There's a shop over the road where we can stock up on pies while waiting :)
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There's a shop over the road where we can stock up on pies while waiting :)
Unlucky richard ,enjoy the guilt free 2weeks off. Epic is a good sounding word to prelude saturdays fun :-) and the pie shop is looking like having a bumper day too.......
Hope everyone carrying a pie :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom R
I'm staying in Keswick Friday and Sat evenings at the Denton House Hostel along with quite a few other well known forumites. We will be somewhere between Dog and Gun and Lakeland Spice from 6 ish both nights......and in the Loft till 3 ish Sunday :w00t: If anyones in Keswick come and say hello (bring a pie ;) )
Auld Ken
I'll be travelling up to Askam this afternoon (snow permitting - it's been doing it all morning here in S. Manchester). Staying in the Queen's Head tonight and tomorrow. Anyone else staying there? If so I'll see you there.
I've just phoned the Queen's Head to ask about conditions - no snow and roads are clear. Forecast is predicting a bit of snow tomorrow. Sounds like a repeat of last year, except it'll be 10 deg C warmer. Who's for shorts and vest then? :w00t:
Looks like it might snow a bit this afternoon/evening, but probably not enough to cause problems.
We're travelling up to Patterdale YH tonight, hope the roads stay clear. No snow on the Halifax/Huddersfield boarder at the moment. See you all in the morning bright and early!
Why am I getting excited about this when I'm not doing it!? :confused::confused: Good luck everyone thats doing it!!!
I'm experiencing the usual excitement and misplaced optimism that comes before a big event. No doubt this time tomorrow I'll be wishing I'd never entered and vowing to not be so silly in future.
We've managed to stay optimistic enough that we've packed gear for some winter climbing on Sunday :)
It's more likely that walking down stairs to breakfast will be quite enough exertion for the day.
As long as theres no winter climbing required on Saturday! Toreador :-)
This will be quite an adventure, I hope
No, what I meant was - how do you sleep at night with all those complicated permutations whizzing round your head. I wasn't meaning to imply that you had anything to be guilty about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Splatcher
It's looking rather white outside. At this rate I'll have to dig my way from Cheshire to Askham. Alarm set for 5...
Currently snowing over the NE Lakes with more on the way.
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raise_up_dated_pics/
http://www.glenriddingcybercafe.co.uk/
I'm reliably informed there's around 30cm of snow on the Wansfell ridge with a thin crust and snow falling as of maybe 30 minutes ago.
In case anyone's approaching this evening via the A1 to Scotch Corner - the A1M has been closed all day at Wetherby, the re-opening time is currently set at 6pm but has already been put back several times. Tailbacks are reported as about 3 hours :thunbdown:
You'll have to go round the top to get to Patterdale, Mrs Stagger. This http://www.keepmoving.co.uk/hold_ups...2&direction=-1 says the Kirkstone Pass is blocked. I know Troutbeck village bought themselves a snowplough - maybe they just pushed it further up the road?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
Oh thank you DFTS, just seen this message although Hank did mention it early on in the week but I forgot!
The roads round here are a bit tricky. I had to abandon getting my daughter to her music lesson as the A49 was at a standstill for miles due to the slush & snow slowing the rush hour traffic up, & funnelling it off the minor roads. Glad I'm not travelling tonight. Should be a nice icy surface to drive up on in the morning!
BBC Cumbria are saying Kirkstone is open now.
Wish they'd told me the fell road across to Ennerdale was shut before I drove over it :w00t:
Good luck everyone.
Were at clifton a few miles from askham and its clear here and a66 was fine too altihough its freezing up abit now
Good Luck guys!...have a nice day!! :)
Was sat in a hospital bed for most of today (having been re-admitted with pericarditis) thinking about the race. Hope you all had a great time and looking forward to reading the reports.
Thanks to all those involved in organising today's event - fantastic, really enjoyed (particularly the spicy parsnip soup at the end). Tough going thru the snow up to Sticks Pass & somewhat past Grisedale tarn, otherwise a cracking day out!
Hear hear. Although I actually enjoyed most of the snow that climb up to Sticks Pass in the cloud went on for ever. I used up the last of my strength running down from Boredale Hause, & the last bits were a real struggle for me - and a number of others I think. A brilliant day out. This really is one of those special events. Thanks to everyone who helped, & if anyone found my blue anorak I left hanging up in the gents, I'd like it back!
Results are up already!
