Plenty of places still available on both these meets. Please contact the meet coordinators to book in ASAP. Full details below:
High Moss Cycling – Ben Llewellyn
Cycling meet based at High Moss. I will be doing a reasonable-length road ride on
the Saturday, taking in several of the hills in the area. Join me for this or feel free to
come along and do your own thing, on road or off, by bike or on foot. I will provide an
evening meal on the Saturday so please let me know by the Tuesday if you will be
coming along. Contact details as per handbook.
Bell’s Wells Revisited (in memory of Geoff Bell) Jo Wallis
Start at Shepley Street in Old Glossop at 8 a.m. for the long route or at midday for the short route.
The long route will be led by Richard Bradbury and will be taken at a decent pace, aiming to cover most of the wells that were visited on the original walk in 1999. However, the original walk, led by my dad, Geoff Bell, was ‘quite a big day out’; a committing 42 miles and 14 hours ‘around Bleaklow and Kinder and back again’. It started and finished in darkness and some were too tired to eat the Meat and Potato Pie that my mum, Mary, had cooked. Richard has adapted the long route for this occasion to be around 25 miles, which he estimates it will take around 10 hours from an 8 a.m. start. Since Dad was also a member of Dark Peak, we have extended the invitation to their Club.
An alternative shorter route will also be on offer, which I will lead. My route will skirt Bleaklow and then Kinder, starting from Shepley Street at midday. The aim is that we all arrive back at Bank Street around 6 p.m. where my mum will reprise her Meat & Potato pie (or similar).
Please contact me for more details and to bagsy yourself some pie (please let me
know by Wednesday 11th to book in for pie). There may be a ‘just pie’ option: please ask.
This revisited walk was conceived on our street, when Rucksackers gathered to pay their last respects to my dad. There was no wake. No cheese, no wine. We all simply went home.
Hopefully, Covid will allow us to Get Out There and enjoy some fond memories.
Thanks – Jo. Contact details as per handbook.