Micro Event: Peak District Classic Scramble

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Scrambling
Apr 10
2021

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Grade 2/3 & Grade 1 Scrambles requiring an ability to move confidently on vertical rock.

Join us as we set out to tackle two of the Peak District's best Classic Scrambles!

Wildboar Clough (Grade 2/3) & Torside Clough (Grade 1)

Starting from the Peak District National Park Car park, we'll briefly follow the Longdendale Trail, before picking-up the path taking us up along the lower section of Wildboar Clough before joining the main stream bed itself after around 1.5Km. Good footwork will be required as we weave our way up the clough, following the rocks to the side of the stream and alongside a number of waterfalls, but good skill should keep you're feet dry!!

There's a couple of technical sections that earn this route it's grading, meaning that climbing harness & helmet are ESSENTIAL!!

After climbing around 120m the stream levels out and we'll emerge onto Shining Clough Moss which we'll cross to pick up the Penine way for about another 1.5km until we reach the head of Torside Clough, where again, delicate foot work will be needed to keep your feet dry as we follow the stream down through some narrow and deep canyons and over some great boulders making this a Grade I Scramble. 

Once the stream levels out again we'll pick-up a small footpath climbing slightly before re-joining the Longdendale Trail once more for a couple of KM's to return to the car-park!

Anyone familiar with Dark-Peak gritstone will know it as tactile and grippy, but following streams does mean some sections will be greasy (to say the least). The "climbing" is generally 'short&sweet' and we'll set up a quick belay where it's needed, but there is a lot of "hands-on rock" for much of both sections of the scrambling, so an ability to move confidently on vertical rock, above water, is needed.

Total walk : approx. 12km / 400m ascent

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