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<\/p>\nThe holiday season or maybe the approaching year end has inspired a burst of sartorial elegance in the ranks of the Warts in the form of a pair of plus fours worn over standard running tights by our technology officer, Chris. An original pair of \u00a312 full length over trousers had been cut by tailor Chris to half length into a pair of cosy thigh warmers now being paraded as pantaloons on this very windy winter\u2019s evening. Chris claimed that, in a year\u2019s time, all of us would be wearing this essential winter Warts\u2019 wear, with much pride. Who knows how and whether this fashionable trend will be taken up? <\/p>\n
Our enthusiastic admiration of the thigh warmers affected our ability to count, having set off from Moscar Cross with seemingly nine of us but retaining through the outing and returning with only eight, we have since not heard of any missing Warts so we can relax. The originally planned clockwise tour of Derwent Moors and Edge was changed to an anti-clockwise tour which was a helpful change. We were therefore not faced with an uphill struggle through heather and against the wind to Wheel Stones, instead, a run along Strines Edge continuing by the boundary stones across Raddlepit Rushes, took us to the Edge via a track which eventually disappeared. <\/p>\n
A masterly bit of navigation brought us directly to the whiskey stop of Salt Cellar which can only be seen from our direction about 30m from it, in the light and the dark. We scampered over the edge through some tricky rocks which provided me with some slippery moments, after all Hoka shoes are not the grippiest. The sight and frustration of all my staggering and sliding prompted Penny, in the best possible taste, to suggest the use of Saucony Peregrine shoes (they have wings).<\/p>\n
The younger (fast) Warts reached the lower Edge path where a critical decision had to be made at the gate for the descent to the pack horse bridge. There was a vocal preference for omitting the pleasure of the bridge and the joyful climb back up to the Edge via the NT barn near Grindle Clough, so, because it was Christmas, Andy took us along the wall path. This relatively easy running seemed to cause withdrawal symptoms so the beckoning of the bracken brought a sharp left turn into it, to avoid any more-cold turkey experience.<\/p>\n
A good blast of wind on the Edge path encouraged us on to Wheel Stones for our return over a surprising amount of possibly newly mown heather. It was, of course, necessary to closely examine any remaining heather in some detail which was facilitated by a full length fall on to my nose, this was no real problem except in the lights of the pub which showed a decorative dribble of blood down my nose. <\/p>\n
Despite any spilt blood, the wild windy outing was a grand and splendid and the warm fire in the Strines Inn completed the wonderful evening. Thanks to all!<\/p>\n
Graham<\/p>\n
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Track thanks to Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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