Easy hikes and walks around Broughton

Tip6 How To View In Split-Screen Note: an alternative to split-screen is to view on 2 devices, e.g. laptop and mobile. Instructions: (a) an Android phone (b) a Windows PC View the photo slideshow on one half of the screen and the description on the other - scroll the two halves independently to compare a photo with e.g. the description in Tip1. If using a tablet/mobile, view the description in the Komoot website and the photos in the app - easier to pinch-zoom to see different parts of photo more clearly. (a) Video Instructions - an Android Phone If viewing this in the Komoot website then tap the image below for a video on how to use a split-screen. If you are viewing this tip in the Komoot app then tapping the image to start the video will not work. Instead, click the link that will display here on the app page. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=43NuPS5Juxg On a mobile phone it's better to view the video in landscape. A split-screen should work on most Android devices. (b) Instructions for Windows Easy to do in Windows 10/11. You have a choice - you can open the same webpage in two different web browsers displayed on the two halves of the screen or open the same webpage using a single web browser in two windows on the two halves. The instructions below are minimal. For a more detailed explanation see Comment10 in this link: https://www.komoot.com/tour/610244459 These instructions use a single web browser, e.g. Chrome. 1) First open this webpage on your Windows PC, maximise it and scroll to these instructions. Copy the web address. You will need to paste it - see below. 2) Locate this browser's tab on the taskbar. Opposite click on it and click 'Open new window'. When opened then maximise it if necessary and paste the web address into the new window and scroll to these instructions so that you can continue to follow them. 3) Press and hold the Windows key and press the left arrow key. The active window will move the left side of the split screen. 4) You should now see the right hand half of the first window. Click that window to display it 'on top'. These instructions should still be visible on the right. Check that it is full screen. Press and hold the Windows key again and press the right arrow key. 5) The two windows should now display, left and right. You may need to make a small adjustment (drag) if the windows overlap slightly at the join. Scroll one window to display the photos and the other for the photo descriptions in Tip1.

Tip5 Haslam Park Nature Reserve Description The nature reserve is wooded grassland with mostly narrow, dirt or gravel paths. This route through the western part is rarely visited by cyclists. You may see walkers with dogs. In wet weather the paths can be muddy - manageable on a road bike - fat tyres may help. After a period of wet weather the route is very muddy on about 15 metres alongside Savick Brook before the bridge (photo P10) - you may have to dismount and push. About 15 metres of boardwalk would help. That same stretch is bumpy with tree roots. Take care. If cycling with children, take care beside the brook and when crossing the bridge over the brook on the route described above. You may not immediately see the brook through the trees and so not realise that the sometimes muddy, slippery ground at the side of the track is the bank of a river. Unlike the other bridges across the brook, this bridge has no safety barriers at the sides.

Highgate Wood is worth a visit - and the route along the new boardwalk beside the lake is recommended - a short detour if you are following the path east from Garstang Road along Savick Brook. There is no indication that cycling is not permitted but give way to walkers. It is safer to push a bike on the boardwalk. Stop and wait for walkers to pass. Hitting the bike's front wheel against the edging could lead to a very nasty fall.

Tip3 Haslam Nature Reserve Detour - with satnav These notes apply if using satnav on a tour and you wish to switch to another tour, a detour supported by satnav, and then maybe rejoin the original tour. To switch tours you need both tours in your Komoot profile. You can start/end a tour at any convenient point on the route. At the switch point a) stop/save the 1st tour, stage1. b) open/start the detour, stage2. If the two tours physically meet and you are not joining an off-grid part of the tour then no problem. In this example the best switch point is not at the point where the two tours meet at canal bridge 15. That's because the detour through the Nature Reserve starts with a short, off-grid section. Ideally you should switch about 300 metres before bridge 15 - then continue cycling. The navigation can then process the route ahead and provide guidance before reaching the off-grid start of the detour. The navigation continues from the stage2 start to the end point, where you stop and save stage2. The Cottam via Lancaster Canal Ribble Link Loop is a good example of stage1. Then switch to the Haslam Park Preston Marina Loop (stage2, link below) for the satnav through the Reserve. https://www.komoot.com/tour/610244459 Summary: a) Stop, finish, save the navigation for stage1. b) Start the Haslam Park tour (the detour) in your Profile, stage2, before its start point at bridge15. Select "Retain off grid" - otherwise the navigation will take a different route. Continue to bridge 15. From there you could walk along the off-grid path (photo P5) to the gap in the hedge (P6) to check that you have switched to and are following the correct blue navigation route on your device's screen. The Nature Reserve route is not typical and so some satnav directions may be difficult to interpret - if so, check the photo-guide. c) Complete the navigation through the reserve. Stop, finish and save the navigation. The result is 2 completed tours. d) You can leave a tour to join a route variation (a detour) and then rejoin (switch back to) the original tour (stage3). To switch back (not necessarily to the detour point), locate the original tour in your Profile and start the navigation to rejoin that tour - not essential in the above example because the detour takes you to near your start in Haslam Park.

A touching tribute to a local hero.

