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Mar 2021
9:07pm, 15 Mar 2021
4,616 posts
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mr d
Conversely ran the Coledale Horseshoe route in early August when it had been pissing down all day and we saw 4 people in total, but all coming up Barrow when we were coming down.
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Mar 2021
9:16pm, 15 Mar 2021
13,676 posts
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rf_fozzy
Well on a wet day the short hike up barrow or the slog up bloody grizedale pike?
I know what I'd be doing if I were walking...
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Mar 2021
9:29pm, 15 Mar 2021
7,471 posts
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Northern Exile
Just before the latest lockdown I managed to get out for a couple of days and climbed Grizedale Pike in the snow/ice. A couple of kids were pushing mountain bikes up despite the artic conditions, that was incredible but not quite as eye-opening as the couple that were lowering their toddler down the slope in the child's one-piece suit. Seriously, they were sliding it down the ice slope. One wrong move and that poor child would have ended up crashing down to the valley floor
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Mar 2021
9:40pm, 15 Mar 2021
20,184 posts
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Rosehip
some of the antics when we get a tiny bit of snow here are enough to make the toes curl of anyone who crashed a toboggan into a brick wall as a kid - but that is horrifying
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Mar 2021
9:14am, 16 Mar 2021
7,472 posts
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Northern Exile
I've probably undersold it. Ask me about it next time I see you.
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Mar 2021
5:43pm, 16 Mar 2021
19,750 posts
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flanker
Ros - still got the scars from doing exactly that (on the main descent of the only fell race in Leicestershire!)
It's always good to learn to self-arrest at an early age with a Fisher Price Ice Axe.
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Mar 2021
6:51pm, 16 Mar 2021
20,202 posts
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Rosehip
- me too and then I hit the same wall, probably less than a year later after an ill-considered skateboard race down the same road...
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Mar 2021
10:57pm, 16 Mar 2021
13,680 posts
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rf_fozzy
There's a fell race in Leicestershire?!
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Mar 2021
10:58pm, 16 Mar 2021
13,681 posts
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rf_fozzy
Actually, there's a fell in Leicestershire?!
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Mar 2021
11:05pm, 16 Mar 2021
20,214 posts
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Rosehip
Beacon Hill ?
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