Words by Pete , Photos by Pete, Butty & Bern
Crew : Pete , Butty , Ballster, El Pres, Bern , PTD , Troll,
Joining us mid ride : Kersh
Route : MC – Teggs – Leathers – Nessit – Standing Stone – Forest Chapel – Narnia – Hardingland – Sutton Hall
Conditions : Distinctly cooler, it threatened rain but we managed to escape the worst
Notes :
It was colder this week. 9c with a cool north west breeze.
Yippee for Lidgetts being open again , especially when the Kerridge Bridleway is now fairly muddy.
I could see a hefty shower in the far west by Beeston Castle and the Peckforton Hills .
I hoped we would avoid them , as I had no waterproof.
Paul took charge of the route . Good man. He called it “the three climbs”.
The Zig, the Zag , then at Windy ways we had a debate about the route down from Teggs.
Paul suggested Saddlers…but there was dissent and we took the traditional off piste routes down to the reservoir. But only after retrieving Paul who had a temporary bout of amnesia and was proceeding down Saddlers !
As we rode through Tegg’s the moonrise was spectacular. Hard to do it justice with a mobile phone pic but the crew were trying hard.
Up to the Leathers, we were doing a reverse Nessit when a load of e-bikes (almost all trek) passed us .
At Dan’s bench we discover one of the e-boys is Kersh.
He sees the light and joins the true faith .
Onwards to Climb #3
The Narnia path now has some “anti mtb” installations to prevent uncontrolled hooning, but they don’t impede proceedings too much. It was definitely a slippery descent.
As I waited to let Kersh and PTD pass me on the first section of hardingland I caught a flash of something grey moving low and fast to the left. Badger!
Mr Troll was suffering with iffy lighting, so he had to follow others down.
Just started to rain as we came past bottoms reservoir ….at the pub by 8:45 pm . 15 minutes early.
It was great to stand at the bar again and order fine beer
