Today riding on our country’s finest natural trails were Paul and I (Dazza). The rest of the Mudpackers were riding the country’s finest single track….so as you see variety is the spice of life.

What Paul and I decided to do (after I had fixed his rear brake) was to ride from Trawden over the Worsthorne and up and round the new bridleway that links the track with Wycoller. You can now follow the route from the Gorple Track (top of the Mary Towneley Loop) to Wycoller although it isn’t yet signed as Pennine Bridleway. From Gorple the new route is followed over the hill before zig-zagging down (these are not sweeping bends, rather tight air pins) to Swinden Clough and up the other side to a junction where we followed the route right (left is FP taking you towards a quarry). The track then continues on until another junction where you turn left in front of the fence (a FP continues through the fence and on and on and on). Having passed through a gate you zig zag downhill again (very tightly) ultimately reaching the road near a cattle grid. Here you follow the left hand road for a short way before turning right over a bridge and through a high gate and on into Thursden wood, or you can go straight up the road. At the top of the wood you reach the road which is followed for a few metres before you will see a route in the verge on the right that will lead onto a new section of BW over Will Moor (aka Moor Bottom) that then links to the existing BW towards Wycoller (via Turnhole Clough) and then the track into Wycoller. The overall mileage is 18 miles.