Broad Stand, the crag on the right of the picture is still a notorious spot for walkers who think it looks a straightforward scramble, getting stuck and having to be rescued. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s account of descending it is good: “…began to suspect that I ought not to go on, but then unfortunately tho’ I could with ease drop down a smooth Rock 7 feet (2.1 m) high, I could not climb it, so go on I must and on I went. The next 3 drops were not half a Foot, at least not a foot more than my own height, but every Drop increased the Palsy of my Limbs — I shook all over, Heaven knows without the least influence of Fear, and now I had only two more to drop down, to return was impossible — but of these two the first was tremendous, it was twice my own height, and the Ledge at the bottom was so exceedingly narrow, that if I dropt down upon it I must of necessity have fallen backwards and of course killed myself. My Limbs were all in a tremble — I lay upon my Back to rest myself, and was beginning according to my Custom to laugh at myself for a Madman, when the sight of the Crags above me on each side, and the impetuous Clouds just over them, posting so luridly and so rapidly northward, overawed me. I lay in a state of almost prophetic Trance and Delight — and blessed God aloud, for the powers of Reason and the Will, which remaining no Danger can overpower us!”
12 October 2016
this leaden paul
I was dragged there once, during what (in my family) passed for a ‘summer holiday.
It rained.
13 October 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
60049, as-was.
15 October 2016
Pirx the purist
Name of a Stockholm-based (but mostly English) electric folk band in the early/mid 70s.
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Broad Stand, the crag on the right of the picture is still a notorious spot for walkers who think it looks a straightforward scramble, getting stuck and having to be rescued. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s account of descending it is good: “…began to suspect that I ought not to go on, but then unfortunately tho’ I could with ease drop down a smooth Rock 7 feet (2.1 m) high, I could not climb it, so go on I must and on I went. The next 3 drops were not half a Foot, at least not a foot more than my own height, but every Drop increased the Palsy of my Limbs — I shook all over, Heaven knows without the least influence of Fear, and now I had only two more to drop down, to return was impossible — but of these two the first was tremendous, it was twice my own height, and the Ledge at the bottom was so exceedingly narrow, that if I dropt down upon it I must of necessity have fallen backwards and of course killed myself. My Limbs were all in a tremble — I lay upon my Back to rest myself, and was beginning according to my Custom to laugh at myself for a Madman, when the sight of the Crags above me on each side, and the impetuous Clouds just over them, posting so luridly and so rapidly northward, overawed me. I lay in a state of almost prophetic Trance and Delight — and blessed God aloud, for the powers of Reason and the Will, which remaining no Danger can overpower us!”
12 October 2016
this leaden paul
I was dragged there once, during what (in my family) passed for a ‘summer holiday.
It rained.
13 October 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
60049, as-was.
15 October 2016
Pirx the purist
Name of a Stockholm-based (but mostly English) electric folk band in the early/mid 70s.
24 November 2020