{"id":2727,"date":"2014-12-10T23:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2014-12-10T23:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:14:24","slug":"tnr-4-12-2014-a-toast-to-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"TNR 4-12-2014 \u2013 A toast to Dan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/15791275228\/in\/set-72157647338189604\/player\/\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Words by Eric<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Crew;<\/strong> Butty, Mr I, Slim, Dr S, Stunt, 3 Sheds, Kersh, El Pres, Coley, Eric<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the pub;<\/strong> Dunc, PTD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lame excuses;<\/strong> 3 Sheds, &#8211; not back in time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Route<\/strong>; New Buxton Road,  Charity, N\/S descent, Lower LHS, climb towards Greenbarn, Hardings, Hanging Gate, Fourways, Croker Hill, Gritstone trail ,Ryles Arms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions<\/strong>; Warmest ever stop atop Croker Hill, muddiest descent!<br \/>\n<strong>Stats<\/strong>; Butty, puncture; Kersh, seized rear brake<br \/>\n<strong>Offs;<\/strong> No admissions.<\/p>\n<p>The evening\u2019s route objective of Croker Hill and the distribution of liquid weight at the start gave some clue as to the libations planned for later; but a new record start time of 19 o\u2019clock hundred hours left us with a mountain to climb to get round and get to the Ryles in time for tea.<\/p>\n<p>The climb up to the bottom of Charity seemed rather longer than usual but the descent was surprisingly dry and lots of fun. It felt strange turning right at the bottom rather than left for a visit to the NS descent seen of many notable dismounts in the past. The notorious water bars, slipperier than polished ice, didn\u2019t claim any victims this time round with the tracks oddly and remarkably dry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/15792921947\/in\/set-72157647338189604\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Normally the LHS descent is the last leg to the pub but tonight it was the precursor to the long road bash past then end of the White Rabbit descent, over the Hanging Gate, Fourways and up to Croker. It was heavy going for most but extra heavy for Kersh who was dragging a seized rear caliper. Subtle adjustment by bashing his 29er on the road in the style of Basil Fawlty gave some relief.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/15792924957\/in\/set-72157647338189604\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nStealth mode engaged for the climb past the summit farm, only heavy breathing allowed until we reached the Gin and Tonic spot. For the first time ever it wasn\u2019t blowing a howling gale up there, in fact it was positively tropical as very firm gins were produced. Many thanks to the logistics wizards who produced gin, iced lemons, ice, and chilled tonic all served in appropriately sized pint glasses. Then meat based provender and English Mustard was magic\u2019d from nowhere \u2013 Marvellous.<br \/>\nGlasses were raised to Dan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/15356387274\/in\/set-72157647338189604\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the gin gate a new danger awaited, as Coley described them \u2013 cow piss puddles; no more description required. Through the CPP\u2019s and onto the whoopin\u2019 and a hollerin\u2019 descent. All except Butty who punctured one of his tubeless tyres and then found that his lucky spare tube wasn\u2019t that lucky. <\/p>\n<p>The advanced party arrived at the Ryles at 9.04 to cries of \u201cyer dinners on the table\u201d \u2013 woe betide the latecomers. Black Sheep and giant portions of food were the order of the day. Mr I and El Pres were beaten by the cod \u2013 but Stunt was a bit more canny and kept his arm pads on allowing him to be the only person claiming a finish at the table. I can\u2019t believe that TNR were reduced to accepting the offer of doggie bags.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/15359034503\/in\/set-72157647338189604\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Long drag home but worth it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words by Eric Crew; Butty, Mr I, Slim, Dr S, Stunt, 3 Sheds, Kersh, El Pres, Coley, Eric In the pub; Dunc, PTD Lame excuses; 3 Sheds, &#8211; not back in time Route; New Buxton Road, Charity, N\/S descent, Lower LHS, climb towards Greenbarn, Hardings, Hanging Gate, Fourways, Croker Hill, Gritstone trail ,Ryles Arms Conditions; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tnrs-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}