After moving up that way, the fIrst time I rode it I’d assumed that most people were able to clear it, simply because even though there was a lot of talk about Cut Gate, nobody ever mentioned walking any of it.
As a soft southerner, I walked most of that wee climb, felt extremely glad it was not a weekend so nobody could see my pathetic attempt, and generally felt so useless I wondered if I should sell my bike. It didn’t take long to realise that my attempt was pretty much par for the course, and that the only climb in the Peak to publicly admit walking is Jacob’s Ladder..