Good breakfast, lovely host who made breakfast early despite it being Sunday.
Soon back on the canal path and made my way to the standedge tunnel where the canal disappears into the pennines for 3 miles and i climb up to meet the pennine way at Standedge.
At the start of my penine way i met a walker who’s company i enjoyed for a while, he knew the area very well and leads walks apparently, one area people could get lost in was rather a field of rocks.
Reaching M64 bridge which is rather impressive in itself (i do remember seeing a documentary about how much scaffolding was needed to build this, enough to support the shuttering and concrete when poured, but also to support the amount of ice that accreted on the scaffold which was enormous), i missed out on snack at the famous burger van just prior to this as it being sunday the van wasn’t present.
really cold wind and black sky at that point then improved weather.
After a while Stoodly pike can be seen in the distance so acts as a general direction marker, up close it sure is big.
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