Rooley moor to Winter hill

Classic ride, woke up late and set off at 12, headed over to rochdale via bridleways and lanes.Felt really good climbing up to rooley moor and over to cragg quarry, had a quick stop as it looked like they were doing more work on the trails up there and then carried on down to edenfield

heading down to edenfield

2 small horses

Rode down to irwell vale and did the big climb up to holcombe moor via robin hoods well cut over the moor on the old road past ellen strange memorial and over to pilgrims cross

old road over holcombe moor

pilgrims cross

Over the moor and down to the horseshoe loop past the firing range and dropping down into crowthorn

on the horshoe path under holcombe

Past the strawberry duck, onto the witton weaver way over the a666 and start the climb up onto Darwin moor

heading up to darwin moor

Darwin moor

Down from darwin moor on the muddest decent ever and back on the weavers way  towards Belmont, diggers had been on the bridleway making deep mud everywhere

weavers way to belmont

winter hill getting closer

Quick nip onto country lanes to belmont and the the long haul up to the mast on winter hill, saw another mtber coming down, its very cut up and boggy at the moment. From the top the views back to holcombe and scout moor were ace, and i could see blackpool tower looking out to the coast.

at the top

looking back to the start

looking over to blackpool

Back from the mast to smithills and then to bolton were it was rush hour so rode off road tracks to nob end and then back to Radcliffe on the canal. Just under 50 miles with over 4000 feet of climbing in total. top ride.

Nob end

old canal locks at nob end

GPS map