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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It would be nice to see you again if you can make it. I'll put you down as a maybe.
Oh, the views from the platform on the Pike are fantastic on a clear day! I intend to take enough photos to make a panoramic 360 degree view. The picture below taken from above Heptonstall quarry shows how prominent the Pike is, so you can imagine what you can see from up there.
Here are three of my Stoodley Pike tales:
- I once observed a perfect temperature inversion from the balcony viewing area of Stoodley Pike near Todmorden. When I stood upright, my eyes were 2 inches above an immaculate flat cloud surface. All I could see was a perfect blue sunny sky above and thick misty cloud below. When I bent my knees, I couldn't even see the ground below me!
- Watch out for the sheep!!! I was fumbling my way up the staircase without a torch once when I heard a funny rumbly clattering noise coming from above. Next thing, a flock of bloody sheep came charging down the stairs at me! I nearly got swept off my feet. When I got to the balcony, there was sheep s*** everywhere. They'd probably gone up there to shelter the previous evening and must have been too scared to come back down the stairs in the dark.
- I was at the entrance to the Pike's stone staircase and heard a commotion from inside. Eventually a woman came down and turned round, calling back up the steps into the darkness. Her husband was stuck halfway down with a very large, frightened dog which refused to budge. I went up with my torch and lit the way down for the cowardly canine!
