I normally go over Muggleswick from Edmundbuyers when doing Bolts. Has a long bit of the old railway in the middle but slightly less tedious than the road climb route above…… Oddly I was looking back at my rides from last December in Strava earlier, some good snow ones out over the moors, watch out for Ice…..one Bolts ride it was down to about 20m visibility when a snow storm hit so I re-routed off piste to short cut to the top in foot deep snow/heather. Good times 🙂
Now I remember the first time I tried the exact loop Ivan did above, also in snow, got to end of road section and too much snow to see the path to Bolts. Only had about 30 mins of daylight left so no way I was going to blindly follow the GPS having never ridden it before so I turned round and rolled back down the road way, that was quite annoying…