What a great day out, I think this is going to become my annual end of year race. loved everybit especially descending Sticks pass out of the the cloud!! Happy Days !!!:w00t:
What a disaster!
No, not the Tour which, due to good organization, spectacular conditions, challenging course and good company, was my favourite event of the year together with the Saunders. There was one micro-disaster out on the route though – I’d bought some walking poles and couldn’t understand how to attach the baskets so set them aside for later, only to forget. This meant the hoped-for support on the deep stuff over the Sticks Pass wasn’t there.
The disaster occurred when I got home. Arrived home tired. Upstairs to run a bath, downstairs to prepare chilli con carne to eat while soaking in the bath. Upstairs again holding the rather hot dish with fingertips to minimize the burn, stumble on a step, dish flies up in the air and cartwheels past me down the stairs, spraying every step of the newly-fitted light-coloured carpet as it went. After initially wondering about just taking a photo for the insurance and having my bath, I rushed for the Stain Removal A-Z booklet: no chilli con carne entry, no tomato entry… ah! ketchup. One and a half hours later the carpet looked reasonable again, as far as my colourblindness can tell. Time for a bath…
Oh bad luck: could have happened to anyone knackered after that run though. The good news: Joe's phoned & he's got my anorak. Good news for me that is...
Well done all who got round yesterday. We bumped into Fellgazelle who was re-fueling in the George and he said Mrs Stagger and Hank had good runs :cool:
A brilliant day, thanks to everyone involved. We even managed to achieve our target, ie finishing :)
Some photos: http://climbing.me.uk/Tour-de-Helvellyn/index.html
Great photos, really captured what a day we all had! Thanks for sharing!
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Originally Posted by Toreador
A great event and day out. Thanks to the NAV4 team.
can't believe winning time:
Name No. Start Finish Time
Kim Collison 93 08:59 15:04 06:05
aye a good day and well done to all who got to the line start. cracking soup at the end with a cuppa made it all worth while ,almost. weather behaved its self too and gave some great views. sticks pass was the highlight of a top day out. a cock up/ laziness of not checking map on askham on the return cost us a chunk of time but otherwise went pretty much to plan.would have liked to keep high level a bit more but otherwise couldnt fault the event. kit check was thorough : have you got food, yes a sarnie, what sarnie you got, jam , ok enjoy your day. classic :-). it was good to meet nee bother and put a face to a name, and eat his xmas cake too.........
I can only echo that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Will
Thoroughly enjoyed it, a brilliant day out and one, I hope, I'll be back for next year.:)
I'd like to give a big thanks to Joe and his team for a superb event. I've never run in the Lakes in winter before and it was a truly amazing experience. We were so lucky with the weather, couldn't have wished for better. We only needed to use our head torches for about half an hour at the end as it had been such a glorious day. I ran with Hank who was great, he definitely kept me going when I had a couple of low spells so thank you Hank! We got round in 9 hours 11 which considering we were aiming for about 10 is pretty good in my book. We seemed to get stronger as the race went on and finished in good shape, I think we paced it just right. Well done to everyone else who completed this challenge, it's definitely something I will remember for a long time to come. Great to see Fellgazelle and Toreador enroute, oh and Santa made an unscheduled stop at Swirls carpark, that was a welcome sight (thanks Ken, you're a star).
Great Photos thanks now i can bore my family with the photos as well lol:w00t:
It was a grand day out! As Mrs Stagger says, we seemed to pace it just right and finished in good spirits, as we'd been the whole day. Heavy going over Sticks Pass, but I think generally the conditons were pretty good. Some really amazing views as the skies cleared later on in the day and it was a real pleasue to be out there running. Big thanks to Joe and his team for a low-key but really well organised event, especially the bloke at the check on the way up to Sticks Pass... it was Arctic in the wind up there! Nice to meet some forumites along the way too.
I'm not going to add anything else...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
The white out over Sticks was definitely the highlight for me, followed closely by the section past Grisedale Tarn. The lowlight was when the wheels fell off on the track through the forest above Thirlmere, I just wanted to sit down and go to sleep. Some pasty and painkillers kept me going until we turned uphill again and everything suddenly seemed much easier. After that it was all enjoyable again until I lost concentration right at the end and we went for an unplanned detour :)
Yep, the bad forecasts earlier in the week improved and, just as forecast by the end of the week, there were some showers in the morning and it cleared up nicely later in the day. It's good they can be so accurate, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkL