yes indeed we have.Originally Posted by Bogmonster
Team Tiggers Brown vest had an early start this morning.
First Nav problem was finding Snake summit!!.... No really! pitch black and 5 metre vis due to clag, You could hardly see the side of the road and certainly nothing beyond it, Completely missed it on the way out and didn't realise I'd missed it untill I started to descend and had to drive towards Glossop until out of the clag to turn round(only a fool would pull a Uturn in those conditions), Turned on the GPS to find the lay by....Crazy!!
We were in thick clag by the fence line on the way up to Howden Edge but at least we didn't need torches. A good thaw had left it very muddy but there was still snow and ice lingering in places, the ground was very mixed, one step and the bog was frozen under a thin layer of melt, the next was knee deep, tough going but we plodded along in to quite a strong cold NW'ly
From Swains head the route has been changed quite considerably with the whole area having been reseeded. all the bogs/path/trods have been covered in cut heather making route finding...different? I had to pause once or twice to check we were right(we were).
High up in the cloughs there are now lots(yes lots) of new dams that weren't there last week. These are made of stone so please becareful not to break them down. Still patches of deep snow on Bleaklow and with more snow forcasted for this weekend it can only get worse.
A quick scamper over from BS to Bleaklow Summit and on to WS, patches of hard ice and snow paticularly on the paved section of the PW to SS
Vis all the way was never better than 20-30 m until the last half mile when the sun finally came out and we saw our first walkers.
17.4 in 4.03 with one minor wander as we chatted. would have done sub 4.00 with out so very happy with that.
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