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hi, im trying to get a route together for the weekend and i want to ride up to winter hill, problem is that i want to ride the long downhill to belmont and cant see how i can get back to rivi without using the road. can anyone help or do i just need to climb back up the way i came down and go down the steep decent to Belmont road?
thanks
You don't have to go on the road. Well.... for a bit. If you carry on past the Black Dog, where you would have turned left, there's another pub further up (can't remember the name, sorry). Behind it, there's a footpath that takes you over the moor, then you cross the road and head up to the pigeon tower.
Obviously you'll have to push your bike as i'd never live with myself if I'd condoned riding on footpaths 😉
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and can you get up to winter hill via the path up the side of the dog kennels or is it better to just go down to the service road?
you either turn round, or go up to belmont on the road. From belmont there's a footpath that runs parallel to the road, can be boggy in places but it's an old cart track up to a quarry
don't go up the side of the dog kennels, but there's another path a bit further alng that cuts off the corner up to the service road
Binners is it the Belmont bull? go uo the side there and over the moors?
[url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=366571&y=416175&z=115&sv=366571,416175&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=640&ax=366571&ay=416175&lm=0 ]hoar stones[/url], not a great climb tho, personally I'd go back up and do one of the other cracking desents off winter hill, the climb isn't that hard or technical, just long.
i like doing the techy climb back up the belmont run as you can then do the decent from the two boys down the dog kennels link it with the gardens or the ice cream run. or up the belmont then link with the steep shute at the other side of the mast which again leads on to the ice cream run.
another option is park up at white coppice cricket club do the pike then the belmont, a couple of miles of road then onto the moors and head up to darwen tower back through tockholes woods (sp?) and over the moors to great hill with a sweet decent all the way back to white coppice cricket club.
The kennels is a push in a lot of parts, but ok in others. I hadn't realised there was another path. It forks at one point, one way over to join the road, the other up to Two Lads, and then you can join the road on the other side. The quarry out of Belmont (I usually take the road passed the school, along the back of the playing fields and along the footpath there) is very boggy, even at this time of year. To be honest, the road isn't that bad, apart from the motorbikes that go a bit too quick sometimes.