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<\/p>\nSetting off from Yorkshire Bridge Inn, Bob offered us an alternative to Priddock Wood which was gratefully and, dare I say, rather too enthusiastically accepted, to the possible disappointment of the absent Andy who was enjoying himself in the Lakes. However, we mainly ancient Warts were about to tread in the footsteps of ancient wayfarers who tramped the now little used holloway (not shown on the map) around the wood above the Ladybower dam wall. Unlike Priddock, it was just about runnable, in places, to bring us to one of the survey pillars on the edge of Bamford Moor where a splendid view of Ladybower could be enjoyed. (We have to grasp what little enjoyment we can on Warts\u2019 outings!) As we contoured round to Jarvis Clough, we began to realise the dangers of path running as the very worn vegetation provided an ideal conduit for the recent considerable rainfall. Grip was hard to come by in the mud though by stepping off the path on to the firmer, less used bracken and heather, some purchase was achieved. So, we Warts were reverting to type, voluntarily.<\/p>\n
Climbing out of Jarvis Clough we enjoyed the pleasure of winter bracken and its crunchy grip only for it to be spoilt by the sloppy mud on the track above. However, the stone circle there provided a welcome, maybe mystical, diversion before the descent to Cutthroat Bridge.<\/p>\n
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Daylight (!) stone circle photo thanks to Russ<\/em><\/p>\n Now in March, our 5pm start enabled about an hour\u2019s worth of no head torch use although some of us did wear them from the start to save faffing about when darkness did fall which was part way up the path (!) to Derwent Edge. There is always a feeling that other people\u2019s torch lights are more powerful than your own, so even on my highest setting, I found myself following other head torches and therefore tending to trip up, serves me right. I should stick with my own light!<\/p>\n We now explored more path slop as we contoured around on the path below the Edge before descending into Grainfoot Clough. Here we were able to explore some proper reedy Warting slop on a lower contour which included another ancient relic of a ruined farmhouse, rarely visited even by we Warts. Bob then gave us a choice of initially heading off in the wrong direction to join the A57 and then back to The Yorkshire Bridge Inn or follow the path with its climb and seriously deep mud to the back of the Ladybower. The prospect of any road running was not welcome so we took the path to the Ladybower which we discovered involved a four- or five-feet leap off a bramble covered wall, so we did have a bit of a Priddock experience after all. Then, there was no choice, the road had to be tackled and as Tim said, after a short time on it, that he totally understood why he so disliked road running, all very tedious. <\/p>\n Of course, the Yorkshire Bridge Inn did compensate for the horror of road running and, as you can imagine, the black unforgiving tarmac was quickly forgotten in the post run banter. <\/p>\n Another great night out!<\/p>\n Graham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Setting off from Yorkshire Bridge Inn, Bob offered us an alternative to Priddock Wood which was gratefully and, dare I say, rather too enthusiastically accepted, to the possible disappointment of the absent Andy who was enjoying himself in the Lakes. However, we mainly ancient Warts were about to tread in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}