Words by Pete, Photos by Butty & Pete
Crew : Butty, Pete, El Pres, Troll, TJ
Route : BL – Tea Rooms – Shining Tor – Hooleyhay Lane – Dead Man’s Hill – Blaze Hill descent – the Church House (Bolly)
Conditions : Clear & Cool. Cold wind on the tops.
Notes :
Eric friendly team size
Good , dry weather but a bit coolish
Ribaldry zone had kicked in at the first lay-by on the C& F road …can’t recall exactly why ?
Stunning sunset as we climbed from the Tea Rooms with the Curlews on full song as well !
Excellent decision to do the Shining Tor to Hooleyhay Lane route. It was delightfully dry and flowy.
I had a minor bit of tyre pressure faff before the final drop to Hooleyhay lane – much to the amusement of all as I was having to put back in some I had taken out. faffing cubed ! Doh.
Soon after our exit onto Hooleyhay Lane …. we had an impromptu meeting with two local farming chaps in a rather gnarly Mk1 Land Drover Discovery
They seemed to be rather worked up about their sheep getting spooked by our lights …
Mr I stood his ground , views were exchanged and then we moved on. Fortunately without further incident.
And quite liked the ratty-ness of their old , but modded Mk1 Disco.
At 8:40pm we were looking at the Lamaload car park and pondering the route to the pub – but via the Lamaload access road was not going to be viable in the time we had left.
Butty had already dialled in a 5 x Haddock & Chips order to the Church House – for just after 9pm.
A quick burst of energy to get us over Dead Man’s hill and we are descending happily towards the happy valley 🙂
Three beers and a dram for most . Food ok, service pretty good but a bit short on ambience in the back room.
Chilly on the return home under a crescent moon ? .
A fine evening …