[Closed] SNOWMEGEDON FRIDAY, always be prepared for the worst

toxicsoks - Member

Dales_rider - Member
5 o'clock start and a quick run down th Aire valley
90 MPH was ok a few drifts about but not that much snow popped into Leeds for breakfast now pff up the wharfe valley for a coffee in Ilkley, cant get much above 80 lots of moving snow.
Not that much fallen in Yorkshire

You can't be serious! How, very, irresponsible.........

Nowlt much in front, so no problem a fast run back up from Leeds hitting a nice 90 again, even with some snow on the bends it cornered like it was on rails 🙂

Must be nice heavy snow then otherwise CDU would saying no!

Just been to tescosnowmegedon,lots of snow on the posher side of wirral, at least they pay higher council tax than us so deserve the extra snow.

and its snowing now again and sticking.

Nowlt much in front, so no problem a fast run back up from Leeds hitting a nice 90 again, even with some snow on the bends it cornered like it was on rails

Nowlt wrong with a bit of speed 🙂

Northwind - Member
maccruiskeen - Member
I thought this one was the Coup de Glacé

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wait wait wait! I've got another one

Fin de Iceiecle

I survived!, to be honest it was a waste of time "bikey" wise but good fun in a kind of "this is a ****ing stupid idea" mindset. I was out for almost two hours and covered less than two miles but still managed to arse all my whisky, so with my mathematical powers i deduce i averaged a blinding speed of 1 mile an hour - dunno if i'll be winning any Strava KOM's wi that time but i was certainly the only person out on a bike so i win 1st place anyway 😀

There's JCB's and Telehandlers wi buckets in the town clearing the roads and there doing a grand job, they've made an attempt at clearing one of the hill roads out of the town (see pic below) but they got bogged down in the larger snowdrifts so they gave up. I failed to make it to my mates farm to play on the motocross bikes, he says the snow drifts are up to his roof line on the farmhouse and they've been busy all day wi the tractors and telehandlers trying to clear paths to their farm and surrounding back roads/cottages but the snow drifts are level wi his cab on the back roads, they are quite high up in that area and it's still snowing/blowing a hoolie.

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VW Tiguan [s]4 motion[/s] no motion stuck in the ditch/deserted.

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The managed to clear the road as far as the turn off 100yards further up but after that it's waist high on me so i turned round.

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I gave up at this point as the snow is 3ft deep where the diggers got stuck trying to clear the snow.

* calling somafunk * those of us without the white stuff need to hear about your adventure, as well as checking that you survived obviously!

Edit: ha! good timing or what!

Went out on the road bike and came back with brain freeze from the snow 😆 Roads surprisingly clear. Absolutely sick of this countries weather though, it's ****ing awful this year so far.

yeah, it did a bit of a snow dump last night. Brilliant! was quite a good laugh messing about on Conwy Mountain in big old drifts. Diving and rolling in perfect crunchy snow really brings out he kid in you 😀

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Last time we had any significant snow in this area was back on 12 march 2006 according to my pics, must be a

mad march weather thing

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Just spent the last two hours shovelling snow from around my car and clearing two wheel tracks to the road end so i can hopefully get to work on monday as if this freezes (which it is (-2 outside now 🙁 ) it'll set rock solid. Cleared the paths next to my house and all the neighbours, they're all pretty elderly so i checked on them and got a shopping list which mainly involved cat food/dog food and bread/milk so that's me expecting a glut of home baking fae them soon, scones, cakes n' almond biscuits will be all mine 😀

I treated myself to a decent bottle of red and a bottle of Glenmorangie when i was shopping, that's me sorted for t'night in front of the fire.

Pretty heavy here. The road down to Frodsham from the house is totally blocked.

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Had a wee drive around once I dug the truck out of the snow. Very glad we did put winter tyres on the wife's car or she would not have got home last night even leaving work early.

Drifts halfway up my thigh in the garden and at least 10-12 cm on the roof of the car this morning.

Dales_rider - Member
Nowlt wrong with a bit of speed

Brilliant posts, somafunk, really entertaining. 😀 Whereabouts are you? (Yes, I know you're in That Scotchland, but which bit? 😀 ).

