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I go down a big hill on the way to work and it got me thinking...

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Just off Junction 29 of the M1, the Chesterfield turn off, a big hill which I clocked in the car today as being 0.7 miles long (dunno about the vertical though) This area gets a fair bit of snow in the winter, i've got an old pair of blades so I thought about digging them out and having a go. Has anyone else out there ever had a bash at English road ski-ing?
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I had a little go on blades in the Peak District last winter, lots of fun but not exactly 3V, and no lifts!
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back in the 70s and 80s when we had 15ft drifts down here , used to hitch the sledge up behind tractor on road .grat fun untill you go head on into a snow drift snowHead
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When we were kids we used to hide behind a roadside at a T junction and grab hold of the back of a milk float. If it was really icy the float wouldnt move. Ay they were the times.
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I've done it on a sledge before and made a pair of ski-ish devices from plastic roadsigns but being on the flatlands meant a car was needed to get some speed up. The original sledge was made as per Blue Peter plans (circa mid 80s) but the runners ground down about 4" on a bit of snowless road one night. the mk2 version was made longer to fit 2 people but predictably wasn't as steerable, the mk3 widebody version sadly arrived as the snow vanished and I think is still in use as a pallet at my parents' house.
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In the big snow of 1982 (you know, when Kraftwerk were No.1 in the charts) I remember the main road through the village was closed for 2 days, and I remember a guy skiing down Llan hill ! - which would be a blue run about 0.75 miles long. Most people in the village (myself included) at never seen a real pair of skis before Sad
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I skied down the hill in front of my house (the villiage green). It is about 30 degrees and drops 8 meters. Lift facilities are ... legs. Mountain (hill) top resturant is ok. Hotel just like home really.
Slope is south facing but gets a bit of pisteing by kids on plastic bags !
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
Back in December 95 we had a good dump here and towed the body board behind our quad. Great fun.
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Went out mountain biking the day after boxing day around Macclesfield Forest - there's one hill in Wildboarclough that's got a decent gradient to it, not huge at 400 yards or so, but has a road next to it. Packed full of sledgers and half a dozen skiiers. Even some boarders knocking around

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It's shame no-one off here bought the old ski tow that was advertised on ebay a couple of months ago. that would have been great Shock)
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up4it, funny, on my way home yesterday, went past a steepish hill on the A34 near where I live, called Beacon Hill and was thinking what fun it would be to ski down (but rubbish to have to walk up as I don't have any chums with tractors!) as a bit of a stopgap until the real thing. May have been something to do with the fact that I booked our trip for Christmas about 30 mins before snowHead snowHead
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