A great blast over Plover Hill and Pen y Ghent on Saturday with H's 1 and 2 with lots of lovely mud to plough through. We all felt both invigorated and battered by the wind which was blowing a hoolie but it was a grand run and we fairly pushed it all the way round. A lovely pint of tea and a slab of cake in the 3 Peaks cafe in Horton after and jobs a good 'un.
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| The H Team setting off |
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| My handy rock chair |
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| Quite firm going for Plover Hill to be honest |
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| Stile-ish Hester |
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| Misty on top and, although you can't see it, flipping windy too |
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| Follow me, down here! |
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| Flapping your arms is an important fell running technique |
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| Hes and Haz disappearing into the wilds |
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| The final race back to Horton |
On Sunday we ran the Fairfield Horseshoe back to front (anti-clockwise) with an accidentally added 4 mile extension but the 'Fieldfair shoehorse' as it will from this day be known turned out to be an inspired 13 mile route, even if I say so myself. Me Harry and Hester joined Andrew and Stef (who'd only gone and got engaged the evening before) and Ian on the way round and stopped off briefly at Darren Holloway's memorial plaque on a very breezy Hart Crag going up. I took us down the wrong ridge line after Great Rigg but the whole run was truly glorious, albeit taking a bit longer than planned.
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| Ze route |
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| Harry (the small black and white dot) blazing the trail ahead of us |
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| Looking back towards Ambleside and Windermere |
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| Our descent on the other side of the horseshoe |
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| As views go, not so bad |
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| Looking back from below Hart Crag |
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| We went right here but should theoretically gone left |
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| Grasmere ahoy! But we need to get back to Ambleside..... |
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| X marks the spot of Daz's plaque |
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ReplyDeleteHi - great pics. Have you the grid ref for Darren's plaque?
ReplyDeleteI don't have a map to hand to look up the grid reference but I've included a bing maps X marks the spot picture above. Its actually above Hart Crag on a rocky outcrop - if you're going round anti-clockwise its relatively easy to see but, going the other way, you might easily miss it
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