Which is the boggiest fell race? I'd love to hear your nominations...
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Which is the boggiest fell race? I'd love to hear your nominations...
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Marl Pits Cross Country :D
Quite a few routes that were distinctly boggy in previous decades are not now, with path 'improvements', modified routes etc. Edale used to have many traps - I was pulled out of a bog there one year by a passing walker who saw the route I took through the zoo...
Marsden-Edale Trigger on a day when it's not completely frozen over. One year these was a decent snow cover but the temperature seemed to be above freezing... it was fairly hellish.
Lee Mill seems to be consistently nasty.
Not so much anymore, You cannot cross Kinder and now with the reservoir bridge closed you cannot even do Bleaklow properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
I have taken over as the race organiser of the Groovy Kinder Love and if I get the permissons off Natural England, it will be quite different to the 2018 route. The reality of the peak district is that the envionmental considerations makes it very difficult to head into the "fun" bits.
The 'sink hole' at The Stoop/Auld Lang Syne (see front cover of February 2003 magazine).
British Fell Relay from Llanberis (was it 2014?). Where all the legs finished down a muddy, slippery slope with a bog at the bottom. Attachment 8773
My money is any in the Cheviots. The Cheviot Goat looked horrendous in places
Any one do Chew Valley skyline back in the day? That looked a potential bog-fest!
The Bog Monster between Cut gate and Outer Edge on the HPM and grin an bear it routes is fabulous fun when completly sodden or completly dry as it turns into a trampoline. Alas difficult to get permission to race across it now, as with many boggy areas being sensitive
Haha just reading this comment... i was up to my armpits in there a few weeks back!Quote:
Originally Posted by ba-ba
Boggiest conditions I've ever met was on the Fellsman route. Crossing Fleet moss I went in up to my armpits and thought I was going to have to swim out, but luckily someone had walking poles and pulled me out. Further on coming off Great Whernside going down to Capplestone gate was also memorable, and this was in the dark having been on the go for 16 hrs. Finished with either trench foot or mild frost bite. Feet hurt for 3 weeks afterwards.
Well, there's bog and there's mud.
Many of the above races IMHO can be muddy (such as Marl Pits XC), but the worst bog I've come across is on Martcrag Moor on the Langdale Horseshoe race. Every year there is someone who 'goes in' up to their waist and needs to be pulled out.
I'm surprised there aren't more photographers at that point just waiting for the bogs' next victim :-)
Yep that Quagmire is areal contender for the bogiestQuote:
Originally Posted by mapper
Once, but it was pretty much frozen over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
Never really associated the Lakes with nasty boggy areas... yes Martcrag is probably the worst i can recall on a race.
A race that went over The Nab would put the cat amongst the pigeons! Or possibly High Tove/Ullscarf...
Martcrag Moor is the worst bog I know - there is a section of the Wansfell Ridge that catches people out, though it's knee deep rather than waist deep. And I have seen people needing help to extract themselves going up the Whernside 3Ps race route.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs