IXXRA......The Home Of The Superblackbird

Another set of pics sorted in my Photobucket account so may as well post a few during these dark days.

This is of a ride very early Sunday morning...so secret and hush hush that I didn't even tell myself about it until I got up. Lovely mid-Summer's morning , with no route planned..just a bimble "local" like..

Usual "local" route which took me over Snake Pass. left at Glossop towards Chapel en le Frith where I stopped off at a canal basin that had always caught my eye.







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Lot of industrial architectural remains there and lovely to smell the early morning barge coal fires and the fekkin bacon and eggs they were cookin without inviting me !

Onwards to Dove Holes then cut back over the peaks to Castleton. stopping off up at the Blue John Caverns overlooking the Hope Valley. This is the original road before it was permanently closed due to the continual landslips of Mam Tor.







Winnat's pass



Back road up to Stanage



Hope Valley and Mam Tor way behind me in the distance



..and Stanage Edge ahead



Back home for late breakfast

Very nice, gives you hope, dunnit.

Winnats pass is a lot steeper than it looks in the fotie ... Aint that the place where the para-gliders take off from propper nuts them cooonts

Very nice, gives you hope, dunnit.

sighhh

Oldbull wrote:Winnats pass is a lot steeper than it looks in the fotie ... Aint that the place where the para-gliders take off from propper nuts them cooonts

Very nice, gives you hope, dunnit.

sighhh

Not as steep as 'Fabio Falls'.....