Date: Wednesday 29th September 2010
Route: Lake Lane, Iron mine lane, old railway to dam, sheepstor,
handrail below sheepstor, Nosworthy bridge, leathertor bridge,
keiths bridge, rescue car park, railway, shortcut, princetown,
south hessary, nuns cross, ditsworthy house warren, sams lane
(sadly now no longer a danger to Sam), earthquake, Meavy, HQ.
Riders: Keith, Paddy, Stephen, Julian and Martyn.
Depart: 19:35
Arrive HQ: 22:10
Distance: 21½ miles - exactly!!
Weather: Dry, warm, clear skies gently clouding over with a bit
of mist up top.
Ugg!!! – A
Routemeister classic!!!
Off “he” went at
the usual frantic pace..…and
we all followed…..and that’s the way it stayed. Routemeister,
as usual putting us youngsters all to shame and giving us a right
beasting in the process. Poor Julian who has been cooped up in
his attic with his text books and not seen the light of day for
2 months. Any sympathy from Routemeister…not a bit of it!!!
Incidents - Keith claimed 5 “off’s”. I only
saw one but it was a goody as we climbed up the track to Leather
Tor Bridge Keith went for it through a big puddle only to have
taken the wrong route through and for his steed to have a refusal,
front wheel to do an immediate 90 degree turn and chuck him on
his shoulder in the mud. Straight back on though…good man!!!
Martyn
decided upon the “half man” route and departed
at Routrundle crossroads (not a bad decision as it turned out) – but
not been sighted since? Was he got by the Walkhampton Yetti on
his way home???
A cracking run on a dryish
route and 2½ pints
of Jail very well earned. David and Mrs David were at HQ to
meet us only
to stick the knife in by telling us they were about to go and
pick up their curry. Oh, how four men drooled!!! Perhaps there
could be an HQ3?????
Reporter: Paddy
President's Footnotes: This was
only a Catergory 'C' Beasting on
the Routemeister's scale, yet as his proposed route arrived at
inboxes we lost 50% of the expected riders and then
en route we lost another
20%! And yes, I did suffer five offs, all relatively minor into
grass, mud and/or water! Except one where my light didn't shine
on one lump of granite which had far more stopping power than
my disc brakes!
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