Early Coope's Dozen

See Ed's report above for full description of our early Coope's Dozen. My garmin clocked 19.27 miles with 4600ft of ascent. Using the direct route from Noon Hill to the Pike saves about half a mile and 200ft of climb. The route we took off Round Loaf is not the most direct of the three options but provides the clearest route and decent running underfoot for running.

The four of us at the start in the top barn car park

The first stop after less than 100 metres as the peacock greeted us

Ed and SN descending to Hordern Stoops

noticing the sign that now twins the locality with the North Pole

and the artistic poster to alert of us bikers trying to do the ton along the road?

crossing the beck on the new footbridge to take the right bank of the ravine down to White Coppice

where it was a lovely day for Cricket at what is probably the most picturesque ground in the country ... as I said to Ed at the time, so good you would think you were in Yorkshire!