To weekend of 17th / 18th December

Tom Brunt has resurrected last year’s popular Twelve Trigs of Christmas challenge, details of which are in the calendar and elsewhere. Last year’s winner (ahem!) tramped many a lonely mile to high remote trigpoints in the Highlands and elsewhere. The star of the show however was undoubtedly Rachel Thorley who scoured the Fens and other lowland areas, found and visited a dozen low lying trigs near roads one of which was below mean sea level. Brilliant!

Canoeists and open water swimmers might consider making their way to St. Kilda. Whilst the trig’s elevation is a mere 375 metres, it is approximately 67 km from the nearest tarmacked road on North Uist and so would score a massive 25,125 points.

Past races

Peak Raid: Eastern Moors – Jennifer Hack 1^st woman, Jon Moulding 6^th, Lucy Wiegand 1^st F50, Andy Bell 2^nd M60 Results

Bill Fox Gravy Pud – Alison Wainwright 1^st LV50, Results

Dark Peak Stones –

Upcoming races

Sunday 18^th December – Crookstone Crashout, the first of the Christmas treats and not to be missed, not least as this, the 76^th edition, will be the last Crashout organised by Andy H. Carsharing essential.

Wednesday 21^st December – Headstone Carols, an event suitable for the tone deaf, followed by curry which will be on offer at The Sportsman.

Saturday 24^th December – Christmas Eve Breakfast Run

Monday 26^th December – Boxing Day Bogtrot, from Burbage Bridge

Monday 26^th December – Two Turtle Doves, from Totley AC Pavillion. Pre-entry only.

Saturday 7^th January – Moz’s Birthday Run. One of the very best of the Dark Peak races. Highly recommended.

Sunday 8^th January – Trigger. Anyone for the Moz’s / Trigger double?

JimP

Saturday 10^th December, 2022