{"id":3877,"date":"2018-10-22T20:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2018-10-22T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:22:14","slug":"tnr-18th-october-2018-belligerent-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"TNR 18th October 2018: Belligerent Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Badger-illustration-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Badger-illustration-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3876\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Badger-illustration-2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Badger-illustration-2-768x1026.jpg 768w, http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Badger-illustration-2-767x1024.jpg 767w, http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Badger-illustration-2.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Words &#038; Photos by Pete, Badger drawing by Robert Gillmor <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crew:<\/strong> PTD, El Pres, Troll, TJ, Butty , Pete, Coley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pub:<\/strong> Dunc &#038; Kersh <\/p>\n<p>R<strong>oute :<\/strong> BL , New Buxton Rd , Tea Rooms, Half of Danebower, Full Chumby, Standing Stone, New BBQ site &#038; off piste route down , Rezzies, Sutton Hall <\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions :<\/strong> Beautiful clear day but cool right from the start of the ride  . 4.8c at Midnight <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lots of good factors were stacking up for a good ride\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful autumnal weather , but a pleasant cooling  <\/p>\n<p>A crew of (lucky) Seven riders , including Coley <\/p>\n<p>PTD took the helm for route sorting  &#8211; always a good sign .<\/p>\n<p>It was chilly by the time we got to the Cat. <\/p>\n<p>Half a Danebower, and then Paul led us carefully down Chumby from the top \u2026i can\u2019t really describe the exact route but it neatly avoids the chunky stuff above the waterfall.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/44740181804\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"IMG_1820\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1943\/44740181804_a48f90d0d7_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"IMG_1820\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Clough itself started dry, got decidedly wet further down and appeared to be fairly chunky on the rocks front. Or am I getting a bit nesh ? <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/43648284000\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"IMG_1824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1963\/43648284000_0fde59e364_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"263\" alt=\"IMG_1824\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The valley road was definitely cold\u2026cold air sinks. Up to standing stone where we could hear some bellowing stags behind us across the valley. Coley unfortunately had to leave us at this point. <\/p>\n<p>As we headed towards the new camp site there were lots of hindes\u2019 eyes glinting with our lights \u2026no stags visible though. And we surprised a hare as well.<\/p>\n<p>Off piste and a bit of a cheeky route through the woods next \u2026then down around the rezzies  and Sutton Hall it is\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bangers &#038; Mash gets many a vote, and washed down by pints of \u201cMonster Mash\u201d (\u2026it was a graveyard smash) .<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/44740180284\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"Spooky Moon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1967\/44740180284_84bf1e1ea7_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Spooky Moon\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dunc and Mr K arrive to herald the ribaldry zone<\/p>\n<p>Three culprits had a moderate AOE, Butty being still ob \u201cStoptober\u201d ..which is probably a good thing given what happened on the way home \u2026..I will now switch to TJ\u2019s account of the events \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBadger lying in wait on the ginnel from the canal towards rainbow bridge.  An area usually traveled through quickly and with some hazardous slippery wooden edging at the side of the path.  The badger obviously fancied Butty\u2019s bike (or Butty) but had underestimated the bulk of both.  It all happened quickly, the Badger took a broadside and Butty\u2019s wheel skidded to the side on the slippery wood, Butty down hard, bike on the ground and the Badger deciding he had better retreat, swiftly disappearing into the bushes, resembling mostly a large mobile humbug.   Luckily, Butty was only lightly bruised, damage being a broken light bracket which was replaced en route at TJ\u2019s (bike light emporium) in Poynton.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words &#038; Photos by Pete, Badger drawing by Robert Gillmor Crew: PTD, El Pres, Troll, TJ, Butty , Pete, Coley Pub: Dunc &#038; Kersh Route : BL , New Buxton Rd , Tea Rooms, Half of Danebower, Full Chumby, Standing Stone, New BBQ site &#038; off piste route down , Rezzies, Sutton Hall 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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tnr-2018"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","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=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}