Crew: El Pres, Slim, 3 Sheds, Butty, Stunt, Dunc
Pub: PTD
Route: BL, Tea rooms, Stakeside descent, rat run exploration, Pyms Chair, dead mans hill, blaze hill, poachers
Conditions: Dry, windy higher up.
Stats: another stat free night?
Notes:
Time to head further afield now that swampy conditions have subsided.
Prompt start to get out to the Goyt and back, 3 Sheds heads out first..
and has there been secret training? his “plod” turns out to be pretty speedy!
Dunc and Stunt get dropped before digging in for a determined pursuit that finally reels him yards before the tearooms.
Mild start at BL now forgotten as wind is now cutting.
Trails soft but not slippy, full stakeside descent – lower section fast and fun -a welcome return.
Butty takes us in search of a rat boy trail he found last year
tight and twisty with some Gnarr jumps, too soft to flow but maybe worth a return in the dry?
Pub debate swings in favour of bolly, not time to lose though and crew strings out over Pyms chair, out running cars down to jenkin chapel!
Burning legs up to dead mans hill, cold faces into wind down blaze hill.
Beat the nancies into the bar, tactical cokes for some of the front runners, before Eric’s pic of Leffe in Brussles leads to an inevitable leffe oclock session (pub runs out of blonde shocker!). Food is devoured double quick for a second week in a row, and PTD does arrive even though we have gone north!
Pete almost stacks some ZZZeds before finally coming to life for the obligatory snifter 🙂
The Archives Section :
Here we step back in time to find a photo from Pete’s archive which relates to this week’s ride.
Here we find the crew on a springtime jaunt into the Goyt Valley back in April 2006.