Jam 1

How hot? 27 degrees in England has surely got to prove global warming…

After a steady start the trails were finally watered and swept to get them back into something rideable. A steady stream of the locals started arriving, jonny robin, josh and later on Dan. Followed by are Shetland (shitland) island friend Ieuan!

Riding to music once in a while is a godsend....

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Everyone gets psyched listening to tunes while ridin, especially when there being blasted out from an amp. Of are neighbor nick is reading this I apologise, but to be honest you cut are tree down so pooschnaff to u!

Lately I’d just finished my ‘dads’ line’ which consisted of a step down to tabletop to kicker, or if you wanted you could transfer it to the far line landing which we found out later…

Jonny started a session off on the tabletop which must have lasted for 4 hours straight. Jonnys no footers got from mad to just a bit silly really. You can see in the pics that there not the most stylish things to do but man there impressive in real life. I think if you look close on one of the pics he’s doing a superman by accident which he somehow landed?! You never know what that boys thinking half the time, must be something to do with the water in Hathersage…



More and more lines were being discovered as the day progressed, the best probably being the hipped transfer from the middle to the far flow line. Josh started up a session on the oldest line near the wallride, which ended up in some sketchy take offs and landings. Me being one of the sufferers. Where a helmet kids you never know it might just save you…..



Minor foods stop aka pasta and water courtesy of the ‘mother’. Ieuan are shitland friend was all very new to this trails malarkey so he was a bit conservative at the beginning of the day but towards the end he was easily sailing over the tabletop and the new line. All this must be a tad new to him seeing as he lives literally in the middle of nowhere. Who’s heard of Walsay????





For the first time I witnessed the jumps starting to crack. Usually one douse of water from a watering can would do the job but for some reason the soil was eating the moisture like a fad kid in a candy shop. I even saw the lip of a jump completely fall off!


As the day wound down our childish and immature selves decided to gaffer tape josh to a tree…. Why you ask?? Who knows but I tell you now he got one hell of a wedgie when he was hanging out of that tree.



One jam down. How many more to go?