hill of death

[rickleach]

after slogging up the hill of death this year I am having trouble explaining to my wife who hasn't been exactly how steep it is.I would be therefore very very grateful if anyone had a photo they could post that could give some indication as to why it is so named!

Many thanks!

[stinkywitch]

This doesnt really do it justice, I will have another look through my pics and try to find a better one. This pic was took in 2009. sorry it is so big but I don't know how to make them smaller.

[rickleach]

many thanks for this stinky -I don't think that any photo would do it justice but it is a good indication!

[akicif]

I've no pictures of it, but in an eight hour shift stewarding there on the wednesday morning in 2008, we saw more than twenty carts, wagons, trolleys or barrows of various degrees of home-madeness or excess-loading come apart as they failed to navigate the ruts and gullies, and the wreckage left behind included about sixty assorted beer/cider cans (many of which fell hard enough to actually burst).

Sadly we weren't allowed to rescue the intact cans, but had to settle for pointing them out to people (bonus points to the guy who set off at a run for the gate when we tried to call him back for his cider: goodness knows what he thought we were up to).

[nha]

caravan was on the hill of death this year, the nightmare of negotiating it and the burning thigh muscles. The camber of the caravan kinda made you feel drunk as you stumbled from one wall to another as you tended to ricochet around inside. Then the toilet door swung open due to gravity. then there was the excitement of setting off! will it tip over? will it make it? It did but the last bit of excitement wasn't needed.

[jimincardiff]

it wasn't as bad as I thought - but I imagine if it was wet and muddy it could be a killer!