"Tyresome" - 2nd March 2006      

Crew : Phil "old lights" Ball, Graham "Three times unlucky" Kershaw, 

Andy, Coley, Pete, Alex "the Chris Palmer substitute"

Route: Barracks lane - Old Buxton Rd - Back Eddisbury Gate Lane - Bridleway up to Windy Way House
Teggs Nose std entry - Off piste descent to Langley - Rd to Leathers Smithy and Trentabank Rangers Centre 
Up through forest to Standing Stone - Rd to Forest chapel - Up Charity lane to half way point - Descent through forest on "steps route"
Hardingland gulley - Round Langley reservoir - Sutton Hall  

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•  Curse of the Kershaw - 3 attempts to fix a puncture before he got a result 

• "Proxy Palmer" - Andy brings along newbie "Alex" to make up for Chris's absence   

• Excellent snow in Macc Forest .....but  icy corners on the side roads caught Pud and Coley out 

• Bonding with the grey generation (and we don't mean Mawdsley's appearance) in the Sutton Hall !

• Pitchfork and Bass

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0c on the way out .....-4.8c on the way back...brrr...is an understatement  

And at 7am the next morning it was - 7.4c 

Puncture Repair Attempt Number one 

Attempt two ! 

 Still on attempt two !  

After a slippy moment on the Eddisbury Gate Rd Coley decides to hang on to a tree on Tegg's Nose descent  

This is during puncture repair attempt 3 .....Andy begins to feel like we are in some weird version of "Groundhog Day" and decides its time to call International Rescue. Spot the "Decoy Palmer" in the left of the picture