Seven Slow Warts bravely set off from Westend lay-by to face one of the more challenging Summer Series races, the Way Out West, appropriately abbreviated to WOW. Any crossing of the Alport river will always be a serious strenuous undertaking but the magnificent views will always compensate for each of Read more
Pessimism or optimism? A glance at the Mountain Weather forecast web site showed a temperature of about 12⁰C and a “feels like” temperature of 4⁰C for Kinder Low, the nearest forecast location to our Slow Warts’ outing from Blackden. Between us, we ignore this information or dress accordingly, usually finding Read more
Yes, I know our regular day for Slow Warts was changed to Tuesday this week but it was nevertheless poor weather, very wet, to say the least. So, it seems that the Slow Warts cannot avoid challenging weather whichever day we choose, it was so extreme that we didn’t leave Read more
Could we manage a quorum? After a morning of WhatsApp to-ing and fro-ing, we managed a foursome of promises, to come to Rowlee Bridge. The rest of the Slow Warts had good excuses (off to Jura, the effects of treatment, etc.) and bad excuses, mainly the weather forecast of a Read more
The King’s Tree outing last week and the Cap’n’s absence then, must have distorted our collective Slow Warts’ minds (easily done) into deciding to start this week’s later outing from Callow Bank on the basis it was close to the Norfolk Arms where the DPFR AGM was to be held Read more
There were four suggestions, from seven of us, for possible routes from King’s Tree; straight up Cold Side and beyond, Linch Clough to Barrow Stones, Slippery Stones to Bull Stones and part of the December Birthday race route. In the absence of Andy, sharpening his fitness in the Lakes and Read more
Now in broad daylight on the first of May, the Slow Warts could better see where they were going so there was less chance of doing the odd bit of circling around to find checkpoints. To compensate for this, we instead went searching for circles and found three, two stone Read more
The Slow Warts tend to run together and therefore protect themselves from the harsh reality of the high performances of the “standard” Warts and the rest of DPFR. However, we bravely took on the challenge of the latest Cakes of Bread Race organised for the second year by Tom W Read more
After a late change of venue from Redmires (ironically there was a road race!} to the gas station, we were guided there by a distinctly sinister black cloud hanging over it. The Wednesday Warts’ weather was maintaining its reputation for challenging conditions. Setting off to New Cross (remains of), we Read more
It was a daylight and wintry evening for the second outing after the changing of the clocks. As is routine for a Wednesday evening, the eight Slow Warts set off in heavy drizzle and a coolish (cold) strong south westerly, from Strines at 4.53, seven minutes early. Other Slow Warts Read more