Originally Posted by Stolly
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.
never the less it was a mistake that I should not have made. Cold tired and trying to keep up the pace to get us off. time looking at the map featureless as it was would have saved us a bit of time
My mistake was not stopping and checking the map. (even though 2 maps blew away) and running on a bearing given by mamalaids GPS even though it was correct but not accounting for terrain.
Having a closer look, that stone we saw sticking up at that grough was put there by metwo years ago. slap bang on one of my race lines
Interesting looking at the loop on the PW before HC as we tried to contour round the big drift in the stream bed. The whole moor was alien to me.
The timing was right we averaged 1 MPH over Bleaklow
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