{"id":4709,"date":"2022-04-14T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2022-04-14T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:22:59","slug":"tnr-07-04-22-beasting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4709","title":{"rendered":"TNR 07-04-22 Beasting It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Words by Pete, Pics by Butty and Pete<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/52004609584\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Dunc climbing Hardingland\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52004609584_c799a66c74_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" alt=\"Dunc climbing Hardingland\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crew<\/strong> : Dunc , Troll, Butty, El Pres , Pete\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the pub<\/strong>: Lee, El Pud\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Route<\/strong> : MC , Zig, Teggs Rear Entry, Bottoms Reservoir , Hardingland ascent , Forest Corner, Charity , Extension , Standing Stone, Board Walks descent, Back of the Rezzies, The King\u2019s Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conditions<\/strong> : The rain stopped right on cue, the low sunlight made our views magical , the air and the wind were cold .\u00a0About 5c at 6pm and it dropped to about 3c by midnight\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong>:\u00a0This week Dunc was our Ops leader . And he did a storming job . He cooked up a novel route and sorted out a table at a revamped King\u2019s Head.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novelty was also in adding in lots of climb , so that he (the fittest of us all) and the Butty (on e-vehicle) had the advantage . But the views and excellent low evening sunlight made even the pushing up hill bits a pleasure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the plateau bit of Teggs we encountered a strange dog walker who appeared to have abandoned all efforts to control the dogs in favour of filming us riding in footpath land. Such is life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/52004879860\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20220407-IMG_0051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52004879860_1f35e64244_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"20220407-IMG_0051.jpg\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>After the forest and tarmac climb from witches cottage Phil was feeling the effects of three days of dodgy guts . A \u201cnakd\u201d bar (that sounds a bit wrong ) seemed to restore him enough to get to the pub. Now I know why I carry 4 of them !&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the apex of charity we get a good sighting of a buzzard disappearing into the canopy of the forest , and the light was now dim enough to bring on the Owl hoots . after the tarmac climb from witches\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/52004358301\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Dunc &amp; Pete\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52004358301_e5541834cd_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Dunc &amp; Pete\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>On the climb to Charity we had also mistaken a bunch of E-chaps climbing the fire road beneath us for a bunch of girls. But were we truly incorrect ?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We made the King\u2019s head dead on 8:30pm, and moments later we had fine ale and nosh on the table in front of us. Another triumph from Dunc&nbsp; .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But five had become six \u2026as Lee had phoned in his order , had a little forest spin and joined us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The King\u2019s Head delivered warmth , a great beer selection (Timmy Taylor\u2019s Landlord&nbsp; &amp; Beavertown Neck Oil !), excellent food and service . Good scampi &amp; chips!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But wait on \u2026yet more surprises\u2026as the prodigal son himself , El Pud, strolls in .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was as&nbsp; though Dunc had secretly arranged this guest star to turn up the volume on the Ribaldry Zone .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This unholy concoction made for classic Thursday night 4-star banter .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whiskey was taken.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fine TNR indeed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words by Pete, Pics by Butty and Pete Crew : Dunc , Troll, Butty, El Pres , Pete\u00a0 In the pub: Lee, El Pud\u00a0 Route : MC , Zig, Teggs Rear Entry, Bottoms Reservoir , Hardingland ascent , Forest Corner, Charity , Extension , Standing Stone, Board Walks descent, Back of the Rezzies, The King\u2019s [&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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tnrs-2022"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","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=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}