[Closed] Hebden / Halifax trail conditions

The flood warning sirens are currently ringing out here in Tod 😯
Make of that what you will.

[url= http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/416349/Phew-What-a-difference-a-year-makes ]Somebody[/url] spoke too soon . . .

Cheers all,
Anybody actually been out tonight to sample the conditions? Hoping it might run off the baked hard ground!

Ta

Personally I wouldn't dare let rain/mud etc stop a ride, Especially somewhere as good as Hebden.

Natural trails, Natural weather. Do it.

Really not looking good:

Hebden Bridge Times - [url= http://www.hebdenbridgetimes.co.uk/ ]linky. [/url]

Poor sods.

Am off Wednesday & Friday if anyone needs a hand clearing up.

This is the main road through Walsden this evening.

My old house on the left, up the bank on Chapel St South. 😐
Have seen it like that a good few times.

thanks all, so it has rained a bit - or maybe a bit more than a bit - but those pics are valley bottoms where run off is most fierce.

Any further updates?

My main concern - are the trails muddy?

Sorry for pressing the point. In my defence this may well be the last opportunity I get to ride out in't pennine hills this summer, but equally I have other stuff I should really be getting on with so want to make sure it is time well spent...

Time well spent is time out on the bike in the mud!

I'm sure it will be rideable. Either way, You'll have fun.

[b]Dandax[/b], you are missing the point! Is it really appropriate to drive into a "disaster area" for a bit of fun?

It is reported that residents have formed a human chain across Halifax Road to stop vehicles driving through and causing further flood damage to homes and businesses.

At Mytholmroyd residents are critical of the speed motorists are driving through flood water at, fearing the waves will flood businesses and homes again.

Unless, like [b]Rusty Spanner[/b], you are offering to help, then stay away from the area, and find somewhere else to ride.

Saw the videos last night - I believe trains are terminating at Hebden because of flooding at Walsden which suggests that is fubar down there. If you want something different, the trails around my end of Calderdale are holding up well (south Halifax, Norland etc) despite the rain we've had.

There are other ways of getting at the riding in the Tod/Hebden/Halifax area without actually using the main roads in the valley bottoms from the South East and West...try heading for Worsthorne, Hurstwood or Mereclough to the East of Burnley and plan a loop Eastwards from there.

Did the Hurstwood, Widdop, heptonstall moor, popples common, Eaves wood loop to Hebden & back up to Gorple & back over to Hurstwood, on Saturday 😉 Cracking loop & right on my doorstep 😉

Rusty Spanner : you done Thieveley Pike from over Crown point way yet ? can even drop over & do the Portsmouth Forest trails from that way bud 😉

I always ride aroud hurstwood/worsthorne way. Do you two have a map of the rides you just mentioned please?

Feel like I can broaden my horizons!

Sorry no maps here bud but drop me an email 😉 bare in mind most rides around Hebden do include some quite knarly technical descents lol !

Not the ones I do. 😀

Sutty, have been up to Theiveley via Towneley, Clowbridge res, then back over the PBW.
They do insist that you push your bike over the golf club access road though.
Weirdos.

Local evening loop is now Foxstones, The Hushings, Cant Clough, play around on the spoil heaps, couple of runs down Hurstwood Trails then back down Gorple Road for tea & medals.
Loving the caff over at Coldwell too.

Don't move to Burnley, they said.
It's awful and you won't like it.
Knobs. It's bloody marvelous.

If you see a grinning fat bloke on a Rock Lobster say hello.

Been out tonight with the boy on south side of valley, in Callis and Pixie Woods. Trails remarkably good. I think the rain has landed on hard ground and mostly run off, not soaked in.

yeah I went over in the end, a few channels cut out by fast flowing water, and a bit slippy on the rocks but otherwise fine 🙂

[quoteDandax, you are missing the point! Is it really appropriate to drive into a "disaster area" for a bit of fun?
It is reported that residents have formed a human chain across Halifax Road to stop vehicles driving through and causing further flood damage to homes and businesses.
At Mytholmroyd residents are critical of the speed motorists are driving through flood water at, fearing the waves will flood businesses and homes again.
Unless, like Rusty Spanner, you are offering to help, then stay away from the area, and find somewhere else to ride.

You can go somewhere for a ride without driving to the exact spot.