{"id":3730,"date":"2018-04-06T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2018-04-10T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T21:34:22","slug":"tnr-5-04-2018-high-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3730","title":{"rendered":"TNR 5-04-2018 High &#038; Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/40478407745\/in\/album-72157692373901212\/\" title=\"IMG_3543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/820\/40478407745_b96fffb552_c.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" alt=\"IMG_3543\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>words by Alex, Pics by Pete &#038; Butty <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crew:<\/strong> PTD, El Pres, Butty, TJ, Mr Inc, Slim, Stunt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pub:<\/strong> Dunc<\/p>\n<p><strong>Route:<\/strong> BL, New Road, Cat, Danebower hollow, Cumberland clough, Standing Stone, Sutton Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions:<\/strong> Dry, Mild, Still a lot of standing water in places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First ride in the light for many, and after a beautiful sunny day, an evening with mainly clear skies, and light breezes.<\/p>\n<p>Assembling at BL (with Joe again seeing us off), much chat, excitement at pie provisioning, rapid recovery of presidential mustard, and a quick trip for some cooking whisky!<\/p>\n<p>In honour of a ride 6 years ago where we parked bikes in the snow (and nearly lost Joe down a snow hole!) El Pres leads us up high.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/41330184292\/in\/album-72157692373901212\/\" title=\"IMG_0440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/869\/41330184292_89e86a053f_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"IMG_0440\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The lighter evening brings new delights for the eyes and ears on the long ride up. Red tinged clouds on the horizon as the sun slowly sets, the eerie calls of the curlews, the angry buzz of the early season motorbikers, still the washed out watercolours of the moors still in faded winter clothing of grey, brown and insipid green, and the Wrekin, Long Mynd and the Clwyeds all clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p>Regrouping at the tea rooms (and donning extra layers, as the wind up high has a sharp edge to it), we light up and head out across Danebower into wind.<\/p>\n<p>Fences at the end have been repaired..entrance gate at Chumby has not!<\/p>\n<p>My word chumby has got chunky over the winter!! big holes, big rocks and more bedrock steps have appeared. Those with big tyres and or big suspension very glad they had!<\/p>\n<p>The gate by the waterfall has been repaired with new hinges..just a shame they are an inch too low, the gate grinding through the dirt to open and close!?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/40478399855\/in\/album-72157692373901212\/\" title=\"IMG_0459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/872\/40478399855_1eaf1de708_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"IMG_0459\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tis time to have assorted sausage rolls (from Troll&#8217;s travels), pork and black pudding pie, accompanied by English mustard, and washed down with Famous Grouse (which went very well with it all!!)<\/p>\n<p>Refreshed (and possibly a little cold), Cumberland brook proved as challenging as the Clough, just with added water, and although running deeper than normal on the track, the Ford at the bottom was at normal levels.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/41330171742\/in\/album-72157692373901212\/\" title=\"IMG_0447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/791\/41330171742_e031e99115_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IMG_0447\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Still light in the sky against the sillouhette of the hills, trundling along wildboarclough, a big tree down over the stream still in place (the portion over the road having been removed).<\/p>\n<p>Standing stone food order to Sutton hall suffers from comms failure part way through, and with trees down on all the available route options other than the road, we opt to secure the food via route 1.<\/p>\n<p>New flagstone path from the garden gate feels like a red carpet to welcome us home.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/41330167422\/in\/album-72157692373901212\/\" title=\"IMG_0457\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/789\/41330167422_4a5d173966_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"IMG_0457\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lucan, Hoegarden and malted milk stout satisfy all varieties of thirst, food is devoured (crispy beef salad disappoints again, and El Pres bemoans the lack of chips with his cheese pie)<\/p>\n<p>Much catching up, tales of skiing recent and plans to come, a predictable decent into raucousness with arrival of Dunc, and a very moderate uptake on final whisky.<\/p>\n<p>Great to have TJ back, spring season starting well.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/41373158331\/in\/album-72157692373901212\/\" title=\"IMG_0461\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/797\/41373158331_4e6abfb472_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" alt=\"IMG_0461\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>words by Alex, Pics by Pete &#038; Butty Crew: PTD, El Pres, Butty, TJ, Mr Inc, Slim, Stunt Pub: Dunc Route: BL, New Road, Cat, Danebower hollow, Cumberland clough, Standing Stone, Sutton Hall Conditions: Dry, Mild, Still a lot of standing water in places. 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