Hi all.
I need to make my way home to Halifax from Honley on Thursday morning and could do the train (boring) or cross bike (boring) but was wondering if anyone had any pointers on a route/good trails to do between Honley and Scammonden/Outlane? From there I can make my own way home.
Anything thats a must-do? Going to be starting on the A616 just north of Honley so wondered about heading towards South Crosland, Blackmoorfoot/Netherton and then down into Linthwaite/Slaithwaite and up and out to Scammonden/Outlane kind of area?
Cheers
Dave
I'd go through the woods to Meltham, then up the valley and Magdalen Road to Wessenden Head, down the valley to Marsden, then up some silly steep roads to Scammonden. A bit longer and the woods would be sloppy but worth it for Wessenden I think.
Cheers, I'll take a look at a map and try and plot that out.
OK, think thats pretty easy to follow actually.
Anything particular to do in Meltham Woods (or just look at Strava?) and is the descent down from Wessenden Head easy to follow? Looks to be a BW - easy enough to just follow that or are there "other options" 😉
honley woods, meltham, up chain road to meltham grange, round deer hill res, then follow water catchment all the way round to wessenden, then fp up past swellands res, follow it to road, left then right over standedge. right on buckstones road and follow to scammonden.
sweary northerners route. 8)
That might contain the sufficient amount of interesting stuff I want then Tony 😉
Wessie Head is easy to follow - steps at the bottom are fun
And I'll copy that route too - cheers Ton
Actually, having reviewed ton's route, I think it might be one for better weather than conditions around here at the minute? Loads of moorland stuff - is that going to be a total bog fest at the minute?
Tons route is good, but considering the weather of the past week it's currently a bog fest and a lot of it's unrideable.
This time of the year either road or train.
Have you seen the forecast for Thurs?
One of my strava rides, from Marsden to scammonden
https://www.strava.com/activities/722353193/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1474653323
I'll find some others and post them for you, as I live in Marsden
While the Wessenden descent will be okay, as Chew says the path to swellands is really, really wet at the moment, not ideal IMO.
The pw over standedge could be okay though.
swellands reservoir.. :0)
i did the last dry day of last year around october time, was perfect. The week after it was a bog fest and took me twiceaslong for half the distance.
theirs a steep uphill (green lane, cop hill, burnt platts lane) down the canal from mardens. Route in the west yorkshire vertebrates guide. should be rideable. that'll get you upto scammonden..
if you want a longer ride, honley, newmill, cheesgate nab, hade edge, cartworth, yateholme, digley and onto wessenden, now that would be a fun one. just plotted it 41km and 1300 metres of climbing. :0)
Thanks for the input all.
Ended up taking the cross bike and just roadie'd it all the way home. Apart from the road into Huddersfield where I witnessed more shocking driving in 10 minutes than the previous 10 months and the real drag out from the centre to Outlane (where it decided to rain pretty heavily, stopping as I reached the M62), it was quite a pleasant ride. Descent from Outlane through Stainland and Holywell Green to West Vale was great - don't think I turned a pedal until I stopped at West Vale lights 😀