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<\/p>\nThe Met office mountain forecast was for an evening of 80% \u201cdouble\u201d rain when I looked in the morning but by the time we had reached Blackden through all the traffic lights on the way there, it was pleasantly warm and sunny. Waterproofs were largely abandoned by the seven Slow Warts who welcomed the return of Roger from his strict three-week training schedule of custard filled croissants and cool mountain pool swimming in the Italian Appennine hills. Roger\u2019s presence, however, presented us with a problem, we were seven last Wednesday (no Roger) and we were still seven at Blackden, so who was missing? The collected brain power of the Slow Warts could not recall our missing one so we set off hoping that the flow of blood as we climbed The Wicken, would stimulate the cells to remember our unforgettable comrade. It did. Andy remembered it was Chris, who had left for Portugal to attend to matters (a blocked loo) of his estate there. <\/p>\n
Leaving such esoteric thoughts behind, we continued our climb to Seal Edge, pausing to admire the slumpage\/landslide on the opposite side of the valley, the final target of our Blackden Round. Before that, Andy\u2019s plan was to visit the two Hartshorns. It is a curious feature of the Blackden Moor that there are a couple of named places which have a possible confusing alternative, the Hartshorns and the Madwoman\u2019s Stones, the latter having possibly three locations though Tom did provide the definitive one, the middle set. <\/p>\n
Following direct lines is a characteristic of Slow Warting, so most of us did, to get to Hartshorn 1, though surprisingly, noted Clive, Andy did tread a forbidden (by Warts) path there. However, all was forgiven on the direct way to the less impressive Hartshorn 2. <\/p>\n
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Hartshorn 2, I think<\/em><\/p>\n What was impressive further on though, was a collection of lightly coloured rocks near Blackden Edge which had a couple of the letter R\u2019s carved into them. Was this the time to give these rocks a name? Russ and Roger were each obvious candidates for the honour but no decision could be made. What about combining the two?<\/p>\n Did anyone ever say going downhill was easy, but not so, on our descent to the slumpage. It was certainly rough ground with hidden rocks together with the usual impediments plus the crossing of a steep slope. I\u2019m convinced my left foot was progressively being compressed into half its size in the Hoka shoe, though it (the foot) had recovered by the time we reached more level ground. <\/p>\n It has become traditional for me to run or attempt to run the last exponential climb from the bridge to the car park. Such was the competitive nature (?) of Slow Warts, that the challenge was taken up and whilst I did run all the way, others, Russ, Tom and Tim managed to walk past me. Who, though, had the moral high ground?<\/p>\n The rain came as we were going to the Yorkshire Bridge Inn where we discussed and resolved global problems, principally in Andy\u2019s absence in the Lakes next week, where, leaderless, we would go next Wednesday night. Needless to say, Andy left us with a plan!<\/p>\n A glorious night out with, I think, one hare and no people sighted, what could be better!<\/p>\n Graham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Met office mountain forecast was for an evening of 80% \u201cdouble\u201d rain when I looked in the morning but by the time we had reached Blackden through all the traffic lights on the way there, it was pleasantly warm and sunny. Waterproofs were largely abandoned by the seven Slow […]<\/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-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","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=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}