Well, future venues can be discussed, but since I thought of it first, I get to choose the venue this time 😀 . Whether anybody comes on the day I suggest to the venue I suggest is another matter, of course!
For the venue, I'm sticking close to home using terrain I know. I'm going to suggest we meet at the Roman Lakes complex, where we started the STW Marple ride last year. There's plenty of parking, loos, and they do hot food. Sorted.
The ride would be a shorter version of this ride
http://www.mapmyride.com/route/gb/marple/289125588704262002
We'd cut across from mile 5 to mile 18 along the grey track. I'll do a proper route map later with all clever things to show where me night stop for photo sessions
As for dates – It's quite soon I know but how does Sunday 28th feb sit with people? We'd have to aim for a pretty early start, get to the car park for 9am kind of thing, then we can be away shortly afterwards.
Would suggest bringing plenty of layers as it's winter and there may be long periods of inactivity, and some sandwiches as there won't be many places en route to get food.
Sound alright? More after tea 🙂