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26th January 2013 - Cribden Hill

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No route map and description. I set off from home and made my way up to The Halo and the top of Cribden Hill, the hill which I live at the foot of.

The snow was about a foot deep generally and in places knee deep especially up on Cribden Hill. Cold and windy but the snow was already starting to soften and thaw. The following morning most of it had gone and there were just patches left.

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I step out my front door and see just how much snow has fallen overnight
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Just a short distance up the road and there's a path that heads up the hillside opposite my home
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My first view of a snow covered Rossendale valley
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This is the A56 bypass through the valley and the cars on the far side have been parked up and abandoned. I hope their owners didn't have far to go.
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Looking up the valley towards Rawtenstall
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This track will bring me out on Haslingden Old Road. I'm heading for the TV mast on the hillside ahead.
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Deep drifts
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Haslingden and the West Pennine Moors
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On another track covered in deep snow. I'll soon turn right and then go past the Halo and the TV mast.
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Cribden Hill just ahead on the left
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On Cribden Hill. The track I was following can be seen below. Holcombe Moor and Bull Hill on the other side of the valley are shrouded in low cloud.
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Rawtenstall in the valley below
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On the summit of Cribden Hill looking across to the West Pennine Moors
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The villages of Dunnockshaw and Goodshaw on the other side of the hill straddle the road from Rawtenstall over to Burnley
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The high ground continues north to finish with the hills of Great Hameldon and Hameldon Hill
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A walk downhill through deep snow has brought me to a path into a wood
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A little further to go and then I'll turn left to head back. That's Haslingden Moor in the background.
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On the track that will take me to the Halo
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The view from the Halo. Scout Moor covered in cloud.
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Looking down the valley
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Haslingden and the West Pennine Moors
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Haslingden Moor
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The Halo. One of the panopticons of East Lancashire.
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One of the "Shoe Trail" plaques. The trail starts from Rawtenstall and finishes at the Halo and was created to celebrate Rossendale's links with the footwear industry.
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Back down the hill and I'll soon be home
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A bit of road walking to finish

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