Hiking and walking in South Yorkshire and beyond

  Harden Hill Holmbridge RFM Blue Line Walking with Max 02/04/26 I have to apologise to my brother Peter because I had got mixed up reference our walk and he had to walk on his own. Double booking walks in not good. From now on I will confirm every walk with the invitees the night before so this does not happen again. Any way, back to this walk it was designed to get at least 2000 foot of ascent over around 9 miles. A tough task and Max was up for it. The day started bright and sunny and continued the same for the whole walk. It wasn't hot but pleasantly warm. Straight up to Upper Stubbin from the main road was a steep hill to start with. Halfway up we could see one of the remaining mill chimneys. The ascent was very quick and the views were good from very early on. The lake on the right looked close on the map but we were high up the slope so it was well below us. This was a lovely path but very steep in places. It was still good to get high up so quickly. We paused below the old ...