Squeezed between clinic appointments, this is another short two-day route centred around the Warland group of reservoirs: Blackstone, White Holme, Light Hazzles and Warland.
The outward line from Smithy Bridge station follows the southern shore of Hollingworth Lake and ascends to join the Pennine Bridleway (PBW) around the flanks of Stormer Hill, leaving it to climb via a new approach up the slopes of Cowberry Hill to Blackstone Reservoir and the Pennine Way (PW) track around the reservoirs.
The return line continues the PW as far as Stoodley Pike and follows the Dick’s Lane route to cross Erringden Moor for the final descent to Mytholmroyd station.
This route was designed to use the same excellent Stony Edge camp as on our Warland and Ramsden trip to this area last year, a most unlikely pitch spot amid the large gritstone boulders and rough heather. Once again we carried all our water from the start.