Like most places on the Snake Road, there are only a few limited parking spaces but we were welcomed at Rowlee Bridge by Jim O, without a hi-viz jacket, directing us into a muddy space. He continued his duties for the other three cars neatly squeezing them in so effectively Read more…
What is extreme sport? Climbing Everest without oxygen support, rowing the Atlantic, running the Pennine way or traversing the sides of Abbey Brook, the latter being the Slow Warts’ January challenge from Fairholmes. We didn’t know it was going to be a challenge until later. Andy’s route seemed more like Read more…
There can be a snag in referring to the Met. Office mountain weather forecasts which I did before setting off from Snake Bridge. The “feels like” temperature (apparently a 1⁰ drop for a wind speed increase of 10 mph?) was forecast to be –3⁰C at Kinder Low, so with four Read more…
An unexpected encounter in the Ewden valley resulted in the questioning of our group sanity by ourselves and by a local farmer who had spotted lights moving down the valley. He’d come out to investigate, only to find seven old bemused men stumbling around in the dark. Whilst not actually Read more…
Is it a subconscious desire for warmth that the Slow Warts have visited a series of fireplaces during recent winter outings? A few weeks ago, we came across the ruins of a small stone hut with a fireplace and a still intact chimney, above Lawrencefield quarries. Last Tuesday’s (yes, Tuesday, Read more…
To avoid the results of the excesses of New Year’s Eve on New Year’s Day, which happened to be a Wednesday, the Slow Warts decided on an outing on New Year’s Eve morning. By going on Tuesday, we would surely avoid the usual Slow Warts’ Wednesday woeful winter wet and Read more…
Christmas and birthdays fortunately only come round once a year. Our last run before Christmas this year was on the week before, and nearly a week before my birthday. I was treated right royally with a sparkling lemon drizzle cake magically produced by Penny out of her sac, at the Read more…
There was something missing for the eight Slow Warts’ outing from Strines Inn. Previously we’d had our doses of rain and had been suitably togged up, Tonight, there was no rain, just cold and grey, not that we could see the latter in the dark. We were still dressed for Read more…
We were pleased to welcome Chris back, with his Barber bloomers, after his sojourn in warm and sunny Portugal although he was probably not very keen on the wet and windy weather facing the Slow Warts setting off from Mortimer Road/Thornseat Road. We had our usual discussions on health status Read more…
Just how many Warts are there? There was confusion about who would be at the start and when. There were the Willy Warts who were rumoured to be coming but, after some discussion, we decided they were not. Then there were the Warts (no qualifying adjective) who were coming later Read more…