BTW I’m surprised people are saying Chew Res to Alphin is rideable.
I’m not rubbish on ridges: I can clear a lot of Ridgelines in the north west; Stannage edge, frogatt edge, Blackstone edge, Stoodley ridge, Standedge.
This however was on another level – maybe even harder than trying to ride across Kinder Scout!
I was riding with someone who rides Trials! He did a bit better than me but we both constantly on and off the bike, unable to make any pace at all.
Half of it was probably due to the bog but even then there were enough rocky sections which were like “no chance” – particularly bike-unfriendly undulating rocks and at least two ridiculous uphill sections, one in particularly was memorable as I couldn’t even push up it, I had to walk up with the bike on my back!
Then there were a few other sections where I thought I might have been able to ride it if the penalty wasn’t death!! Big cliff drop to the right hand side.