Distance 15.5 miles
Ascent 800m
Weather dry but chill wind
Seen: skylarks, wheatear and pipets. Common sandpipers. Reed buntings, linnets, swifts, swallows and a kestrel. A large remote controlled plane being flown very closed to the M62. Big black cloud.
We walked to the Spar in Milnrow and then through a housing estate to the tunnel under the motorway as we've not been this way before - it's not as nice as going through the park to the little shop in Newhey so probably won't go that way again.
Up on the tops it was as cold and windy as it usually is, we crossed the motorway by the footbridge and turned right down to the Green Withins reservoir and around on to Blackwood Edge Road path. We dropped down through the farmland and down into Booth Dean Clough to cross below the reservoir. A short steep section up took us out of the woods and then under the M62 by Stott Hall Farm and on to the moors. We zigzagged down to Deanhead reservoir, stopping for lunch overlooking the water.
We followed the Kirklees Way (big K) around Scammonden and up on to the tops, along the Causeway and Crimea Lane almost direcly to the door of the Pennine Manor Hotel.
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