enthusiasm for headtorch runs since I got my brilliant new headtorch. I can actually see where I'm going and am having fun looking for owls in the tops of the trees :)
Great night last night over the "Streak in the Peak" area. cold with plenty of snow but hardly any wind.
Nice circular run up to the trig at Trough End Edge (Freeholds top) with the regular Bat Run last night. Quite clear but the moon was obscured so we couldnt spot the comet. Will have another look on the run home tonight.
Dan
Last night, Bowland Bats "feral" Thursday run was our version of the Settle Loop from the cattle grid near the entrance of the farm lane down to Upper Winskill. 2 bats settled for exploring around Jubilee & Victoria Caves. 6 of us ran S below Attermire to join the Stockdale farm road at s.h. 369m. Ascending above Stockdale Farm we had snowflakes the size of 50p coins. Once up on the moor, we were crunching along in 2 - 3 inches of crisp virgin snow, with the tail wind piling snowflakes in behind my spectacles. At the Langscar junction, we turned W and followed a single set of bike tracks, not more than a few hours old, in the fresh snow. By Jubilee Cave, we bobbed N ove the stile and headed back to the cars. About 1 hour - 45 mins at a very steady trot.
Ian.
Last night, Ilkley Moor, The Calf, Badgerstone, Keighley Gate, White Wells. Followed by a pint in The Listers Arms.
I knew you lot would be coming over Ian and I timed my head torch run last night to try and bump into you at Attermire (blue circled bit on my route map below) but, when I got there, there was no sight or sound of you. That said the fog and snow made it difficult to see more than twenty paces. You may have seen my mud claw prints in the snow though going the other way? My run was already going to be 5 miles so I wasn't planning on going round your full loop you as well (probably another 8) but I would have trogged along with you for a bit. I love running in weather like that last night - wonderful :)Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
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Brian, that segment of your run that is within the blue circle, is the only bit that overlaid any of our route. It's so muddy and chewed-up around there with some slippery, short, uphill efforts, plus the clag, the falling wind-driven flakes and the lying snow; we probably weren't even on the "actual trod / path", other than at the gates. Certainly did not notice any studmarks. We would have been in your blue circle about 19.15 - 19.20. The only person that we saw, was on the way out, a dog walker in heavy / industrial high-viz waterproofs at the gate across the bridleway, before we headed S on the PFP along Attermire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
It was a fabulous night to be out; but one of those nights when you needed the confidence to know that all of the group had the fitness to keep going and keep generating heat.
Ian.
7 miles / 1800 feet last night on the Beacon with Stef. Fresh out with a cool NE wind and light flurries of snow :thumbup:
Splendid end of season Fullmooner last nght. c 4miles / 900 feet with excellent Jura single malt and Cadburys chocolate fingers break half way round :thumbup:
It's nay bloody far off is it
Had my first headtorcher of the 'autumn' last Wednesday :) but I always seem to set off late in the evening!Quote:
Originally Posted by shaunaneto
Our 3rd week of "Bat Running", for this autumn. Due to forestry / felling work on Beacon Fell, a contingent met up at Fell Foot. 4 of us ran the "Saddle Circle" - Wolfen Hall, Saddle End, Saddle Fell, "Highway in the Sky" across the top of Wolf Fell, Fairsnape Fell (1707 and Paddy's Pole), Blindhurst Saddle, FF. Above 1000 feet we were on a 1" - 2" carpet of crisp, frozen snow, under a starry, moonlit sky. Proper headtorching. Winter has arrived in it's best and truest guise.
My first offroad headtorcher of the winter tonight. 8 miles 1500', just me and all those eerie glowing sheep's eyes in the dark :D
Yesterday evening myself & No.6 had a lovely 8 miler from the roadhead at Tarnbrook hamlet to the trig on Wolfhole Crag, beneath a full "advent moon". The very summit of the "crag" was lightly veiled by thin scudding cloud blowing over from the Brennand Valley into Roeburndale, otherwise a clear starlit sky with almost zero light pollution. On the lower descent, the solitary light at Gilberton Farm appeared to be cast adrift in the huge bowl of fells that constitute the head of the dale.
The moonlit drive over the Trough to the Tillies in Chipping was magical, we just met one other car (near Hareden) and a well illuminated cyclist in Little Bowland.
Last Thursday's "feral 'torcher" saw 4 of us ascend P-y-G via Brackebottom and the S crags, returning to H-i-R via Horton Scar Lane; then refreshments at the Helwith Bridge Inn
Pissing down on this side of the Pennines but love this kind of weather for a headtorcher. Get well wrapped up and off out for an hour and a half then back home for our lasses macaroni and cheese, happy days
Last night was a "triangular" from the Hill Inn at Chapel-le-Dale to Park Fell trig, along the wall to Simon Fell and back to the Inn. Blowing a hooley the whole evening; monsoon like below the cloud base and exceptionally claggy above. On Simon Fell, I met the two members of the early party who had been to the summit of Ingleburger and we descended together, retiring to the Station Inn at Ribblehead.
I can't speak highly enough of the Paramo Velez AdventureLight Smock. I normally sweat like a pig but the technical vest that I was wearing ( my best silk lingerie ) beneath the Paramo was dry.
T'was lovely and a cracking route, if I say so myself.
I also took my two running girlfriends out with the torches last night and they were pleasantly impressed.
Here's to Hope keeping us from the depression thread this winter.