 See the news article, but bottom line today, Good Friday, is that if you're planning to walk on Bleaklow or downwind of it this weekend, you'd best go elsewhere.
It really is a mess. Looks like a volcano and Glossop is under a cloud of eye-smarting smoke with residents advised to keep their windows shut.
You can smell the fire for miles around too. Anyway, I'm not working today, but since none of the nationals seem to have picked up on how serious the Bleaklow fire is, I thought I'd best get it up.
Food now...
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 Any one got a veggi-sausage for the big Barbi round at Jon's gaff then...
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 I had a great day out on the Carnedds today - even so, there was a moorland fire burning all day on a hill above the Menai Straits, sending black smoke all over Anglesey.
It's odd that there have been so many new fires since the media reports on the first fires in Lancashire and I wonder whether those reports have encouraged the local arsonists to set off with a box of Swan Vestas? You can't blame addicted fell-walkers for all of them.
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Yeah, there are suggestions that some have been started deliberately by kids. Top of Bleaklow's a long way to go mind, though it seems to have started somewhere near the Pennine Way / A57 junction where day tripper park then wander around in jeans and tee-shirts carrying flame throwers...
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 the west pennines were in the news this week when even more ground was ablaze with over one hundred firemen at the scene in Belmont and White coppice.
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Maybe it's sparks from the feet of all those fell runners?
Then again maybe it's just daft sods who haven't got a clue.
Everywhere is tinder dry atm. I'm sure you'd have noticed that the heather on the sides of the Carneddau was dry Marcus. (where did ya go btw...?)
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It's unbelievably dry! We had a great round from Bethesda, up via the Beras to Llewellyn, a diversion to Yr Elen and back, then over Dafydd andback down to Bethesda. I've done this round before, but in thick fog most of the way. It's a proper "walker's walk". Presently at home in Cheshire, enjoying a couple of pints of Charlie Wells's Bombadier mmmm. Both terriers are sound asleep after their exertions!
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I was up on Yr Elen on mothers day the moors on the approach were tinder dry even then, the grassy outliers like Drosgl & Gyrn Wigau were also parched it's been years since I can remember the ground around the Carneddau being so dry so early on in the year.
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Still burning today, but most of the vegetation seems to have burned off so much less smoke. Problem is that the peat catches and smoulders underground.
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Is it true that peat can burn underground and carry the fire to other areas which are unaffected "on top"?
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 yeah i think so alex. even if u bury, say, a fag end, it can set the ground alight and burn for days over a massive area without it being visible on the surface.
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 It's all the local fauna I feel most sorry for, even the insects have a right to a safe habitat.
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Insects have rights? Do the Country Landowners' Association know about this? Can they use bridlepaths any time they like or do they have to be riding a moped? Is there a moth curfew? So many questions!
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LOL
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 The fire that started on Barrow on Wednesday night was still trying to re-ignite this morning. Ironically its the footpath erosion that has helped prevent the fire going through Coledale and into Winlatter Forest, oh and the six fire crews, two MR teams, NP and NT staff and a host of volunteers.
Is this the first time some of us are praying for rain on Easter weekend?
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