Widdop and Gorple Reservoirs 15th February 2015

This is a walk I’ve done many times and cycled it too. Today I went from Widdop dam and up to the rocks at Shuttleworth Moor and Black Moor overlooking Upper Gorple reservoir. Across to Upper Gorple on a permissive path and then to Lower Gorple reservoir. It was mainly misty with the odd glimpse of sun. I took a path that was new to me to get back across to Widdop. It went through a boggy and gloomy wood where most of the trees had died. The path had been moved which I only realised because I had to check a bearing when I got out of the wood. Then crossed a good chunk of featureless moorland and came out at the top of Cludders Slack. I don’t know what that means but I like it. Some really vast rocks litter the hillsides round here.

Widdop reservoir
Widdop reservoir
Cludders Slack
Cludders Slack
Lower Gorple reservoir
Lower Gorple reservoir
Upper Gorple reservoir
Upper Gorple reservoir
Widdop reservoir
Widdop reservoir
Cludders Slack
Cludders Slack
Widdop reservoir
Widdop reservoir

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