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Stolly, I just caught up with your stuff. The photos are giving me SO much pleasure, and I'm very glad to have the route suggestions - could gladly use a bit more detail in them - hope to do some of them for real sometime when my long run is a bit longer! Finally, I love the cat - sometimes sit and watch him all through his repertoire. Well, no wonder I never have enough time - for running OR housework.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
In hindsite Dave was awesome, we were wading through deep snow and dave just kept ploddin( although he needed carrying over some drifts):rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
Nearly to the top of Plover Hill and back from Horton
9 miles ~ 1,400 feet
I am now officially sick to the back teeth of bleeding, sodding, futher mucking snow!! My plan was to run out of Horton, around the western side of the Pen Y Ghent ~ Plover Hill ridge to Foxup Moor, up Plover, along the top and then whiz down from the trig on PyG. Unfortunately despite a bold effort, the side of Plover was impassable, either vertical snow and ice or deep drifts with the normal path completely buried. I did attempt a climb but reached a point where going up any further was suicidal and getting back down the way I'd gone up was becoming exceedingly tricky too. So I bottled it and decided to live to run another day and reversed my tracks.
Horton --> Horton Scar --> Hull Pot --> Horton Moor --> Foxup Moor --> nearly to the top of the vertical bit of Plover --> back to Hull Pot --> over Whitber Hill --> an off piste line to the western Pennine Way track --> Horton
Spot the footbridge... and the stream under it!
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The bottom of my assault on Plover Hill
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I got nearly to the top of this bit before losing my nerve
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Left to right --> Ingleborough (the all white submarine), Park Fell and Whernside viewed from the top of Whitber Hill
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Blinkin' Nora - good effort Solly. Yes I want the snow to go away too - so I can reccy Coniston. Sorry ice climbers, but is getting annoying now.
Hey Stolly, i went on my first run on pendle hill yesturday with hursty....whats not to like about it!:D
Its my little joke, largely because southernsoftie and ukhursty never seem to run any other flipping hill. I love the half tour route and do run it every now and then; the full tour route though is so contrived that you can end up hating the hill, especially on the 5th or 6th sodding climb :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by Stolly
Well a fellow club mate said the pendle cloughs route was also contrived....i enjoyed the recce but its going to be a sod to race it.
When i can drive, i'll have to come and join you in - :eek:yorkshire:rolleyes: - for some runs stolly!
The Dales are only an hour from Preston Al and its a stunning drive if you zip through Bowland.
That said I'm kind of getting stuck in my ways too and only ever want to run in the Dales nowadays - the peak has too much mud and bog and the lakes has too much rock and rubble.... and too many tourists ;) :rolleyes:
:D Well it will be a while yet.;)....but i'm excited already!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Oh god! The Dales, the Dales, the Dales, that's all we ever hear about! Why not run somewhere else...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
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