Apropos of Holme Moss and how panic makingly deep the peat was up Tooleyshaw Moss. What's the deepest anybody's been in (and where?)- that's without lying down, which would be cheating.
Back in the posh days of mountaineering two blokes scoured the country looking for dangerous bogs to jump in, but could never find one more than waist deep.
So is there such a thing as a bog so deep you would sink without trace?
Hmmmm...
The deepest I fell into a bog was up past my waist(I'm 5ft 7 so I guess that's pretty deep?)
It was the back end of last year on Winter Hill.
Luckily it was a sunday morning run and I wasn't on my own, to be honest I really don't think I could have got out if I was by myself I was well and truly stuck and it was actually quite scary!
It still haunts me and I treat bogs with a lot more respect now as the one I fell in i had been running right over in the weeks prior and springing along - it had become a deep bog in an unexpectedly short time given that there hadn't been much rain at all!
Up to chest....twice. 1st time off back of winter hill, looked really innocent mud 3yds from path, straight in, up to chest, my foot felt someting solid, I pushed, it crunched(sheep?) and I flapped onto bank - really,really, really scary.I wasn't alone but mate couldn't stop laughing so probably would have drowned had it been deeper.Originally Posted by Guick Dotto
2nd time heading across Matrag Moor on reccie of Langdale, knew I was in trouble when stepped into bog and all the weeds/moss/plants gently moved up and down as the wave went under them. Wierdest thing was how warm it was. Yet again, people to busy laughing to be of any use.
Moral of this tale? NEVER follow me across boggy ground, I have a nose for deep bits.
Bet it was the same sodding bog
Many years ago i fell in bog on Bleaklow.I went past my waist. It was at night as I was practising night navigation. I was only walking at the time. Had to get the saturday morning train from Glossop to Manchester. No-one else would sit in the same carriage as me due to smell of drying peat.
30 years and still here.
If you do fall into a bog your body will be well preserved.
The Fascinating Story of Bogs
In 1983, police in Macclesfield, located in Cheshire, England, were investigating reports that a man named Peter had murdered his wife, Malika, 23 years earlier. Some time before, he'd apparently boasted that he had killed her, dismembered her and buried her body in the back yard, yet when interviewed, he denied the accusations. The case stalled as police found no physical evidence against him. However, by some chance his back yard opened on to what had become a peat company's extraction site.
On May 13, men working on the peat elevator discovered a well-preserved skull which the forensic pathologist identified as a 30 to 50-year-old European female. When confronted with this discovery, Pete confessed to the murder. Police continued their investigation in the peat, and decided to involve Oxford University's Research Laboratory for Archaeology. Just before the case went to trial, Oxford came forward with a date for the skull-they had found it to be 1660-1820 years old....
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Don't ever fall in when you go to the bogs on the LAMM.
Not only will no bugger sit next to you, no bugger will pull you out either.
And as for the post-traumatic stress disorder ... job for BUPA, I'm afraid!
Winter Hill scares me. Having felt that wobbly ground feeling too many tiimes near the mast, I pussy foot around on there. have stopped going up there alone with the heavy rainfall...scared Sh!tless!
My pal Mick went up to his chest near Edenfield where they are building the Windmills.
There is noone around to hear you cry.
NO O O O O O O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I know the bog Huwski and Emmi,
The worst one I have fallen into is between Great Hill and Winter Hill. I was upto my chest. Moo was with me, she was no help whatsoever.
Hysterical (Moo) Cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkJC...eature=related - Wild Beasts
i was having a trot over bleaklow about 3 years ago when bang right up under my armpits, im about as tall as emmi as well
god it was unreal , i reallypanicked , there were walkers around but i was shook up for 5 minutes and had a sit down for a while at the stones .
i think im more aware now and spot them better
bleaklow has some very deep ones
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