Dales_rider - Member
Nowlt wrong with a bit of speed

Those drugs will kill you in the end, you know?

Its the drugs that keep me going 😉

I'm in the south west, DG6 area to be precise which has had all the snow dumped on it for an amusing change, being on the coast wi the gulfstream it usually misses us out. Kirroughtree 7stanes is 21 miles that way <- , Dalbeattie 7stanes is 15 miles that way ->, Mabie 7stanes a further 12 miles that way->, Drumlanrig is 35 miles that way ^, the Galloway hills for natural riding are <^> all around 😀

And we get to live in the least populated area of the country, more folk work in one square mile of the city of London (316,000) than live in the 2481 square miles of Dumfries & Galloway (146,000) so there is obviously nothing to see up here, nor is there anything worth holidaying in this area for either, in fact you'd best bypass us altogether and strike us from your minds..........i hear the highlands are really nice - visit there instead 😀

Polite request for mcmoonter and somafunk to join forces and set up a retreat for stressed-out STW'ers.

I would love to be able to enjoy mcmoonter's garden, admire the snowdrops, perhaps pick up a paintbrush. somafunk could demonstrate his skills as a chocolatier and set up a tasting session.

What do you reckon chaps? 🙂

Somafunk, I remember 1994, we had about 3ft of snow and everything stopped. If you were in trouble you had to put an X in your garden for the helicopters to spot. The sledging was awesome though!

D and G sounds nice, but its full of Scots

yup as mentioned, **** off, we are horrible!!!

CD has pretty bad drifts in places too - 10ft drift at allanton roundabout and certain parts of the town are carnage!

We don't have a single flake.

Wow mental over the tops in Huddersfield. Cant people drive? Seriously. A car WILL drift/squirm etc so kill your speed. Sae lots of crashed & abandend but also ****ers driving at normal speeds still. Mental. Still had no problems finding parking anywear. Narrow winter tyres rock 8)

CG, I dunno If your ever up this way riding the stanes but if you are (and i'm working those days as i also work in a bike shop) shout up beforehand and i'll show you round our workplace, get you making your own selection of chocs wi whatever weird n' wonderful fillings you can come up wi.

The Beard : were you in this area back in 94?, we tried to cycle to Screel hill through the Nether Linkens hill pass route from Kirkcudbright to ride it but it took us 6 hours to cover less than half the distance so we very sensibly turned back, which took us another 6 hrs as the snow had covered our tracks - the stupidity of being a natural optimist has never left me 😀

Dales Rider : No it's not, it's mostly populated by extremely decent folk irrespective of nationality, apart from the very few exceptions i have encountered, one a very uptight "get off my land" type snob at Knockbrex Castle nr Carrick bay so needless to say i make a point of riding there whenever i can and a few snobs at Kippford, funnily enough i could make comment bout their nationality but i'll refrain as nationailty has got ****-all to do with manners and social mores in my book.

I'm very much a native. Lived most of my life a stones throw from Mabie forest. Was riding a MTB around it before anyone had heard of a trail centre. Only recently moved back and loving it!

somafunk - that's very kind, thank you. Scotland has been on my list for a long time so will bear it in mind. I remember your pics of chocs that you'd made, looked delicious! 😀

CG just give me a shout if you are in Fife.

Thank you very much mcmoonter. 😀

Most folk tend to want to leave this area in search of money or a so called lifestyle but to be honest i need to be surrounded by hills and desolate/empty spaces otherwise my brain overheats, spent time working in a mates very popular live music bar in Camden in the early 90s and whilst it was an experience i'll never forget there is no way i could ever live there or in any city or built up area. I'm a country bumpkin at heart 😀

I prob met you back in the day, we've/I've been riding round Mabie since the early 90's and a lot of the original trails and paths are still there if you have the time n' patience to hunt them out, to be honest if i ever ride there nowadays i very rarely only ride the surfaced trail routes, there's countless miles of natural stuff that is more rewarding.

