Old men tend to tell tales of their youth, and the Serious Warts are no exception. For those who had been prepared to listen to us (not many, admittedly), we had recounted a recent experience in what we thought were Read more

After last week’s gentle downhill start, we reverted to the brutal normality of an uphill one from Birchen Clough from the cars up to anticipated feels like temperatures of minus 4⁰C in the strongish wind. The usual debate started on Read more

Our recent past outings have been veering on the wild side, with snow and ice at a feels like temperature of about minus 12⁰C, on Kinder edge and semi remoteness at the three sheeper sheep fold near Barrow Stones. Our Read more

Having arrived at the sheepfold, formerly known as the three-sheeper (because, surprisingly, it was thought to hold three of them), we started the now routine discussion of just how many it actually could contain. Certainly, more than three, possibly six Read more

It’s mid-February, so what would you expect but winter weather which we six Serious (Slow) Warts certainly did have, on our foray into a feels-like minus 12⁰C. Our start from the Snake Bridge, was just about tolerable, perhaps acclimatising us Read more

We were never more than about a mile from the car park on our latest moderately epic outing from Odin’s Mine. So, it was short, a total of three miles, which took about an hour and a half (at 2 Read more

How do you maintain your balance skills? The Serious (Slow) Warts are not exactly in the prime of their youth so many of our pre-outing discussions on Wednesday nights concentrate on attempting to defy the ravages of time, knees, ankles, Read more

Having decided last week that we were going to explore the infamous and daunting Ouzeldon, Alport Grain and Cote Clough complex, instead, we opted, on the day, for not exploring it after all unless we do it in daylight. Maybe Read more