14-09-2021, 11:28 AM
The photo of the trial doesn't really give any impression of the gradient, until you look at the observer and the dry stone wall. It's not that rough, but the overhanging trees cover everything in moss and it's pretty slippery.
I used to use Bamford Clough during my time at the Driving School for Land/Range Rover off-road training, as an opener. It's a simple climb in a 4x4. We'd then take the green lane that runs up to the top of Stanage Edge, past the pole and then down to Redmires. That was in the days before the council banned the green laners, and before the bottom part of the route up from Redmires was completely chewed up.
We did have a problem once when someone in a Landy decided to take his mother up to the pole to spread his Dad's ashes. Unfortunately he ventured too far off the track and got stuck. A number of rescue vehicles also got stuck trying to recover the said Landy, and it wasn't until the Forestry Commission came to lend a hand with their Unimog that things were finally cleared.
Apparently there's a JCB up there that got swallowed by the peat, so goes the legend.
I used to use Bamford Clough during my time at the Driving School for Land/Range Rover off-road training, as an opener. It's a simple climb in a 4x4. We'd then take the green lane that runs up to the top of Stanage Edge, past the pole and then down to Redmires. That was in the days before the council banned the green laners, and before the bottom part of the route up from Redmires was completely chewed up.
We did have a problem once when someone in a Landy decided to take his mother up to the pole to spread his Dad's ashes. Unfortunately he ventured too far off the track and got stuck. A number of rescue vehicles also got stuck trying to recover the said Landy, and it wasn't until the Forestry Commission came to lend a hand with their Unimog that things were finally cleared.
Apparently there's a JCB up there that got swallowed by the peat, so goes the legend.