Tip2 Haslam Nature Reserve Detour - without satnav The detour is an option if you are following a tour (see "An Example Tour" below) that passes close to canal bridge 15. An exception is the Haslam Park Preston Marina tour: https://www.komoot.com/tour/610244459 which includes the Nature Reserve detour. Leave your tour at or near bridge 15, Highlight2 on photo3 (P3) to take the detour. Use the photo-guide for navigation. Don't stop your tour's navigation - your route will be recorded including the detour. You continue to receive voice navigation for the original tour. Ignore it (reduce volume) until you leave the reserve to rejoin your tour. If you stop it then you lose the navigaton that will assist the return to your tour. An Example Tour that Passes the Nature Reserve Detour Point Cottam via Lancaster Canal Ribble Link Loop: https://www.komoot.com/tour/1118780163 The above tour illustrates the technique. Start/End at Haslam Park. Even if the detour is a challenge you are not far from the tour's end. On the return leave the canal at bridge15, near the detour's start, currently red Highlight4 on the tour's map, link below: https://www.komoot.com/tour/1118780163/zoom Remember - do not stop your tour's navigation. Follow the detour's photo-guide, Tip1. To exit the reserve to rejoin the above tour back in the park Either (preferred): a) Cross bridge (photo P13), turn left between gateposts (P17), then left along the off-grid path to the brook. Before the brook fork right on path SE. Avoid the steep bit ahead via a path on its left. Join Haslam Park's path on the map, P18, halfway between the park entrance, point A and point (a) on map. For the Cottam Lane parking turn right to point A. For Bristow Ave turn left. Or: b) Cross bridge (P13). Follow Tip1's photoguide from the 4.5 minute point to the exit through hedge into Cottam Lane (photos 15 and 16). Turn left to the Cottam Lane park entrance (P19). If not parked at Cottam Lane, continue through the park to your start-end point near Bristow Ave. The satnav should pick up a route to your start. Alternative: Follow a-b-c (P18). Cross bridge (g), then g-h-e-d End/Save the navigation. Visitors to Haslam Park If just visiting, try a short ride/walk through the reserve. Use the photoguide and/or the satnav in tour: https://www.komoot.com/tour/610244459 For walks, see Tip5 in the park's highlight. https://www.komoot.com/highlight/3873377 See Tip3 below - how to use satnav through the nature reserve.

Tip1 Photo-Guide or Satnav through the Nature Reserve to Cottam Lane - Walk or 10min Cycle The 3rd photo, P3, shows this highlight's location, red 2, beside Lancaster Canal bridge 15. If you see only Tip1 open: https://www.komoot.com/highlight/4114660 Despite the above "Cycling not permitted at this location", photo P4, taken from this location, shows a cycle path, a Haslam Park/Nature Reserve sign and a blue-bike sign. Visitors to the park can include the Nature Reserve route in a walk or cycle. Parking at Cottam Lane and Bristow Avenue park entrances. Link: https://www.komoot.com/highlight/4092174 You can use the route through the reserve as a detour from a Komoot tour that passes close to the park - e. g. via the canal towpath. Join the detour at the highlight location. The detour route ends near the Cottam Lane park entrance. Then rejoin your tour. See Tip2. The P3 map shows part of a tour (blue route) that includes the photo-guide route through the reserve. If needed, satnav is provided along the detour by that tour, link: https://www.komoot.com/tour/610244459 See Tips 2 to 4 below. Route Description - Photo-Guide View in split-screen (Tip6) or 2 screens to see photos alongside the description of the route through the reserve. Best to view photos in the Komoot app. From the start, blue-bike sign P4, Highlight2 on P3, follow the gravel path - 20 paces. Fork right (P5) onto the off-grid path, hedge on right. In 30 paces go through gap in hedge (P6). Take care - safer to dismount and you may encounter a walker/cyclist approaching the gap. Follow path NW then W. Cycle times based on continuous cycling. 1 min - W to SW - group of trees straight ahead (P7). Continue straight on, W then S between points 5 and 6, on brown, off-grid path (P8 - top of map is west). If using satnav it may instruct to turn left onto blue, on-grid path - ignore it. Path turns S - group of trees close (P9). 2.5 min - go south (P10). If using satnav, an instruction to turn right, back on-grid. Turn right (W) near the trees to bank of brook, then S and E around edge of field - brook on right. 3.5 min - path more distinct - maybe muddy (P11). 4.5 min - T-junction (P12). Turn right across bridge. No barrier- take care (P13). Turn right. Path divides (P14) - take right fork. A feint path goes to hedge on left to Cottam Lane (P15). 6 min - P16 looks back through hedge. Go right in Cottam Lane if you plan to join the canal at bridge 16. See Tips 2 to 4 for options.

Tip4 More Detail - Switching Between Tours See Tips 2 & 3 This technique is only necessary if you wish to combine the two or more tours into a single, completed tour. Check that you have the tours in your Profile. When trying this technique, it's a good idea to practise with tours you are familiar with. To save time join the first tour at a point close to the switch point - maybe less than 1km - and similarly a switch point quite close (about 200 metres) to the tour you intend to join. To save more time try a dummy run at home. You don't have to ride the tours. Just try switching from the 1st to the 2nd tour and back as described below. Then try it for real. At the switch point: a) Stop, but do not finish, the 1st tour. b) Locate and open the next tour in your Profile. Tap the left pointing chevron at bottom or the equivalent on your device (the back button) to display the Profile button. This part can be tricky - if you cannot switch to your Profile then finish and save the tour in a) and try again from b) - and similar in g). c) You may be prompted to "Resume Navigation". d) Select Navigate and follow the usual procedure to start the tour. e) Select "Retain off grid" if that is displayed. e) Start navigation. f) Check that your location along the route of the tour is shown on the map. g) When completed, stop but do not finish the 2nd tour. h) Repeat to join another tour or to return to the original tour to continue on that tour. i) Finish and save the tour. If you were able to stop without finishing in a) and g) then all parts of the two or more tours should now be saved as a single, continuous tour. If you practise using the Nature Reserve detour then it may be a good idea to check out the Nature Reserve route in advance. Park in a Haslam Park carpark or the UCLan Arena, cycle to a point on the canal about 200m from bridge 15, start the Haslam Park tour navigation above, head for bridge 15 and navigate through the reserve from bridge 15 to Cottam Lane. From there you can turn right up Cottam Lane back to the canal at bridge 16 or turn left to the Haslam Park Cottam Lane entrance.