I’ll have a look round on the web later but if anyone has a good route gpx’d I’d welcome it to my inbox, email on profile or if you’d like to suggest one I can find online that’d great. Looking for about 50kms anywhere round hope, edale looking to take in the beast, ladybower etc for a good afternoon off.
Thanks.

50k in the Peak is quite a ride and would take me a lot more than an afternoon !

A couple of options for you ….

You could add an extra loop to this one http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=nerovfstnhgducdd

Or shave a little bit off this one (different start point perhaps?) http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=znykcjrynlzzegpm

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50k in the Peak is quite a ride and would take me a lot more than an afternoon !

This. Did a 65km in the Peaks couple of weeks ago. Combined Ladybower and Edale loops. Proper hard all-day ride. Great fun though. Took in all the main descents apart from The Beast (but could swap that in for Potato Alley and shorten the ride a little).

50k in the Peak is quite a ride and would take me a lot more than an afternoon !

depends on the person surely,

the British Heart Foundation used to run a couple of dark peaks rides,

longest is 70km, i did it in 5 hours on a Krampus, 4hr 20m on a XC bike, 4-5 hours, thats an afternoon 🙂

heres the strava section for part of it, you should be able to nab the GPX from someone

https://www.strava.com/activities/85493017/segments/1769028728

This, which included Jacobb’s Ladder and The Beast, took me 4hr 50m and I’m not quick. If you’d like the .gpx let me know.

Yeah was thinking bout midday through 6pm, 40-50k seems about to right.
Th

so I plotted my own route which is pretty bang on 50k, out of hope to include the beast and nabbs wood then up to the twin peaks of cutgate, round the top and back down cutgate and then back to hope by track and road to save my poorly legs.
Critique if you like: https://www.justgoride.co.uk/routes/13725
maybe I’ll just turn back round once up the first cutgate climb, see how I feel when I get up there.

Also you don’t know if you can cross the res at howden dam? on google maps it looks like you can’t. It’s adding miles on as I have to go down to the bottom of the upper derwent to cross.

Looks like a cracking day out – we do something very similar starting from Hope. Cut Gate should be running nicely at the moment.

You’re right – you can’t cross Howden Dam but it’s fairly easy rolling round past the visitor centre – good opportunity to stop for a brew 🙂

Critique if you like

After you drop down past nabbs wood, I’d just keep up the east side of the reservoir, pops you out up at the bottom of the cut gate climb.

Also, if you still have the legs for it, as you come back down the side of ladybower, turn left up the bridleway just after ashes farm and head up to whinstone lee tor. then either cheeky down over ladybower tor if its quiet in the evening or more sensibly down to cutthroat bridge and then down to the ladybower pub.

I’d also park up on the side of the road near the yorkshire bridge pub (bottom end of ladybower, in yorkshire bridge) so that you a/ start with a road warm up before the climb to hope cross and b/ if you do what I say above, you finish the day with a fun descent.

excellent suggestions cp, amended: https://www.justgoride.co.uk/routes/13727

maybe I will just do one up for cutgate and turn back round if I know I’ve got more offroad up and downhill towards the end. Better get going.

Let us know how it goes @jekkyl. I love it there.

I’d just keep up the east side of the reservoir

of course i meant west, but you seem to have realised that too 🙂

Had a great time, ending up doing around 40kms, very tiring with full sun beating down, the offroad uphills were brutal, off & walking a few times. But, shorts n’ T-shirt & dry as a bone trails plus sun & 24°C… living the winter dream.

That top pic really doesn’t do the gradient any justice