Wilderswood , Crooked edge Hill ,Two Lads, Wallsuches to new chapel lane , Winter Hill, Horwich

route

http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/two-lads-to-new-chapel-lane-horwich-304860/

3 miles - Wilderswood , Crooked edge Hill ,Two Lads, Wallsuches  to New Chapel lane

http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Two_Lads_Cairns.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Pennine_Moors

Jakes blogs for Montcliffe

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/Montcliffe

Jakes Blogs for two lads 

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/Two%20lads

Jakes Blogs for New Chapel Lane

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20chapel%20Lane

note from Dad : Wilderswood  - on the left hand side of the wood was shaft number 1 for wilderswood colliery 

 Rivington Pike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_Pike

 Lower Rivington reservoir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Rivington_Reservoir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Rivington_Reservoir

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jed/rivington_reservoirs.htm

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/landscape/landscapecharacass/charcarea9.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/journey/underground/reservoir/history.shtml

Me in the mist
 http://justramblingon.co.uk/history-pages/two-lads-hill/

http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Two_Lads_Cairns.html

 note from dad :Memorial to Claire Astbury  1977 to 2009 which we found just below two lads

http://claire-bear-astbury.gonetoosoon.org/

me on top of two lads it was too windy to stay upright safely 

me running down the hill from two lads  

can you find me 

me in the mud 

coal on the path , pieces of old brick found on this path 

pieces of burnt coal  called clinker -
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clinker

Note from dad :armchair - almost a bell pit shape -side nearest seems to have been washed away!

me climbing out of a stream

 Red Moss , Reebok stadium  from Montcliffe

 one tiny orange mushroom - can you see ?

iron rail found on path down from Lower Montcliffe Quarry 

 fossil which we found last time

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGeyZdQgMywEqrbpgOh970bD7pTdX98DplnltK9wUOnVhOWn7YLOkotZDS38Bb-mKGcVEuTJY1wHlOZR7kcY8CyB0R1xMuIY3lZUmbMI9ELfUFuIBMzFl09BqGM5K232tgygCAYsmae0/s1600/IMG00197.jpg

 Path up to one of the Montcliffe lower quarries

on the way to the reservoir above the Arcon development  on the way to Wallsuches 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallsuches

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-462376-wallsuches-bleach-works-horwich

http://www.redrow.co.uk/developments/arcon-village/

weather:

visibility went from  just under a mile  to 15 metres in just under 10 mins 

high wind chill factor , sleet some snow and hail ,

enjoy and keep safe when outside

please take care 

http://www.bowlandpenninemrt.org.uk/home.htm

http://www.boltonmrt.org.uk/go.php?page=main

http://www.lancashireminesrescue.colsal.org.uk/