ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, it isn't a B-road, but it IS a lot nicer than the valley road! You can take the longer/easier way up via Pecket Well, or the shorter/much more challenging way which is to go straight up Birchcliffe Rd.I'll be interested to know what your forthcoming trip to check out the Luddendean Dean bridleway determines as that way looks good for the reasons you state of not dropping down to Booth. Prior to that, I intend to come up from Hebden and along the B road past the golf club as that looks more scenic than the valley.
Ah! It effectively IS a road. I don't know what its legal status is but motor vehicles do drive along it. It used to be horrendously rough - huge potholes, gravel, broken glass and so on. I used to do it on my MTB back then but avoided it on my road bike. Some time later the surface was improved. It was never great, but good enough that one didn't fear that the bike would be destroyed by riding over there! My theory is that the council did what they had to do but didn't want to make it good enough for it to become a 'rat run' for drivers trying to avoid Hebden Bridge! I haven't ridden it for a few years so I should check that again too.I think we're talking about different things on the other bit; I hope so anyway! I was asking about the thing to the east of the Warley Moor *Reservoir*. Here. The Streetview data is from 2010 and it's not marked as a road on the OS map. It's on your route so I assume it's fine?
I am going for a birthday walk with a friend tomorrow. The forecast for Sunday is looking okay so I'll try to get up there then because I am going to Devon on Monday and don't want to leave my recce until I get back.
Yes, that is strange. And feisty!Pretty strange that I, literally this morning, thought I'd plan an imperial century to take in some of the high ground to the NE of Hebden that I've not covered before. It comes in at a rather feisty 3,500m in 161km at the moment. I can knock off an easy 400m ascent and 22km at the end if necessary though!