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To Rodwell End

To Rodwell End

Iain Metcalfe planned a mountain bike ride

April 24, 2020

To Rodwell End

Hard

05:01

49.9km

9.9km/h

1,110m

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Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 584 m for 235 m

After 3.45 km for 913 m

After 4.61 km for 314 m

After 5.71 km for 2.59 km

After 49.4 km for 391 m

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2.54 km

Packhorse Trail to Rake End

Highlight (Segment) • Historical Site

The climb from The Shepherd's Rest to the top of Rake End is challenging in all weathers, steep in places and very rewarding to get to the top of without …

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4.62 km

Flagged Track Across Boggy Moor

Highlight (Segment) • Natural

if you leave the path [50cm in places], your feet will get wet

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10.5 km

View of Stoodley Pike and Hebden Bridge Valley

Highlight • Viewpoint

The view from here is spectacular all the way to the bottom of the valley - even if you haven't got an extraordinary cloud inversion like this one to enjoy. …

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12.5 km

Beaumont Clough Bridge

Highlight • Trail

Beaumont Clough bridge presents something of a mystery - it's surprisingly high up the valley (and there's a fun bit of trail riding down to it) but the precise reason …

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18.0 km

New Delight Inn Camping Field

Highlight • Rest Area

Lovely little campsite next to a pub - £5 a night for cyclists or pennine way walkers, very ideal if visiting Hebden bridge or the surrounding area for a stop off!

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22.6 km

View of Lower Gorple Reservoir from Standing Stone Hill

Highlight • Viewpoint

That's a big climb done - you can relax a bit now and enjoy the views before the descent!

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23.2 km

Lower Gorple Reservoir Descent

Highlight (Segment) • Lake

Open, spectacular, and - if you've the nerve for it, very fast and drifty. It's definitely better as a descent than a climb - more because of what's to come …

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24.6 km

Track to Gorple Lower Reservoir

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Grass up the middle and lots of sheep

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30.5 km

Pennine Bridleway Climb Near M.T. Long and M.T. Trough

Highlight • Cycleway

Starts off with a fairly testing climb with switchbacks then goes into a downhill section eventually.

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30.6 km

Pennine Bridleway South of Colne

Highlight (Segment) • Viewpoint

Incredible gravel riding along here, with twisting turning singletrack and loose gravel climbs, a real treat!

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34.9 km

Gorple Road Moorland Descent to Cant Clough Reservoir

Highlight (Segment) • Natural

Moorland singletrack leading down to Cant Clough reservoir. Best done in the dry to keep the singletrack single!

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43.7 km

Mount Cross (Idol Cross)

Highlight • Natural Monument

Very close to the junction of Mount Lane and Delf Lane.

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49.9 km

Rodwell End Descent

Highlight (Segment) • MTB Park

A lovely, fast, flowing section of trail is interrupted by a track and a farm or two, and then suddenly steepens into something which requires quite a lot more concentration. …

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

25.8 km

10.3 km

10.2 km

2.19 km

1.28 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

20.8 km

9.14 km

7.72 km

4.48 km

3.93 km

3.69 km

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Highest point (390 m)

Lowest point (110 m)

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To Rodwell End

Packhorse Trail to Rake End

Flagged Track Across Boggy Moor

View of Stoodley Pike and Hebden Bridge Valley

Beaumont Clough Bridge

New Delight Inn Camping Field

View of Lower Gorple Reservoir from Standing Stone Hill

Lower Gorple Reservoir Descent

Track to Gorple Lower Reservoir

Pennine Bridleway Climb Near M.T. Long and M.T. Trough

Pennine Bridleway South of Colne

Gorple Road Moorland Descent to Cant Clough Reservoir

Mount Cross (Idol Cross)

Rodwell End Descent

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