The Lancashire Trig Bagger Challenge Logbook: Hiking & Walking Challenge Featuring 101 Trig Pillars in Lancashire

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For many years a key feature of my walking has been to visit Ordnance Survey triangulation pillars, also known as trig pillars. To the best of my knowledge the routes are entirely on public rights of way or within areas that are open for public access.

Halton Hill is a mountain summit in the Penrith to Lancaster region in the county of Lancashire, England. I carefully plotted the unusually large number (seventy-five) on this map * and found I had already visited eight of them. Trig located near pond which was full of ducks today original plug good views depite drizzle trig has cracks on sides. It was only when one of my Twitter buddies, Moira, asked how many I had “bagged” did I stop and try to work it out. Walk the Stage and then just before the climb up to Entwistle railway station turn right and use the road to cross the Wayoh reservoir and then up to the main road.Then follow the path with some duckboards to left of a lone tree by a small hillock to a marker post. Thanks to the construction of a paved path and moorland restoration work Black Hill is now grassy again. Lots of cake and whisky was consumed, made all the more special by the presence of the Ordnance Survey, who joined us in the celebrations. The determination and energy required at the start driven by the excitement to start a walk, then the sense of achievement of reaching the top. The summit can be identified by: large cairn Additional Notes: All the walks up Heald Brow on Mud and Routes can be seen above.

Couldn't see any marked paths through farm so ended up skirting round the milking sheds, passed a wee dead calf which I couldn't then get out of my head.Walking back I was rewarded with extensive views into the valley across to Blackburn and Darwen with its famous tower above resembling a toy-town spaceship: my next but one objective. As it happens this one does and is well worn thanks to it being used by the gamekeepers to access the grouse butts nearby. After 75m turn left, through the stile gate and take the path across the field to another stile gate. My imagination, by the way, is far from desultory; I'm presently plotting a short story in which a walker, inevitably northern and well stricken in years, goes doo-lally through an excess of cakes and tea and starts rendering homage to these unbeguiling stumps, believing them to be the souls of dead protesters who participated in The Great Moors Walk back when bread was still rationed.