40 degrees on Maiden Moor

 

We climbed Maiden Moor up Ellers Beck and Greenup. It was as steep as anything we've been up so I have been counting the contours on the map. In the section shown, I counted 15 contours in 1cm. That's an angle of 30 degrees. But it got steeper. I counted 7 contours in 3mm which comes in at nearly 40 degrees. I'd always thought 45 degrees was the steepest we'd climbed but that seems unlikely. 30 degrees now seems to be the steepest normal slope.