7 riders George, Paul, Neil, Jamie, John, Charlie and Grant (on his own bike for a change) met up at the Hummer Lane forest access point, Charlie and Grant had set off earlier and left their cars at Torver so that they did the climb up Hummer lane at the beginning of the ride rather at the end they also made the offer to transport the rest of back up at the end of the ride. We set off west down the fire road, we continued on until the right hand bend in the track, where we looked for a marker on the LHS to find a route through the trees. This ultimately gets us down into the valley bottom. From here we transversed along the bridleway we used at the end of the Broughton Mills ride so that we could asend Walna Scar on the route Jamie had taken on the latter ride. This route was much more interesting and technical than the fire road and we continued tohead up the valley and work our way up to the old quarry buildings before starting the Walna Scar road proper. I am not sure how many riders made it too the top without walking as Paul on I were somewhat behind on this section. Once at the top, we appreciated the views. Time for a quick snack and a wind proof top for the next descent DOWN Walna Scar Road, the rocks for the next section were large and loose, it is quite a testing descent, all down OK past Goatfoot crags and take the right turn, here there is a testing drop off, just to check nerves! Then down past the quarry, but we enjoyed the down! back to Torver via the lanes. Charlie and Grant then offered to taxi the other riders back up to the start point at the top of Hummer Lane but all the other riders declined prefering to make the climb to complete the ride. We left Grant and Charlie debating whether they should go to the pub.
Cheers George, aways a good warm down ride back to the cars! next ride is the mid-summer special and is a repeat of last years ride from Ribblehead, meet just after the Viaduct and the road junction to Horton (B6479) plenty of parking on the road side.
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