24th December 2010 - Great Hameldon and Cribden Hill
Walk Details
Distance walked: 11.8 miles
Total ascent: 1794 ft
OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors
Time taken: 6 hrs
Route description: Home-Pike Law-Height End-Cribden Hill-Cribden Side-Rossendale Way-Burnley Way-Great Hameldon-Burnley Way-Rossendale Way-Cribden Side-Cribden Hill-Top o'Slate-The Halo-Home
A walk from home across the moors above Haslingden to Great Hameldon and Cribden Hill. The roads were so bad with the snow that if was going to go anywhere I would have to start from home. I've never done this walk before and it turned out to be better than I thought it would be. Definitely an option if I'm snowed in again.
Total ascent: 1794 ft
OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors
Time taken: 6 hrs
Route description: Home-Pike Law-Height End-Cribden Hill-Cribden Side-Rossendale Way-Burnley Way-Great Hameldon-Burnley Way-Rossendale Way-Cribden Side-Cribden Hill-Top o'Slate-The Halo-Home
A walk from home across the moors above Haslingden to Great Hameldon and Cribden Hill. The roads were so bad with the snow that if was going to go anywhere I would have to start from home. I've never done this walk before and it turned out to be better than I thought it would be. Definitely an option if I'm snowed in again.
Route map
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Rawtenstall in the valley below from Pike Law
Haslingden and the West Pennine Moors....
On the summit of Cribden Hill
Rawtenstall below
South Pennines moors
Looking down the valley. Peel Tower on Holcombe Moor can be seen in the distance.
The West Pennine Moors above Haslingden
West Pennine Moors
South Pennines..
On Great Hameldon above Accrington with the fells of the Forest of Bowland in the distance
Pendle Hill to the north
Winter Hill in the distance
TV masts on Hameldon Hill
South Pennines..
The Forest of Bowland from Great Hameldon
and the West Pennine Moors
Heading back to Haslingden.......
I'm back up on Cribden Hill as the sun starts to set
South Pennines..
Moors to the north with the bump of Pendle Hill in the distance..
The Rossendale Valley
South Pennines..
The sun sets over the West Pennine Moors...
Looking down the Rossendale Valley. Peel Tower can be seen on Holcombe Moor.
Rawtenstall in the valley below
The West Pennine Moors from Cribden Hill..
The Halo
and views from beside it across a snow covered landscape as the light fades.....
