First “white stuff” of the season!

[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.

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

[g8dhe]

Ohhh, looks fun! I'll stick with the 6℃ and sunshine we have at the moment down here!

[Bob]

Good old Bongy.

[Northern Bongolow]

I hope your self isolating your spam on return to this side of the border muz.

[Muzorewa]

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

[Bob]

Not sure the French would understand Spam Corner.

[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.

[Muzorewa]

On the other hand, I could have just waited until today....

[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.

[Muzorewa]

But Bongy knows we still love him even after all these years!

[Jillygumbo]

Good to hear from you all again!