I’m just back from a Hayfield/Jacob’s Ladder/Hollins Cross/Mam Tor/Rushup/Roych Clough ride. I saw loads of other groups of riders and the weather was wonderful! It was almost dry :o)

Saw you on the Edale valley road today, looked like a big group. I thought ‘those shorts, those legs, a camera bag, that can only be one person’ 😉

It was indeed very nice out today, we finished wih Cavedale and it was very good indeed. Not too sure about dry though as I ended up hosing the bike off again 🙁

Been a truely fantabulous day!!!
Mabie had “glorious” sunshine.

Simon…need to get out at Easter sometime and may want to join your group!! 8)

looked like a big group

just 16 of us!

Not too sure about dry though as I ended up hosing the bike off again

I did say ‘almost’ 🙂

Simon…need to get out at Easter sometime and may want to join your group!!

by all means 🙂
Our Easter Sunday ride is set as Swaledale, but I still have a free choice for the Saturday beginner ride if you’d care to suggest something 🙂

The grassy bit at the top of cavedale was interesting. The ground was still part frozen with about 1-2 inchs of liquid mud on top. Not a lot of grip really but good bike control practice 🙂

sherwood pines was very dry today, wish i was in the peaks though…that is next weekends jolly.

I was in Hayfield yesterday… hail, rain, strong winds, frankly it was bloody ‘orrible!

glad you had a good one!

Was indeed very nice today, glorious clear skys. I think a load of bogtrotters came down past us on one of the climbs.

A few pics

[pendant]weather was good in The Peak District as well[/pedant]

[pendant]weather was good in The Peak District as well[/pedant]

well, I’m very happy you cleared that up! Does that mean what I call “The Lakes” are actually “The Lake District” ?

[old argument]The Lakes = no lakes but is The Lake District[/old argument]
[correct usage]The Peak.[/correct usage]

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[pendant]weather was good in The Peak District as well[/pedant]

incorrect use of the word ‘pendant’ – someting that I think is typically worn on the end of a necklace, as opposed to something that forms a corner frequented by people bashing on about inconsequential tosh (ourselves included).

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(hope I didn’t misuse any apostrophes or owt…)

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[correct usage]The Peak.[/correct usage]

in that case, where is it ? All I seem to see is lots of piddling little foothills 🙁 Surely if there was only one of it we’d be able to tell ?

I walked up Mam Tor today, weather was amazing, wish I’d had my bike 😐

well whatever it was glorious day in The Peak[pendant]waves[/pendant] thanks – nothing like a pedant that screws up!

lol antigee – great pic – what a sky! 🙂

We were up there to, nine of us from Woburn. Doing your route in reverse.

Doing your route in reverse

very wrong 🙁 We saw loads going the other way – I think the route guides send people that way, perhaps out of spite ? I’ve been up Jacob’s Ladder one time, and am unlikely ever to repeat it.

[correct usage]The Peak.[/correct usage]
Utter toss.

[correct usage]The Peak.[/correct usage]
Utter toss.

the reasoned argument is as follows-
The Peak District gets it name from the people that lived there – it is not a collection of peaks so it is The Peak – though it is convenient for the writers of guide books to split it into the White Peak and Dark Peak this is pretty recent.
As to The Lakes / Lake District- it is a collection of lakes so The Lakes makes sense – though only one of them is actually called a lake.

though only one of them is actually called a lake.

which does not stop them from being lakes

The Peak District gets it name from the people that lived there

and were they all killed ?

The Peak District gets it name from the people that lived there – it is not a collection of peaks
ie it’s not ‘The Peak’, it’s ‘The Peak District’. If you decide to miss the ‘District’ bit off the end, why can some people not decide to add an ‘s’?

why can some people not decide to add an ‘s’?

because it is common and vulgar and I’m sure the Queen wouldn’t do it

because it is common and vulgar

you have me to a tee 🙂

Probably saw you up there at some point – 10 of us from Suffolk were doing the same route (starting and finishing in Edale). Definitely glad we weren’t going *up* Jacob’s Ladder! As you say, absolutely glorious weather – you uploaded your pics yet Simon?

you uploaded your pics yet Simon

no way, I took 700! I’ll start working on them when I get home this evening, so perhaps tomorrow…

I took 700!

Did you find time to ride the bike too?
I only took 18, probably could have taken a few more but I was too busy enjoying the ride and kept forgetting to get the camera out.

I was too busy enjoying the ride and kept forgetting to get the camera out

that only happens to me on downhills like Jacob’s Ladder :o) And even then it’s good to have the camera as an excuse to stop and gather my wits!

It’s a good ride both ways, why do people have to pick fights over something so obviously subjective?

It’s a good ride both ways

perhaps I’m prejudiced against the other way as I fell off on Chapel Gate and broke a finger 🙁 Though I think missing the brilliant downhills on Jacob’s Ladder, Rushup, The Roych and Coldwell Clough are also a factor…

why do people have to pick fights over something so obviously subjective?

no fight, I was easily able to resist the obvious temptation to duff up the people going the wrong way, especially the skinny blonde 🙂 And crazy-legs strongly favours the anticlockwise option.

I just ride it both directions. That way I don’t have to make my mind up.

Chapel gate… think that was the last descent we did, managed to test my knee pads on the way down. They did the job thankfully and I only have a nice little graze on my shin instead of a smashed knee. That’ll teach me to go too fast on trails I’ve never ridden before.

Oh and do people actually manage to ride up Jacobs ladder?

Oh and do people actually manage to ride up Jacobs ladder?

Allegedly, but I don’t talk to people like that 🙁

Oh and do people actually manage to ride up Jacobs ladder?

I’ve seen it done by both Nick Craig and a guy called Martin who posts on here as dibley. Both top end Elite XC’ers. It was the first time in nearly 10 years that Nick had climbed it without dabbing. As a general rule, if anyone off here claims to have ridden it in one go, no dabs, no stopping, I will be VERY sceptical. On the same day that Nick and Martin rode it, there were several other Elite level XCers there who didn’t make it up without a dab.

I managed about 50 yards then decieded a nice walk was the order of the day. Although I did clear every other climb on the way round without dabbing but that jacobs ladder was something else.

then decieded a nice walk was the order of the day.

not even all that nice with your back to the amazing view 🙁

the piccies:
click pic for more

Oh and do people actually manage to ride up Jacobs ladder?

Annoyingly only when there’s nobody around to watch me. Give me an audience and I go to pieces, often not making it to the first corner.

Antigee – how do you feel about ‘The Dark Peak’ and ‘The White Peak’? I tend to think that things (including regions) are called what people call them. Having said that, two early references* to the area use ‘The Peak’ and not ‘The Peak District’

*refs:
De Mirabilibus Pecci (The Wonders of the Peak), Thomas Hobbes, 1636
Gem of the Peak, William Adam, 1840

Oh dear. Never been up or down Jacobs Ladder, but I’ve put it in that way our route tomorrow. Recon I’ll piss it without a dab, but If I don’t, I’ll go down and up untill I do!

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