Winter hill, Darwin moor, Holcombe moor

Set of at 11 ish over to Bolton to meet Amy so she could take me on her cheeky trails over to winter hill, it was snowing hard and sticking so i put alot of warm clothes on. The snow wasnt to deep and it wasnt to hard to make progress, soon enough we had got through smithills and riding on the moors to the top.

There was ice under the snow, and a walker warn us at the top of the decent about it so the fast bit turned out to be a slow mince down, but i did stop to take a picture or 2 on the way.

At the bottom i left Amy as she was heading off to a friends. I headed up the road and over Darwin moor. The climb up is hard and i had to walk a bit of it as my wheels couldnt get traction. Once at the top though it was back to easy riding.

Onto the weavers way all the way to the strawberry duck, then did the big climb up through crowthorn and round the holcombe horseshoe took the left onto the climb onto the moors to pilgrims cross, putting power down on the climb my bike did something weird and made a noise from the rear end. turns out ive snapped the hubshell in half, the spokes did a good job of holding it together and i made a smooth and gently escape of the moors back to my house. Cut the ride short abit because of this i was hoping to add in scout moor as well.