The Bradfield Boundary Run has contrived to celebrate both its twentieth and twenty-first anniversaries in the same year. Last year was the twentieth year, but the extreme weather confounded our various attempts to get round. So this will be twentieth running, in the twenty-first year. A very special occasion, and Read more
OK. Decision time. The Boundary Run is OFF. There’s already black ice all over the pavements here at Loxley. We know that there’s deep unconsolidated snow on the tops, probably with an ice crust by morning and freezing winds. In these conditions, a Boundary completion is going to be impossible Read more
OK. Decision time. The Boundary Run is OFF. There’s already black ice all over the pavements here at Loxley. We know that there’s deep unconsolidated snow on the tops, probably with an ice crust by morning and freezing winds. In these conditions, a Boundary completion is going to be impossible Read more
Well, here we go again. Deja vu, Groundhog Day, call it what you like; the weather is once again conspiring to make successful completion of the Bradfield Boundary Run look extremely unlikely on Saturday. Intelligence from people who’ve been up high today suggests two feet of snow or more at Read more
Thanks to everybody who’s responded to the invite for ‘Bradfield Boundary Run Mk3’ and who’s said they’re coming along. Let’s hope it’s third time lucky after the two aborted dates at the turn of the year. It looks as though there’s more snow on the way, but let’s hope it Read more
There’s a renewed attempt to beat the weather and get round the Bradfield boundary. Saturday January 31st. Usual 6am start, and a little more daylight at the back end to get us through the Rivelin woods. Please ‘sign up’ via the Boundary Run Facebook group if you’d like to come Read more
Perhaps not the most imaginative of routes, but I wanted to make sure everyone was back before nightfall, I needed to keep away from the felling work, I wanted to find controls that we hadn’t used before, and I didn’t want you all to spend too long in neck-high bracken. Read more
The nights are drawing out, the summer solstice is nigh, and that means the copy deadline is fast approaching for the summer edition of Dark Peak News. Production Editor Tim Mackey is away on a dream holiday in the States for the next three weeks, but the Editor’s aim is Read more
The Loxley Lunge missed its usual July slot this year due to Organiser Lethargy Syndrome. Hence the spur-of-the-moment decision to have a gloomy dusk Friday evening running as part of a one-off Guerilla Tour of the Loxley Valley, taking in the Lunge and the Royal Dungworth on Saturday morning. Winner Read more
Just a reminder that the prize for the speed caption writing competition is a bottle of Jura’s finest. The task is a simple one: you just need to add an appropriately witty caption to a photograph of Simon Phipps and Nick Collier indulging in some decidedly strange behaviour. You can Read more