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First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:07 pm
by Muzorewa
Any excuse to venture up into them there hills, the roads from Oldham to Ripponden over Saddleworth moor were pretty risky, in fact at Denshaw the A640 was blocked and traffic was directed by Mountain Rescue. :shock:

So onwards to Oxenhope Moor, the top of which is at the boundary of Calderdale and Bradford councils so neither appeared to be bothered to grit it or clear the snow. Consequently with a stiff westerly wind whipping drifts across the road it was, erm, awkward, and not made any easier by people giving up and trying to reverse all the way back down :evil:

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Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:11 pm
by g8dhe
Ohhh, looks fun! I'll stick with the 6℃ and sunshine we have at the moment down here!

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:30 pm
by Bob
Good old Bongy. =D>

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:48 pm
by Northern Bongolow
I hope your self isolating your spam on return to this side of the border muz.🤭

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:56 pm
by Muzorewa
Northern Bongolow wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:48 pm I hope your self isolating your spam on return to this side of the border muz.🤭
You might recognise that parking spot Ady, it's where I needed a heap of coolant and bleed if you recall!

If you look on the OS map, that spot also goes by the unfortunate name of Cock Hill. When the Tour de France came through town, they decided Côte d’ Oxenhope Moor sounded rather better :lol:

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:35 pm
by Bob
Not sure the French would understand Spam Corner. :wink:

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:40 pm
by Northern Bongolow
Cycling injuries would be minimized if they put spam crash bale's on the mountain corner descents.
It was a tad mad at 4.30 this morning with a loaded fuel artic, I wasn't quite up there, but nearby, around 100 artic's stuck near Rochdale coss one of them lost the plot.!!.
Bongo bleeding memories, aarrgghhhh.👍

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:07 pm
by Muzorewa
On the other hand, I could have just waited until today.... :?

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Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:54 am
by Northern Bongolow
Never thought I would hear those thoughts muttered near the most travelled bongo in history, hope it didn't hear you cos of the snow in it's mirrors.

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:38 am
by Muzorewa
But Bongy knows we still love him even after all these years!

Re: First “white stuff” of the season!

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 6:30 pm
by Jillygumbo
Good to hear from you all again!