Go BIG or go home…
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That’s part of the plan. £2k buys a lot of taxi rides.
The ones that stay still are freaky
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The one with the doors open, turning the corner did my head in 
That is fab !
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Frank @f1eng got a few mentions in the commentary, something about designing a few F1 cars
or summat…apologies for awful phone pics.
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Can’t work out the others but Pic 3 is a Williams FW07 followed by a McLaren MP4/1.
There was a Hesketh in there too, I’d forgotten to charge my proper DSLR, so just took some random phone pics of most things…the F1 cars were great to watch, as were the minis, lotus cortinas & mustang’s, having a right ding dong of a battle 
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Any astra estates?
I know they had to enlarge the aero foil for most race tracks for safety reasons
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Didn’t the F1 lads get up a petition saying that they wouldn’t come if the competition was going to be unfair ?
VB
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Yesterday was a walk from the Snake Inn up to Kinder north edge, along east to the track down to Alport Bridge, across the A57 then the old Roman road back to the car
Through the brash from forest felling, across Fairbrook on stepping stones then up the obvious track:
Looking east, the road suffers from landslips and the instability of the slope is evident:
The track becomes a path before heading up to the right hand cluster of rocks on the skyline:
Blackden Clough, another route up from the valley that I’ve not yet walked or scrambled:
All was going well until my right leg disappeared into the peat to thigh depth. Left knee bent more than it likes to, resulting in some soft tissue damage which made onward progress slow and a bit painful:
Win Hill (L) and Lose Hill ®. Patchwork is from heather burning:
Down the old packhorse track (R of centre), across the A57 and back via the old Roman road:
shortly after the old sign I could head down to the Snake Inn (closed) and my car:
which I was glad to see. What should have been a 5 hour walk took 8 1/2 hours, the latter 2/3rds at half pace. Pain now diminishing and swelling should be gone in a few days. It was a lovely day to be out, despite the injury.
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Great report, glad there was nothing broken!
So was I!
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Was that the knee you had fixed?
No, that one went straight down into the hole, thank goodness. Probably get the duff one done next year, if Covid clears off.
Take care Dave. I’ve more than once ended up doing several weeks’ less walking because one day I was caught out trying to do more than the landscape and/or my joints were capable of. I’ve just come off the phone to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hosp who are going to try another tweak to my orthotics (mostly because they’re almost worn out, so I need to see the ortho people anyway, and they’ve changed management in-and-sort-of-out-of the NHS enough times that they can never find records of my last visit 
).
VB
Thanks. Yes, I do in general. These holes are a bit of a nuisance up there. This one was at the edge of a decent bit of path, so unexpected. I was using poles, which probably helped a bit on the drop, and were essential after it. I thought about hitching back to the car, but after getting down from Kinder the return path wasn’t too bad.
You were lucky, fol#3 was under instruction on her police response driving course on the snake pass last week at high speed 
she scared herself. Glad you didn’t come across her.
Indeed! Mind you, when I was younger and before the speed limit was put on it, we would often drive it at night on the way back from the Lakes or Wales. Oncoming headlights gave warning of traffic, and one could have an interesting drive.
Edit - I should also say that, since those times, I know 2 people who have rolled cars off of it (both of them steady drivers) and one who was killed by an idiot coming the other way. It’s a road that needs respect.
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