I parked at Heatherdene car park and walked to the dam and the down to the road at the foot of Parkin Clough. From here up Win Hill is an excellent little work out up the sometimes very steep forest path. On a summer day the top is always busy. A bit of indecisiveness on my part meant I decended almost to Twitchill Farm but then took a right on the path that goes up and along Hope Bank the long NW right of Win Hill. Somewhere round about 167865 I noticed some people on bikes emerging from the woods on the right on a path not markred on the OS map. In a spirit of exploration I thought, Hey, let’s try going down that way towards the reservoir. Bad idea. It was soon clear this was a track exclusively for the more adventurous kind of mountain biker and there were places were it was impossibly steep and slippery for a walker. I wasn’t carrying my pole which did not help. I carried on taking great care but at one point care was not enough and I took a nasty slip which left a large ugly graze on my lower back. I brushed myself off and make it back down to the reservoir and then the long trek alongside it back to the dam.
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