This summit was activated by myself, accompanied by Jimmy & Liam on Saturday 10th July 2004.   

After Hail Storm Hill SP-009 and lunch, we made the short drive up to the lay-by on the bend in the A681 Todmorden road, arriving at 1.25pm.  By 1.40pm, there was still no sign of Myke G6DDQ, so we decided to start the walk, reckoning that the sight of Penelope by the road would be a dead giveaway to Gwendolyn that we were en route, and fair game to be caught up with Liam exhibiting his finest snail's pace.

Drawing on last year's vile experience of the Rossendale Way path through waterlogged fields and back and forth over rampant barbed wire, this time we took the lower of the two tracks - the Limers Gate path.  This one remains a firm track virtually all the way to the summit and enjoys a very gentle, hardly noticeable gradient, in contrast to other logical routes up from the Britannia side.  There are a number of waymarked paths shooting off to the right, but the Freeholds Top one is not until passing the first big "mine".  July weather it was not - cold, damp and very windy - so at the summit we huddled in between the wall and the fence and enjoyed reasoanble shelter.   We wondered if the absent Myke may be waiting at the summit, since we did note that Gwendolyn would have made it up most of the track, but still no sign.  The summit was qualified, and we set off for our 1 hour walk baclk to the car, accompanied for most of it by Mike G4BLH via the handy.  By the time we returned to the lay-by, Mike G4BLH was there to say hello for the first time in person.

Arrived home at 6.15pm, just in time to have a bath, don the dinner jacket and bow tie and drive back out to Handforth for a gig with the band

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