The Trigger

[GeoffB]

Is Within Clough any quicker than the slabs? I recced it last year & found it was slow going so ended up following the slabs on race day. That said, the line on my recce was less than optimum!

I know the Within Clough route pretty well and I wasn't prepared to run all that way on slabs - partly due to injury, partly because they were covered in ice the previous year. So, each to their own really.

Looking at the OOBs map, there would be more room for nav fun over bleak low if the latter checkpoints were elsewhere. So CP4 near Doctors Gate culvert/north grain, CP5 Seal Stones? There are options along the riverside path down Lady Clough and the famous seven minute crossing etc? Just a thought for the future to avoid a procession from Snake Crossing to Kinder Low.

The point of the 'Trigger' race is to visit the trig points. The old Tanky's Trog route was pretty similar to what you've described, but that involved a long road section down the Snake Pass.