shauncollier said:
do you know church lane in hebden bridge? i've been up it only a few times and it's much steeper, or so it seems, than the other roads marked with a double chevron. maybe colinj will know better as he lives there.
Oh yes! It starts in Church Lane but a lot of people refer to the higher part as 'Mytholm Steeps'. The steepest part is 1:4 or 25% for about 100 metres. The first part of the climb from the church to the top of the 25% section rises about 125 m in 700 m so it
averages about 18%. It slackens off above that to 10% for about another 650 m; that actually feels easy after what has gone before!
I've posted this link many times before but here it is again - a
Slideshow showing the climb from Church Lane to Mytholm Steeps and on towards Blackshaw Head.
NB I loaded the photos in the wrong order - click the Pause button (bottom left), scroll to the last picture in the slideshow, click on it, click Options (top right) and check the Play Backwards box, then click the Play button (bottom left).