A nice all rideable and interesting route is along the river path from Elterwater to skelwith bridge, road then bw to sunny brow, up to iron Keld where you can take a right at signpost and fun rocky track back down to bw to sunny brow, back up and then down from iron Keld to the road, quick pedal up the tarmac then across to hodge close, take slightly sunken middle track from the quarry, left to Holme ground farm, up r then fun up then down track all the way to fell foot bridge. R along the road then track past dale end, l on bw back to Elterwater. better ride than loughrigg imo, although you could do both.
Went up Rossett, down to seatoller, along langstrath then over stakepass on Saturday, it’s hard work if your not used to portaging but a good day with challenging rocky downs.
Don’t do stakepass, langstrath, green edge into grasmere. It’s floating about about as classic route but it’s far too much bouldery pushing and carrying.