Man, I just love the Peaks – just so much top riding to do!
The Edale – Mam Tor – Rushup – Roych – Coldwell – Snake – Kinderlow – Jacobs is a classic – only the top of Rushup and some bits around Kinderlow will be boggy.
You can also go up to Hollins from Edale, then off the ‘left-hand bridleway’ (which will be slippy) then over Jaggers Clough to the Beast or Blackley Hey and then Gores Farm to Ladybower and back via Bridge End and Jaggers again.
My ‘banker’ route in the Peaks is from the Heatherdene car park near the Ladybower Inn. Then ride Derwent Edge over from the pub. Loop back to the road bridge. Then Crook Farm, Hagg Farm, Wooler Knoll, Blackley Hey, Rowlee Farm, Lockerbrook (Gores). A sausage and bacon bap at Fairholmes then back over Whinston Lee Tor, finishing with steaming brakes in the front of the Ladybower Inn for a quick pint or lemonade or whatever. Cracking.
I would avoid Cut Gate after rain – there are bits that make you go hmmm if you tear them up with mtb tyres. Most of the other routes are mostly exposed rock, so no real problem there.