Quote Originally Posted by southernsoftie View Post
Details of yesterday's epic HPM recce.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/25619170

Neither this, nor the words so far written really do it justice!!

17.96mi (prob 18 dead where I forgot to restart it for a while after our bivvy/lunch stop), 2,085ft of climb, and a sh*tload of snow!! HPM purists among you will notice it doesn't follow the exact route round, but you know what? to you!!
I just viewed our 'line' off of Bleaklow with the satellite view and, as I thought, we were following the Pennine Way pretty dead on to begin with, albeit a snow clogged impassable version of it. I guess Ian headed off track to try and cut out the loop of the Pennine Way as it veers south east before heading back south west but we ended up going south westerly parallel with but way off the Pennine Way instead. All pretty irrelevant in that any which way was verging on impossible anyway . In the circumstances as good a line as any.

Thinking back it felt like the last 4 miles took as long as the first 14 . Probably a bit of an exaggeration but not far off for sure.