Kirklees Way

Submitted by MattHampson on Sat, 09/07/2024 - 04:14pm
Description

The Kirklees Way is a 74-mile (120 km) waymarked footpath which circles the district of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

It was opened in 1990 and includes a mixture of landscapes from exposed moorland tops to industrial towns in the valleys.

The GPS attached here starts at Holme village and runs clockwise, but since it is a circular route, it may be attempted in either direction and starting/ finishing at any point.

Colonel Bob Via Quinault

Submitted by dashingabout on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 04:38pm
Description

An absolute classic of a "climb" on the western peninsula. Summer is the ideal season to attempt an FKT, due to deep snow in the winter which can linger in some capacity into June or even early July on a good year. This is one of the two routes to the Colonel Bob lookout, the longer and harder of the two. The climb starts in the Quinault rainforest on the South Shore Road, and steeply switchbacks its way up Ziegler Creek, passing through a beautiful ancient rainforest untouched by logging.