Good effort, Stolly, hope there wasn't too much trouble and strife on your return
Love hurts
Good effort, Stolly, hope there wasn't too much trouble and strife on your return
Love hurts
they look like cracking runs via pyg and plover. Nice mud bath mate
Ah, just caught up with this thread and seen the Bronte Way photos....I know who you are now Stolly!! I remember passing you or you passing me or both(!) during the first half of the race. I was the one in the green Newport vest. Ended up stopping to try and help the lad at Bronte Bridge.
I shall say hello next time I see you then....are you at Withins this weekend?
and where were you yesterday young man??? you got a big red cross on the registerOriginally Posted by Mr1470
Sorry missand where were you yesterday young man??? you got a big red cross on the registerAm I in a lot of trouble?
I was to be found in darkest Shropshire, plodding around very slowly, feeling slightly under the weather.
23rd October 2008 - An extended Settle Loop over Rye Loaf Hill and er... other hills - about 12.25 miles and 2,400 ft of ascent
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I finished work at lunchtime today and, although it was pissing with rain and really windy, I felt the urge for a run. This time I fancied opening up a previously unexplored ridge above Settle, providing a slightly wider arc and more climb onto what would otherwise more or less follow the well trod Settle Loop out towards Malham and back. This ridge makes up the south easterly side of the Stockdale valley and incorporates High Greet and Rye Loaf Hill, from which (on a fine day) you can see for miles and miles. Unfortunately today wasn't a fine day....
Anyway I set off following my normal trudge up to Lodge Farm, up the muddy bridleway and Lambert's Lane until I reached the road where I veered right following the road to Scaleber Force:
On the opposite side of the road here is open moor side leading up to a radar tower at the top of High Greet. To begin with I had a choice of two tracks but, as is usual, the one I chose soon disappeared into a trackless, waist high cotton grass and tussocky hill side - just the sort of stuff I always end up hacking through when ever I run with Ady from Accy:
My path actually took me too far to the north but I eventually got to the radar mast after wading through bogs and tussocks and stuff and hopping over a couple of walls. Now with a wall to the left I was on an actual path with Rye Loaf Hill directly in front. I managed to clamber up to the trig here and look back down the Stockdale valley towards High Hill, Attermire and Warrendale Knotts where I hoped to re-emerge towards the end of my looping run.
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My path now decided to run out on me again so, with a bit more tussocky fun and wall hopping, I finally made it down to the Pennine Bridleway and my normal Settle Loop path. The rain was getting stingy and heavier now and the wind really picked up when I started on the return leg, following a seemingly never ending track along the bridleway in a straight line for Langcliffe. Everything looked bleak here and I was totally alone in a huge rain splattered landscape - it kind of reminded me of the opening scene in American Werewolf in London to be honest where the two american tourists are hiking through a moor on their way to the Slaughtered Lamb. Fortunately there were no werewolves today though:
Once at Attermire I decided to add in one more hill and climbed to the trig on Warrendale Knotts before dropping down and zooming down the final descent into Settle. A brilliant run with some new ground added to my ever widening knowledge of the area - 2 hours and 8 minutes.
good stuff Stolly, love the pictures.Resigned to a treadmill in the gym today, no where near as motivational
Good 'un Stolly!. How exactly do you get the pictures on the pages?
Stolly's secret that'unGood 'un Stolly!
I've tried but wi'out success...yet
Nice steady 12.25 miles Stolly, good pics as usual, are you doing Withins and if so will I be skipping passed you again,
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