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 Four Assed Monkey
Posted: 14/04/05 12:03:19 19
Message: The steppy bridleway off stanage before the causeway is called the salt road. Fantastic bit of technical riding - formerly used by ponies transporting salt to Sheffield.

Watch out for the wheel grabbing gaps between the rocks on the middle section. I've had a vey painful over the bars incident there and the rocks don't give much when you hit them.

BTW - on topic - from Wharnecliffe, you need to go through Beeley Wood to Claywheels Lane which brings you out st the far end of Hillsborough. From there you can get to Rivelin Dam in about 15 minutes either on the roads (Penistone Rd, Holme Ln, Rivelin Valley Rd) or - if you don't object to 'special' bridleways - you can ride the Rivelin Nature Trail to the post office and then 1/2 a mile road to the dam wall road into wyming brook. From there are loads of tracks to Redmires and ultimately Stanage. If you follow the main byway, it brings you out further up Redmires Rd than the 3 Merry Lads route. My fave route is to follow the byway up to a junction and turn right. Just before it spits you out on to the A57 there is an unclassified singletrack on the left up the hill. Follow this (steep and technical) until you hit a T junction on open moors. Turn left and keep going until you come to a gate. At the gate, you can go on the legal trail to the left which goes through about 3 gates and comes out next to the reservoir, or you can go straight ahead on a footpath over the hill which drops you on to the road literally 500 yards from the Stanage Pole climb.

Used to be my usual solo evening ride as an out and back from Wharnecliffe, out on the route and then down the salt rd and back up the causeway and home on the same route. Great Ride.
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