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CROWDEN TO STANDEDGE to Blackstone Edge
Distance 12 miles
Leaving Crowden making a steady ascent up towards Laddow Rocks and then the ascent to Black Hill, one of the most desolate spots on the whole route. In wet conditions it can be a mass bog, saying this it's more or less be bog all year round apart from when it freezes.
The descent from black hill brings us down to the A635 crossing the road and re-gaining onto the flat bog path and past the Reservoirs to Standedge, where you can walk down the road past the Floating Light Pub to the farm campsite, or in our case we decide to carry on a little further first of all trying to call in the pub the Floating Light when it opened for us (the pub has now closed down ), and then in the small quarry up past the pub for our tea, a boil in the bag meal, and once again carried on walking on the way crossing the A640 and the A672 and over the M62, an carried on walking until of course we hit the next pub the White House on the A58, and had a meal there, left to find our campsite in the dark of Blackstone Edge.
Campsite: Standege Farm site with limited facilities One shower.
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Below is a selection of four pictures taken from the Pennine way between Crowden and Blackstone Edge.
Re-tracing the Pennine Way 25 Jan & 7th Feb 2004
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See Movie Clip of not ideal conditions along PW
(Move Mouse below to see movie)
With SOUND!!
