LAST CALL for Carl Betts Mountain Skills course on Sunday. It is a great opportunity for new & established members to think about what we do in the hills & learn things – so please get in touch as we have a few spare places. See the Calendar entry…
A fairly select group of warts, including guest appearances from the Spinks and brother Winterburn, enjoyed a real Harmer classic, battling through head-high heather, bracken, bog and assorted filth, at sub 40-minute mile pace across Hobson Moss and similarly unprepossessing tracts of flatish moorland to a number of largely unremarkable Read more
End of the month for the first Winter Mondays race of the season, with training sessions every other week to work on your speed on the hills. All on tarmac, but if it’s good enough for Messrs Walker, Holmes and Spinks, then it’s good enough for me. With Keith smarting Read more
With just two fixtures left in the Carshare League, Mr. Rimmer has eked out a slender leader from @DPCalendar and Carshare respectively. Still time to pre-enter at Langdale, with 27 brown vests already signed up, and always a great race. Carshare’s notes here. As for Guisborough 3 Tops, well Carshare’s Read more
As per the recent piece in DP News, Carl Betts and friends are putting on a Mountain Skills Course, free to all DP members, on Sunday 6th Oct, 9am to 4pm-ish. The day will be based at the Pure Outdoor Education Centre in Stoney Middleton, but is intended to be Read more
The Winter Wednesday night calendar has now been uploaded, listing club road and wartin’ runs. After the categorical complexities of last year’s version, we’re returning (I hope) to just the one routine warts listing, with ad hoc alternatives to the Sportsman based runs being advertised roughly a week beforehand via Read more
Commiserations to Jim and Keith on their heroic failure to conquer the Ramsay this weekend. It seems slightly absurd to claim the weather was just too good, but rest assured the hottest day of the year in the Glens is not the one to attempt this big round in a Read more
Following #6 at Yetholm six weeks ago, the ageless Mr Rimmer has snuck into top slot in the league, with Carshare lurking in third place. Young Mr Holmes (Keith) has been at repeated pains, ever since, to point out that he won the team prize on the day, hosting Messrs Read more
Huge thanks to everybody who donated a squid or two to the cause. We’ve now raised nearly £4,500; three quarters of the cost of an Odyssey holiday, and we’ll be drawing the two Dragon’s Back DVD winners out of a hat next Saturday 20th July (so there’s still time to Read more
On Tuesday morning at 7am, Nicky Spinks, Clare Oliffe, myself and a bunch of others much more likely than me to make it all the way will be setting off from Conwy Castle to retrace the route of the original 1992 Dragon’s Back race (give or take the odd road checkpoint). Read more