Yep leaving snake 8am going clockwise I assume
. May be a partial dozen since 4 of 6 did HPM.
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Yep leaving snake 8am going clockwise I assume
. May be a partial dozen since 4 of 6 did HPM.
Can I get from Bowden bridge to the Snake Inn, in two hours? I think not. I will be a bit behind them.
Excuses already....tut tut, besides you didn't "do" the HPM..;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Filthy Rich
Pat I wouldn't mind tagging along tomorrow. Was going to do bg legs 1&2 but this seems a better option given the lakes weather forecast. Hope this is ok mob no is 07939467848 or post back to confirm. Ian
and I'm one of the two that didn't, I have'nt run anywhere much myself in last week or so.- too busy organising! so I'll be bouncing around like you Tigger;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Ya no problem see you in the morning at 6 at Bowden Bridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chorlian
I may have another fellow Pennine member as well.
We're parking at Snake Inn or near-by. Aiming to set off at 7:45, going clockwise so Seal Stones first summitQuote:
Originally Posted by Chorlian
thanks pat I will head down tonight and stop in camper van. See you at6 am
Great day with Pennine's Tim, and Ian Chorlian Got around in 8:19. Hoped to break 8 hrs but there were too many navigation cockups, the worst of them visiting Crookstone Knoll twice! Chorlian (a BG contender this year) reckons it is harder than any run he has done in the lakes.
Rich, did any of your lads drop a black glove on Fairbrook Naize, I have it. Saw your mudclaw tracks loads of times. We got to your start at 8:30 so 45 minutes behind you.
We had a grand day, didnt leave the snkae bridge until 8.10 so surprised you see us just ahead there were out 8 of us to start with and 5 completed in just under 8 hs. We saw your mudclaw prints for last couple of ascents. Glove not mine will ask others
Check out my 40.4 km Run on Strava: http://app.strava.com/activities/264310385
Chorlian that is our plot if interested.
Yes a great day out Pat we were evenly matched as you say. Interesting see from your strata log that the moving time was only 7 20 with the nav cock ups the time could be improved a fair bit.
Ya eight hrs is very achievable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chorlian
Good work lads. 10K climb in that sort of time is a great marker
Thanks Andrew, I will have another couple of goes at it before my June 26th BG attempt. Next one probably around the end of March if anybody is interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Pat - why not have a go at the Kinder Killer as well? It's a bit longer, and another grand day out.
or even the Derwent Devil if you want to really exploreQuote:
Originally Posted by GeoffB
Done this three times now and I have got my time down to 7:53. Out for a reccie of the northside last night. and identified better lines from Kinder, West, the line up to Seal Stones and the CORRECT stream to follow up to Kinder East. That last one makes a massive difference, the ground is really rough around there. I was at Kinder East after 10pm last night in shorts and I could feel the warmth in the air. Spring is here!
Went around today. Started from Snake Inn. The first 6 were really good, but I was aware of the longer legs to come. A lot of bracken hacking at the bottom of Blackden Brook (as well as elsewhere), and a dodgy line resulting in some steeper-than-necessary climbing from the YHA.
Weather came in on Ringing Roger and didn't spot the cairn but was in the right area - the newer fences threw me off a bit. A half-pint of lemonade set me back £1.75 at the Nag's Head! At least they refilled my water bottle (after initially wanting to throw it away...). It was then claggy on top for the rest of the day, with it sinking nearly as low as Ashop Clough by the time I had to pick my route off the northern edge to the bottom of the last climb. River Kinder-Sandy Heys-Ashop Clough FB was a right pig, as I'd anticipated.
https://www.strava.com/activities/398723548#comments
6:23 all told. I'd have liked to do sub-6 but got a bit demoralised just before Edale and from Kinder Low End onwards. Probably moving for 6h.
What's all this business with running? Me and my (awesome) MM partner walked the Dozen on Good Friday. (I'm not allowed to run any more:( ) It took us about 9 hours. We finished just before three chaps who were running and had apparently start half an hour after us.
I went round a brackeny dozen yesterday in 7.30. that included a lengthy stop sheltering from a heavy shower on the climb to Kinderlow end. The descent and climb between the two trigs was hard going but pleased with the time. Strava had me moving for 6.30.
good conditions, cool wind with cloud cover, dry underfoot and plenty of water in the streams.
