{"id":845978,"date":"2024-01-18T15:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=845978"},"modified":"2024-01-18T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:24:45","slug":"come-back-andy-all-is-forgiven-17-jan-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/845978","title":{"rendered":"Come back Andy, all is forgiven – 17 Jan 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cCome back Andy, all is forgiven\u201d Chris\u2019s plea at about 7pm on Wednesday 17th<\/sup> January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether it was the cold (very) or our navigation that caused this comment I\u2019m not sure, but I suspect it was both. There were just five Slow Warts (Chris, Tim, Simon, Jim and me) at Broomhead where the \u201cfeels like\u201d temperature was about -8\u2070C if not lower. As we had moved away from the longest night, towards summer, we had the short lived pleasure of a clear-sky winter sunset. Whilst the track looked surprisingly tempting, Chris decided that there was a need to explore an ancient monument, a) because we needed to improve our local historical knowledge and b) because Wednesday night is also when the Slow Warts need to maintain their Harmerian quota. Despite the fact that we were promised a decent path in the ancient ditch boundary between Northumbria and elsewhere, time had done its job increasing the undergrowth to ensure we had the full experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did reach the shooting cabin where, conveniently, its south facing wall provided some relative warmth from the northern wind but, all good things must finish and we left to face the wind on a narrow path which was sufficiently challenging, being narrow and snow covered, with ice and cold water beneath, to satisfy the hard men in the group had. Our second check point after the cabin was the lower bridge on Oaken Clough at this path end and then the third CP at the higher bridge. We achieved the lower one but we missed the upper one which can be hard enough to find in even daylight. So, we conferred and targeted the Landrover track which we saw traces of but failed to follow it to the red pyramids, no, I\u2019m not hallucinating, but instead found some small red posts. We cut our losses and went directly to the Dukes Road where we confirmed our antipathy to long hard tracks with a dose of aversion therapy. It was very hard on the feet and legs. Surprisingly, it felt slightly quicker than the traditional way through to the Rushy Dike crossing. There was yet more track as we peered into the darkness looking for The Cairn which looked smaller than expected but it was found and ticked off. A rough bearing was taken, and then duly ignored, as we subsequently drifted left into some very deep heather, obviously to make up for all the track running. Chris again checked on the technology and lead us successfully to the Landrover track. I don\u2019t think the Cap\u2019n would have been very pleased with our performance, hence Chris\u2019s comment as we were finishing the outing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We changed quickly though frozen laces meant keeping freezing shoes on for the pub where discussions ranged from Jim\u2019s Irish relations to deciding that Andy would be asked to decide next week\u2019s venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grand, cold outing thanks to all but would Andy have managed without gloves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last night\u2019s track thanks to Chris<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCome back Andy, all is forgiven\u201d Chris\u2019s plea at about 7pm on Wednesday 17th January 2024 Whether it was the cold (very) or our navigation that caused this comment I\u2019m not sure, but I suspect it was both. There were just five Slow Warts (Chris, Tim, Simon, Jim and me) […]<\/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-845978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845978","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=845978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845980,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845978\/revisions\/845980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}