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Nenthead weekend 26 Jun 2016 22:19 #16890
- Jonesy
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Nenthead Trip - I travelled up from Harrogate on the Saturday to join other YSS members for the Middlecleugh through trip. Nenthead is a wild and remote part of northern England but stunning particularly at this time of year with its wild flowers - purple mountain pansies everywhere - and its curlews, snipe and oyster catchers filling the air with their calls overhead. The mine and its extensive workings is superb, full of industrial and social history. They were a tough bunch these miners and so were their families and the farmers and other residents of this area. Living up there on the roof of England they had to be.
My drive up there was along the B6277 from Middleton in Teesdale up over the moor tops towards Garrigill before taking the minor road over to Nenthead. The views were extensive and the morning sun lit up the dales. So beautiful. There is alot for the walker, the cyclist and the kayaker to get their teeth into in the area.
We actually heard one of the local farmers while we waited on site for our mine guides, he could be heard quite clearly across the hillside calling fondly to his faithful dog who was gathering in the sheep - something along the lines of "I say there Shep, please come here and follow my instructions and round up those two stray sheep you have just missed in that corner you lovely cuddly sweet dog" or words similar to that - I shall leave that to your imagination !
And of course Nenthead Mine which was just brilliant. Had a great day, enjoyed traipsing around the passages and going through the squeezes, crawls and down the shafts. Cannot believe the state of my caving kit, I washed alot of it off in the beck on site, but waited till i got home to soak my suits in buckets in the garden. I tipped buckets of irony orange water which resembled bistro gravy on to my flower beds - that'll improve them no end. And for those ladies who like a deep tan on their legs for summer - don't spend money on expensive fake lotions - just take yourselves up to Nenthead and walk through the wet passages with just shorts and flipflops on........ my legs (and toe nails) are stained deep orange.
A first for me - I had to scrub my legs with a nailbrush in the bath to get it all off....
Thank you Paul for arranging this. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Both Nenthead and Alderley Edge were very interesting and whilst both mines, both were very different. Cheers - Carol
My drive up there was along the B6277 from Middleton in Teesdale up over the moor tops towards Garrigill before taking the minor road over to Nenthead. The views were extensive and the morning sun lit up the dales. So beautiful. There is alot for the walker, the cyclist and the kayaker to get their teeth into in the area.
We actually heard one of the local farmers while we waited on site for our mine guides, he could be heard quite clearly across the hillside calling fondly to his faithful dog who was gathering in the sheep - something along the lines of "I say there Shep, please come here and follow my instructions and round up those two stray sheep you have just missed in that corner you lovely cuddly sweet dog" or words similar to that - I shall leave that to your imagination !
And of course Nenthead Mine which was just brilliant. Had a great day, enjoyed traipsing around the passages and going through the squeezes, crawls and down the shafts. Cannot believe the state of my caving kit, I washed alot of it off in the beck on site, but waited till i got home to soak my suits in buckets in the garden. I tipped buckets of irony orange water which resembled bistro gravy on to my flower beds - that'll improve them no end. And for those ladies who like a deep tan on their legs for summer - don't spend money on expensive fake lotions - just take yourselves up to Nenthead and walk through the wet passages with just shorts and flipflops on........ my legs (and toe nails) are stained deep orange.
A first for me - I had to scrub my legs with a nailbrush in the bath to get it all off....
Thank you Paul for arranging this. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Both Nenthead and Alderley Edge were very interesting and whilst both mines, both were very different. Cheers - Carol
