Brown knoll

Is it legal to turn off right just before jacobs ladder and meet up with rushup edge?

? From which direction

Not on a bike legally, so long as its mostly dry edale cross (top bit above jacobs) to south head makes for a decent shortcut if you must cut it out

Erm….as you come from Jacobs ladder side you turn left.

Nope, and it would be awful to ride anyway. 2 miles of carrying the bike through a peat bog.

My route has now changed so cheers anyway