Higher Shelf Stones

& Bleaklow Head

DATE : 23rd November 2003










Harrop Moss & Shelf Benches from the lower reaches of shelf brook


Further up is Shelf Benches to the right & Dog Rock to the left


View back on the course of Shelf Brook


To the right the old Roman road of Doctor's Gate path follows Shelf Brook


Now on Shelf Benches looking west towards Shire Hill & Glossop


Higher up are Wigan Clough & Dog Rock


The steep , curving Crooked Clough from James's Thorn


Ahead are the Higher Shelf Stones


White Clough from Higher Shelf Stones with the top of the Snake Pass up on the left


The eastern view with Kinder Scout and the pointed Win Hill visible


The remains of the B29 Superfortress "Overexposed" of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance
Squadron which crashed near Higher Shelf Stones on 3rd November 1948


Studying the route on the summit of Bleaklow Head


Looking across Longendale valley to Bareholme Moss


Clough Head summit with Bleaklow Head behind


The line of Grouse butts leading to Cock Hill


Final view back towards Shelf Moor