Yorkshire dales trip 30th Dec

[Terranosaurus]

Whilst many of you were down in Derbyshire on the beginners day I was a little further north in the dales with a few lads from GLASS.

Mt 2 of em at Wetherby before heading across to Pateley Bridge to meet the fourth member of our group for the day. Then a quick refuel (theres LPG in Pateley which is handy for me) and off we went up the valley past Lofthouse and Howe Stean Gorge to Scar House reservoir.

Those that came up to the dales for the weekend trip earlier in the year will know know many of the lanes we did as much of the route was the reverse of what we did on the saturday, only with a lot more water about and some snow in places. Dead Mans hill was a lot more difficult up than it was down (I came down it sideways last time if you remember) but I got up it ok, needed MTs though, ATs wouldn't have been enough.

Then over a few moor tops before the various fords between Marsett and Stalling bush, nothing to worry about but good fun all the same. Then along cam high road (Roman Road) which is plain sailing before heading for Littondale for another couple of lanes. Along here my LPG tank fell off.

All of a sudden there was a scraping sound and I pulled up quickly (was at the back) thinking the exhaust had dropped off, only to find the LPG tank on the floor held on by its pipes and wires and leaking gas. Anyway after a few hours I eventually made it back home courtesy of a very, very nice man (well one of his contractors) and a big truck.


I'll stick some photos up later, I didn't take my camera but other will send me em.

 

[Deleted Member S]

Hi HB :smile: sounds as if you've had a great day out & you found some snow 8O 8O 8O I'm sorry to hear about your gas tank, is it repairable or are you going to have to get a new one :?:

 

[Terranosaurus]

Tank itself is ok, but the connector/level sensor/filler arrangement is knackered - it should have shut off automatically but I had to wait for all the gas to escape before moving and its done one of the fuel lines too - thats where it was leaking from otherwise I'd ahve just strapped the tank back in place and continued on. The securing straps just went with age etc - they were pretty rusty. Can lift tank up 60mm now for more clearance courtesy of body lift.

 

[Deleted Member S]

Will you be able to get the replacement parts you need ok ? I surpose it gives you a reason to spend some more time on your truck to rehome the tank & to make up the protection plates you wanted for your fuel lines :roll:

 

[Terranosaurus]

Ben looking at it seems like it's not too big a problem, can just get the bits for the tank - about £50. going to look into new lines/pipes was wondering it there is anything else I can use instead of coper pipe, theres regulations to follow I believe.

 

[Deleted Member]

Those that came up to the dales for the weekend trip earlier in the year will know know many of the lanes we did as much of the route was the reverse of what we did on the saturday, only with a lot more water about and some snow in places. Dead Mans hill was a lot more difficult up than it was down (I came down it sideways last time if you remember) but I got up it ok, needed MTs though, ATs wouldn't have been enough.

Scar reservoir would have been an eye opener going down it,i remember you saying you wanted to do it the other way when we were there!! Hope you are going to be running more in the dales this year,as i hope to get well dirty this year...thinking of taking my side steps and mud flaps off,so all i need to do is take my swan neck off then were off!!! :lol:

 

[Deleted Member S]

Scar reservoir would have been an eye opener going down it,i remember you saying you wanted to do it the other way when we were there!! Hope you are going to be running more in the dales this year,as i hope to get well dirty this year...thinking of taking my side steps and mud flaps off,so all i need to do is take my swan neck off then were off!!! :lol:

I think i'll be just ploughing the fields :lol: :lol: & as for my side steps they just fall off & HB kicks them back on :lol: :lol: :lol: By the wat HB the end cap on my step is still there after you gave it a boot last time :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[andrewk]

Dead Mans hill was a lot more difficult up than it was down (I came down it sideways last time if you remember) but I got up it ok, needed MTs though, ATs wouldn't have been enough.

We were up there on Friday with some friends from Manchester GLASS. The Patrol did fine on road tyres - but we did it from the Arkleside end. The only difficult bit is the rutted section coming down towards the reservoir dam. I really wouldn't have liked to attempt that up hill without at least ATs.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Terranosaurus]

Photos are HERE


Which bit did you use on Deadman's Andrew, I was out with the Dales GLASS rep and apparently the bit pictured with me coming up it is the legal route not the 'gully' slightly further from the reservoir.

 

[andrewk]

Which bit did you use on Deadman's Andrew, I was out with the Dales GLASS rep and apparently the bit pictured with me coming up it is the legal route not the 'gully' slightly further from the reservoir.

It's the first time I've driven the whole of the route. In April 2004, I was with the GLASS group that took a BBC film crew up the lane from Arkleside - for the Countryfile programme that included an article on "offroading" in the Dales. If you were interested in laning then, you might have seen it (and my green Trooper) - and that Bartholomew clown (YDGLA) that they included "for balance". I see someone's filled in the big hole that there used to be just inside the national park boundary - or at least, I didn't notice it. :smile:

I remember going down somthing that looked exactly like this on Friday ......
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/sptbentley/Dales30_12_07/photo#5150136746896189458 I've imported a track from the Garmin GPS I had running into Memory Map and it seems to follow the line of the ORPA shown on OS 50K mapping data very closely. I was with Paul Bannerman (GLASS Manchester Rep) and Nigel Bennet from Manchester GLASS (and others) who've both driven it many times - so I think we were probably on the right line.

We did the long (mostly boring) track across to Grewelthorpe Moor afterwards, then split up (some had to go home). Paul, Nigel and I then drove up to the North Yorks moors and did Rudland Rigg. Quite a lot of Rudland Rigg was still on my Patrol yesterday when I went out on the "beginners" day. If you haven't done it before, it's 9 miles long and most of that could be driven in a Nissan Micra. It would, though, have trouble with the rocky descent at the northern end. It was a bit easier than I remember from the last time I drove it - in 2005, I think, in the Trooper I had at the time. It's definitely worth the drive, the views are tremendous (when it's not pouring down). There are several lanes in the area and you could definitely find enough to make a day of it. If you use Memory Map, I have a route overlay of the TOR (Total Offroad) roadbook for North Yorks (circa 2005) which was built around Rudland Rigg. Let me know if you want a copy and I'll mail it to you.

Where is the "ford" (or was it just a rather wet lane) that's in those pics?

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Terranosaurus]

Wasn't accusing you of going offline just wondered cos last time I was there I wasn't sure and guessed but as it happened got it right, if you stayed left at the top and then turned right at the bottom before turning left to head for the really obvious track you were right the "other" route straight lines the corner down an obviously sees plenty of action, needs some big roacks placing top and bottom to keep people on the track really.

Not done much on the North York moors except on road rallies and those are the tamer ones - though some aren't so tame at least not in a 205GTi or similar, so any MM overlays would be appreciated, I'll PM you my email address.

The ford is one of 3 in quick succession and is fairly obvious on HERE come up the byway from the B6160 between Kettlewell and West Burton, keep left at SH537, in GS9185, just before SH397 fork left onto ORPA (on linked map) which leads to Stalling bush, quite rocky but easy enough then turn left and follow ORPA to Marsett via 3 fords. I quite fancy doing those when there is more water about as its fairly obvious that a lot of the track also floods but its a proper made stone road so could stand it, wouldn't be a mud plugging exercise - I don't go in for that on lanes.