Nowt wrong wi the surfaced trail stuff btw but sometimes it's good to revisit old haunts 😀

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I can't look at that without hearing Simon Foster (Tom Hollander - In The Loop) shouting [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226774/trivia?tab=qt&item=qt0962631 ]this scriptline from the film that i can't post on here due to the everpresent banhammer[/url]

Soma, looks like a really terrible place to live! I'll avoid it like the plague if I'm ever up that way... 😉

Most folk tend to want to leave this area in search of money or a so called lifestyle but to be honest i need to be surrounded by hills and desolate/empty spaces otherwise my brain overheats, spent time working in a mates very popular live music bar in Camden in the early 90s and whilst it was an experience i'll never forget there is no way i could ever live there or in any city or built up area. I'm a country bumpkin at heart

52k? - eek!.....our largest town in D&G is Dumfries whic has 43k and that even annoys me wi all the folk milling about although i can't remember the last time i ever visited the town centre?. Perhaps i've just got anti-social tendancies.

Yeah, this area is a really-really terrible place to live, personally i dunno exactly why i've managed to stick it out for so long?.

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I mean just how many sunsets do you need to see in your life?....seen one seen them all yadda...yadda

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And hills, n' burns n' 3 mile descents from 2700ft?, pah....boring! - give me a manicured trail centre.

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2500 square miles of nothing?....big deal.........

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Hills?, pah...they're mere speed bumps

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Call that a coastal path?, seen better at Blackpool pleasure beach.

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Aww god!, not another bloody sunset.....

Yep, living here is such a chore it's surprising i bother getting out of bed each morning. 😉

Visiting D&G for the first time in August and I have a suspicion it's going to go straight into my top 5 of places I'd like to live

last night, local, small, co-op....

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Chatting to the staff, they were saying folk were taking up to 6 loaves a time. Now, if you've a BIG family, shopping for less mobile neighbours or similar, fair enough. If not - get a grip, you selfish ****-wits...

somafunk.
I am somewhat envious of your locale!
Looks beautiful, you could never get bored of that.

I live two minutes away from countryside and all of it's associated filth, Fortunately the 'local development framework' is going to bring much needed jobs, skills, services and schools by building thousands of new houses on green belt. Yippee.

Might go for a sail 🙂

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Its the community spirit at times like this, or not!!!!!!!

Having helped clear the roads over the past two days here with a couple of neighbors, then there are those who just wait to drive out.

One guy was lucky to keep his wing mirror after Beeping at my wife 😈

yes to community spirit. just been out clearing the road with the neighbors. where we live there is 4 roads in and out, 3 are totally blocked with 200 yards of 3 foot drifts, the other one is on a hill so only 4x4 at the mo, gonna do my best to get it all cleared today

https://plus.google.com/photos/111032801268023395478/albums/5858858156264385793?authkey=CJ-X0t7ospaBnwE my locale

Not enough snow here in N London to worry about, it's the wet roads and -1 temp thats helping me off the road bike. I could go out, but don't fact a fall that'd keep me off the bike longer.

Pity as I've a sportive next weekend.

Hey check out somafunk's pics, gorgeous! 8)

Am afraid to say that today's ride was cut short. The wind was colder than yesterday's and I was on a different part of Salisbury Plain doing some more exploring on the ss again. Again, totally exposed.

A roadie stopped me to ask if I had a map he could look at and, me being me, had one so checked out his steed. Blow me, it was a Litespeed and an aluminium one, didn't know that existed. Very nice Winter bike and fair play to him he had already done about 50 miles with some way still to go. 😯

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^ scarily in WYorks my Mum hasnt been out in two days and only tins in. I left my car halfway up the road to ensure it was safe/could drive back out to bring her groceries. How many other 70yr olds+ are in a similar situation? This is why I'd never emigrate. Parents etc need our support.

Not too much snow near us, however enough to ditch the bikes in favour of a walk.
Quite a lot of fun in the large snow drifts trying to make snow angels and a hot chocolate at the local pub (with roaring fire) half way round.
Rosy cheeks and hot cups of tea at the end, guessing windchill -5 on the exposed hills.

This was a couple of years ago up in the Lammermuirs. What followed was a Shackletonesque hike of doom for three miles. The top surface was frozen with powder underneath. We hike a biked in each others footsteps, almost like drafting, it was so hardcore we got the bonk walking. Our shins were ripped to shreds by the ice, snow rides lost their appeal thereafter.

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