Dark Peak Fell Runners is an athletics club for (mostly) hill & mountain running. The club is based in Sheffield and although the majority of the 300+ membership is local, the famous brown vest has migrated as far New Zealand. The club caters for a wide range of running interests and abilities, from short local races to ultra distance events, with some individuals achieving success in the English and British championships. The club thrives on minimal organisation and if you have a slightly anarchic sense of humour and an appetite to compete in unusual events, you will feel at home with people of a similar disposition.
Fell running has a culture for individuals to take personal responsibility for safety when out on the hills, as terrain and weather conditions can be severe. Therefore it is expected that you assess your own physical ability, mountain craft skills, clothing and equipment before going for a run.
On the approach to the change to summertime, we six Serious Warts (the fair-weather Warts were strangely absent) chose the Hagg hostel lay-by (unpleasantly littered) for our starting point. Any celebration of the arrival of Read more
Early announcement to save the date! To mark 50 glorious years of Dark Peak, we’re going to have a special function with dinner and ceilidh. This will be on Saturday 7th November at the Kelham Read more
Old men tend to tell tales of their youth, and the Serious Warts are no exception. For those who had been prepared to listen to us (not many, admittedly), we had recounted a recent experience Read more
After last week’s gentle downhill start, we reverted to the brutal normality of an uphill one from Birchen Clough from the cars up to anticipated feels like temperatures of minus 4⁰C in the strongish wind. Read more
Our recent past outings have been veering on the wild side, with snow and ice at a feels like temperature of about minus 12⁰C, on Kinder edge and semi remoteness at the three sheeper sheep Read more
Having arrived at the sheepfold, formerly known as the three-sheeper (because, surprisingly, it was thought to hold three of them), we started the now routine discussion of just how many it actually could contain. Certainly, Read more
It’s mid-February, so what would you expect but winter weather which we six Serious (Slow) Warts certainly did have, on our foray into a feels-like minus 12⁰C. Our start from the Snake Bridge, was just Read more
We were never more than about a mile from the car park on our latest moderately epic outing from Odin’s Mine. So, it was short, a total of three miles, which took about an hour Read more
The final map for the Tipsy Sportsman (Wednesday 11th Feb) has been released, see post under calendar entry. https://dpfr.org.uk/wp_dpfr/dpfr_events/857333 Drinking is very much optional. It’s a good fun 100 minute score event and should be Read more
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