Warnings and disclaimer
If you are planning on visiting the site, the usual warnings about having the right kit and plenty of Kendal mint cake apply; map and compass and the ability to use them, waterproofs, good boots and so on. Low cloud makes for an atmospheric visit but it also increases the chances of getting lost. On Bleaklow that’s at best an inconvenient and frustrating experience and at worst a call out for Mountain Rescue. At the risk of sounding paternalistic, I’d advise those dressed for the pub and using a GPS app on their phone against it. It is nearly always wet and boggy. One of the biggest risks is in walking along the paved sections when they are iced up. The details below are accurate as of January 2016 but do not constitute professional guidance, so of course you use them at your own risk.
I find the mint cake suggestion made here, kind of weird.
Been a walk this morning, up on the moors where I've never been before, purposely to visit this site - which is pretty tricky to find, but I pre-loaded my Garmin GPS with the co-ordinates. The B29 was called "The OverExposed", and crashed in November 1948 - even sadder the top of the hill is only 20-30 feet over the rise to the left, so it was a close thing. There's a fair bit of wreckage there, and some of it is still shiny, I was amazed to find the engines were 18 cylinder! - you can see them in the background.
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We did Jerome Aizona two years ago and it was fascinating!
http://azjerome.com/jerome
Well worth playing a good long day or several visit for anyone who ends up in that area someday!
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I live about 40mi from Jerome, and drive through it several times a year, or fly over it on the way to Cottonwood, AZ, where I buy most of my aircraft fuel.
In the winter around christmas time my family flies down to the south west US region to travel around for abut two weeks and we make a point to visit the old largely long forgotten ghost towns and such places, so seeing this fits right up my ally.
We did Jerome Aizona two years ago and it was fascinating!
http://azjerome.com/jerome
Well worth playing a good long day or several visit for anyone who ends up in that area someday!
Also, last year we went to Rhyolite Nevada for a bit.
http://www.google.com/search?q=rhyo...hrome.1.0l6.1540j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
There's not much left of Rhyolite Nv but some buildings and a few abandoned shaft mines you can look around in but it was still interesting.
The old buildings are neat but the damn nanny state protectionists have boarded up and fenced off pretty much everything of greatest interest to where the place is too locked down to be as interesting as it used to be.
Still its a place a person could burn up half a day or more hiking around if they wanted.
There is nothing more sobering that standing in the Libyan dessert at a war graves cemetery and seeing the crosses seemingly go on to the horizon.
If you were were interred there aged about 30, you among the old men.
Max.
Last year, while in the Netherlands, we visited the Canadian War Cemetery,
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