Distance 17.5 miles
Ascent 885m
Weather: rain, drizzle, sunshine, drizzle
Things we were accompanied by: cows, horses, starlings
We had a cosy breakfast in front of the fire at he Red Lion before heading out into the rain. We walked down the hill to the shop for supplies then through some housing estates and up on to the moors. A group of cows was sheltering from the weather behind a tumble down wall, but we were far more interesting so they came with us for a bit.
It was wet and claggy up on the moors, we followed the Pennine Bridleway for a while, big puddles between the rows of raised slabs. We went over Rooley Moor and Brandwood Moor, through Rawtenstall to Lumb and on to the Dunnock Shaw nature reserve at Red Moss. Here we left the bridgeway to walk through the nature reserve and the sun came out.
We crossed Deerplay Moor and Todmorden Moor, both covered in sheep and little lambs, before coming down the pleasant path at Eagle's Crag to the Staff of Life Inn.
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