Wadsworth Trog

[mapper]

I think I might have eaten my maltloaf by then AR, so watch out for the brown teeth instead ! (oh, and I won't be wearing a kilt!)

[Bob the Dog]

Mapper - forecast for the weekend looks not too bad. I was up in the Pentlands the previous wkend and I was surprised how dry it was for the time of year. However there has been a tad of precipitation since then. Look out for the good looking person in the Keswick vest and then look for an ugly looking one and that's me !!

[mapper]

I'll be in the mess tent within about 60 minutes of the start scoffing the biscuits and drinking tea. See you there.

[goose fat]

I decided to recce this yesterday and have a few questions about the route.

I was fine with everything on the west side of the A6033 (wadsworth moor) but I was wondering wether I got the lines right on the other, east, side (Oxenhope Moor, Midgley Moor).

The problem areas were:-

1) CP2 to CP3 I just followed faint trods up Bare Clough (NW) to Catchwater Drain and followed a bearing to CP3.....no paths, very rough going.

2)CP3 to CP4. Do people run along the road from CP3 or head down Halfpenny Hole Clough and what line do they take back up from CP10 to CP11?

3) CP11 to CP12 just followed a bearing from the bend in the road at 011324 to high Brown Knoll. I was hoping to pick up Black Gate path (shown on the 1:25000 map) but must have crossed it without spotting it. Again very rough and slow going.

4) Got very confused from CP13 to CP14.....are there any flags on the day for this section?

[crowhill]

1) CP2 to CP3 I just followed faint trods up Bare Clough (NW) to Catchwater Drain and followed a bearing to CP3.....no paths, very rough going.

Yes, that's just how it is - there's a path cutting up through bracken in the steep climb from the reservoir. If you waded through the smelly knee deep mud alongside the wall it's straight in front of you. As you said, once you get past the steep climb there's a few faint trods taking you as far as the catchwater drain, Once you cross that drain, however, then you're "up to your buttocks in tussocks" - just head for the fence corner. If there is a path through that lot, then its the best kept secret in Yorkshire!

2)CP3 to CP4. Do people run along the road from CP3 or head down Halfpenny Hole Clough and what line do they take back up from CP10 to CP11?

It's straight across the road from the stile at Cock Hill - and through the gate (that says "no dogs") into Halfpenny Hole Clough. You go down the track for half a mile or so and come off it on your left to cross a narrow stream in the valley. From there, its fairly obvious as way marker posts take you down to the barn. You come back from CP10 to CP11 by running on the road to the barn, before turning up and returning the opposite way you came from CP3 to CP4.

3) CP11 to CP12 just followed a bearing from the bend in the road at 011324 to high Brown Knoll. I was hoping to pick up Black Gate path (shown on the 1:25000 map) but must have crossed it without spotting it. Again very rough and slow going.

You were correct to run to the road bend, before heading off on the bearing. Again most of it is rough going, though there is a trod that's a lot easier to find if you run it in reverse (i.e. head out from HBK to Cock Hill) - but it does just run out and you're back into rough ground; I've never managed to find it coming the proper way on the few occasions I've come back that way.

4) Got very confused from CP13 to CP14.....are there any flags on the day for this section?

Yes, I think there are - when you emerge from the side of the golf course, there's marshalls and flags directing you down to WoodEnd Bridge.

Hope that helps

[mapper]

............now I know why it's called 'The Trog'.

Good luck Goose Fat !

[BillJ]

3) CP11 to CP12 just followed a bearing from the bend in the road at 011324 to high Brown Knoll. I was hoping to pick up Black Gate path (shown on the 1:25000 map) but must have crossed it without spotting it. Again very rough and slow going.

You were correct to run to the road bend, before heading off on the bearing.

Just in case...
you're not allowed to run down the road, but you can follow alongside the road on the moor to the bend.
Cheers, Bill

[crowhill]

Just in case...
you're not allowed to run down the road, but you can follow alongside the road on the moor to the bend.
Cheers, Bill

aye, that's what I meant, although it might have seemed that I was implying you could run down the road...
Cheers.

[crowhill]

Weather permitting, who's planning on trogging?

[Manhar]

I'm looking to do a swift half - must be getting soft in my old age.