Bleaklow Stones
Last chance to let me know you are keen to join the outing on Saturday 2nd traversing the Bleaklow Stones from Snake Summit to Ladybower. If keen to go get in touch before Friday pm Peter Edgerton
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Author: Peter Edgerton
Those Bleaklow Stones…
Bleaklow Stones, Saturday 2nd August. The sound of the Curlew and plaintive cry of the Golden Plover will reach us on the gentle, warm breeze which will accompany our 20-mile journey over the fine wilderness that is Bleaklow on Saturday 2nd August. The weather has been booked well ahead – I am not going to say what sort of weather however! The aim is to tick off the eponymous Stones across the moor from Snake Summit to The Ladybower Inn and then to rehydrate before getting a lift back to the start and our homeward transport. If you fancy it then please let me, Peter Edgerton, know by email to rowanho@dircon.co.uk by Thursday 31st July so transport can be arranged.
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Saddleworth 5 Trigs
If you are short of something to do and want to escape the crowds this Bank Holiday weekend, don’t forget the iconic 5 Trigs meet which leaves Greenfield for a 19 mile romp over the moors at 9am on Saturday 27th. Let me know if the pull of the wilderness proves impossible to resist!
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Saddleworth 5 Trigs, 27th August
Here it is, the meet that reaches parts others do not! Once again I will, try to navigate the wastes of Upper Saddleworth to complete the 19-mile circuit of the 5 Trigs and find yet another route up Shiny Brook Clough from the Wessenden valley. The route is Greenfield – Alphin trig – Chew reservoir – Featherbed Moss trig – Laddow – Black Hill trig – Meltham road – West Nab trig – Shiny Brook Clough – Cotton Famine Road – Broadstone Hill trig – Pots and Pans – Greenfield. Perhaps this time it will be perfect and a new record will be set. It would be great to have your company so please get in touch if you want to come along – I will leave Greenfield at 9am that morning from a car parked behind the Robert Scott factory on Friezeland Lane where there is plenty of room at the weekend for more. Come along and catch the sighing breeze in the last of the heather and the cry of the grouse, along with big skies and grand views!!
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