First time round in 4 years...
Well Done Ian!
rather you than me though - don't think I would ever attempt it with the bracken up! :eek:
As part of my BG training I started to reccie it in the Autumn of 2014 and some of it was a nightmare, especially the river Kinder, Blackden Brook and Jaggers Clough. I completed it successfully four times in the early spring of 2015 and it was orders of magnitude easier.
I went around today in 5:46 (inc. a 3min stop for a coke at Edale) as part of OMM training (so with a pack) starting at Snake Inn footbridge.
Nice day out, perfect running conditions, and legs got going for the last 6 on the eastern edge, although the climb out of the river Kinder is still a bastard. Bracken not as bad as last time I did it (6:23), and picked some better lines.
Slightly furious that my Garmin decided to delete it before I could upload. Sometimes I think it just likes to spite me.
I thought it was you.
Yesterday morning whilst passing the Snake Inn on my way to Nine Edges Endurance, I did a 'double-take' and thought to myself, "if that's not Nic Barber heading for the hills he's got a doppelganger".
haha, I might have seen you at the 9edges - I got on the startlist on Tuesday but decided to decline it as 2.5h or so isn't long enough for what I need at the moment!
I also saw Nicky Spinks at Snake Inn at 8:15 - bit early for the great Kinder Barrel challenge I thought!
How did you find it Dazzler, Want to do it at some point but looks very very traily.
well quite, i thought that too...
Nic
I've done a race report for Nine Edges.
Good luck with the OMM.
Tried this last week. Suits my style - not much actual running! Very windy day, but otherwise nice conditions. Just over 7hrs of heather bashing. Awesome.
Can someone confirm the grid reference for 'stream/fence' Blackden Brook?
Is it actually 128890 and not 129890? The latter seems to be in the middle of a field, whereas the former feels like the obvious spot when you're there.
Please excuse my pedantry : )
http://www.dpfr.org.uk/uploads/bob-g...DozenRoute.jpg
Thanks
(By the way, conditions for an attempt are probably about as good as they get at the moment? Short grass/heather and no bracken. It doesn't even seem very wet).
I went around the Kinder Killer yesterday and the conditions were much better than I expected. Quite straight forward to be honest. Just some of the streams area a bit high so had to be careful with some of the assents that required frequent jumping back and forth.Quote:
Originally Posted by T_B
Just had a look on Bing Maps and I reckon 128 890 is correct you would have to climb the fence to go further down the stream.
From Blackden Brook to Kinder East Trig is pretty rought. I found that if you follow the stream until you see a crag on your left hand side (couple of hundred metres up the stream). You can climb though the big crack in the middle of it and then follow the little stream bed all the way up to the edge path.
Thanks for the reply, thought so.
I've got a good line up to the Kinder East Trig which starts heading up that first shoulder. After the first little climb as it flattens out a trod leads you out right and across a brook onto the next shoulder. Then it's direct to the edge path. It avoids any steep heather bashing low down. Horses for courses no doubt.
News just in that dark peak vet 60 Jim Paxman ran round the doz yesterday in 8.26....then after 10 minutes refuelling he went round again in 9.42 to complete the double dozen in 18.18.
A fantastic if slightly mental run.
Well Jim....i think..🤣
Is he that senile he forgot he'd done it?!
Noce effort, I imagine conditions will be pretty good at the moment, a week more dry weather would make it close to perfect!
Huge congratulations to Lova Chechik of Dark Peak, hes arrived into Edale claiming a new Kinder Dozen record of 5.08! Taking 7 minutes off the record.
cracking effort from the Russian Stallion!
Great to see a Dozen report up Ian. Many thanks for posting!
A friend of mine completed the KD at the weekend in 6hrs 53min and it has sparked my interest in giving it a go later in the year.
Whilst doing a little research on the route I noticed that OSMaps estimates a running time for it as 3hrs 9min!
I've done it twice, both in September/October with a pack as OMM prep. I always went from the Snake Inn footbridge.
Best to get it done before the bracken gets too high, or all the water sources dry out.
The record is 4:42ish so OS evidently think there's some wiggle room.