Riding over Coniston next weekend and have a few routes pulled off for it from gpsies.com and the singletrack PDFs but a few personal reccommendations would be good too.

Cheers..

I hope you have you got the garburn pass loop or I ain't coming. 😉

walna scar via parkmoor -see boggies web site for routes also has them in mmo and gpx I thin

I dont ride with them if their leader is anything to go by they must be xxxx 😆

http://www.bogtrotters.org/rides/gallery/

http://www.bogtrotters.org/list_routes.php

EDIT:not sure if above is on there but basically round coniston and finishes at walna scar but a long ride 26 miles ish iirc

Bit of a bump for the Sunday night peeps, any other top choices for Ambleside direction?

Garburn is a long way from Coniston…

Walna Scar might be an acceptable alternative

Just a heads up about Ambleside for the 4th/5th Sept – its the great north swim in Windermere so I reckon traffic/parking over that way could be a bit of a shocker. According to the website there are 9,000 people taking part 😯

http://www.greatswim.org/Events/British-Gas-Great-North-Swim/Default.aspx

Another vote for walna scar. When i got to the top, put my lungs back in, i vowed never to do it again. But now i really want to. And grizedale is the other side of the lake if that takes yer fancy, bresty haw is ace!

North Face (red) Grizedals Forest.

When i got to the top, put my lungs back in

Yes it is hard going pushing a bike..i did not clear it walking without stopping 😳 We did have a 24 mile approach though.

Grizedale from Coniston by lowey.com, on Flickr

Coniston – Grizedale – Blawith – Duddon – Walna Scar by lowey.com, on Flickr

Cheers Lowey, got quite a few now! Do you have the Coniston to Grizdale as a GPX file you could email me?

Er… I logged it with my tracks so might have… i'll have a rummage around. I can deffo send you the MMO tho.

You wont go wrong with them 2 though mate. I would say they were the best routes when based in Coniston.

Dont forget to get a pint of Olivers Pale Ale in the Bull.. ,uch nicer than the Bluebird… but they do charge like a wounded rhino.

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Well I "think" I;ve sent it to you from my phone. Let me know if it works or not.

traffic/parking over that way could be a bit of a shocker

Erm, the great North swim is based around Ambleside\Waterhead, the routes above all start in Consiton, if there is a parking problem in the Consiton area something has gone horribly worng !!