17th November : Puddingless Forest Fest & Fireside Fun 

Crew : Chris Palmer, Pete Austin, Graham Kershaw, Luc Mollan, Phil Ball,Andy Wootton, Dave Cole, Graham Dougan, Eric Dewhurst 

Route : Black Road - Old Buxton Road - Track parallel to OBR- Windyway House - Walker Barn - Charity Lane (ice on descent) - Forest chapel extra bit - Standing
stone - Down through forest to chicken wire run - then back up to Rd to f-chapel - crossing it soon -  back into forest through to by Leathers Smithy - across damn end of reservoir up to foot of Nessit - skirt forest edge - up to above ranger centre - then though illegal bit to rd - then down to Langley (like opening the freezer door !) - Sutton Hall - Home.

Weather: Icy, cold but dry  : -2 but a beautiful full Moon 

items of interest :

What no pudding .....placebo of a core crew member

Wootton now a regular

Good to meet up with the Doog & Coley mid ride  

Eric was out on blinged up bike, all new wheels & hope brakes.

...just a pity that the rear one fell off mid ride !

A Kersh route with minimum walking ?