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  • Lake District, any route recommendations please?
  • tom496
    Free Member

    I am off to the Lakes this weekend and apart form the two trail centres and a few routes in the magazines I have very limited knowledge of routes in the area.

    Can anyone recommend me any essential/good mtb routes that I should do, or do you have any GPX routes that I can down load to my Satmap?? We are going to be biased around the Coniston water area but are up for travelling to find the good trails.

    Thanks for any info in advance.

    Trekster
    Full Member

    Conniston area = Walna Scar classic.
    Bridleways in and around Grizdale inc Ironkeld, Tilberthwaite, Hodge Close and Loughrigg Terrace if you head over to Ambleside
    All the Lake bike shops sell printed maps of the good trails for £2 or so.
    If travelling from the south stop off here;
    http://www.wheelbase.co.uk/
    http://www.bogtrotters.org/list_routes.php
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-lowe/3990141566/
    http://www.mountain-bike-cumbria.co.uk/trails.php
    http://www.offroadadventures-online.com/

    GaVgAs
    Free Member

    The easiest way to recommend routes would be to call in at Biketreks at Ambleside,they will advise you on great routes in the area and like all the bike shops in the area have laminated maps you can buy,or I think they can email you some via memorymap.

    My Coniston route would be

    1 from the town old railway cycle path south to spoon hall
    2 Road climb towards Broughton Mills but at the summitt turn right into the forest,forest road for about half a mile turning right onto a Bridleway over Appletree worth beck,(easy to miss,look for a small post)
    3 Road climb, to Stephensons ground farm
    4 Right through wooden gate, heading uphill onto a narrow lane,ford the beck,and carry on until you reach the fell,cross over a boggy area on your left (covered in moto x bike ruts) and join a exellent singletrack following a wall but climbing to Stainton ground.
    5 Head towards the mine in the distance, joining a road near stickle pike top
    6 drop downhill slighly but before going over the cattle gridd turn sharp left, this is an exellent decent to Birks wood.
    Turn sharp right at the house through a gate and join another Bridleway to Far Kiln Bank Farm,Turn right back up the road climb to the cattle grid again and this time, (at the summit) go back (left) onto the stainton ground BW but staying (left) and climb to the col at Brown How,on your right is a faint singletrack that follows the contours around the fell joining the BW back towards Stephensons ground.(avoids a breif downhill to come back up)
    7 stay left here and head up the valley to Nanny Bridge (cow moss) eventuall coming out at the Walna Scar road,big climb to the top!
    8 The highlight of the day is this decent,I prefer it West to East but turning right to Torver and following some great paths to the Pub at the road,join the old railway back to Coniston.

    Its well wrth studying the Map at 25.000 scale for this last decent as its very easy to go wrong, enjoy! 🙂

    Trekster
    Full Member

    +1 ^^^^^

    Pook
    Full Member

    Whatever you do, don’t be tempted to go up Helvellyn via Great Dodd. It’s awful

    GaVgAs
    Free Member

    Whatever you do, don’t be tempted to go up Helvellyn via Great Dodd. It’s awful

    Yes, stay away from this route and leave it for the locals,its too popular!! 😉

    BigJohn
    Full Member

    Coniston to Lawson Park, Carron Crag, bugger about in Grizesdale a bit, Nibthwaite/Parkamoor, Torver, Walna Scar Rd, fall in the stream, Coniston.

    tomaso
    Free Member

    Walna Scar

    lowey
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    GaVgAs
    Free Member

    Loweys routes a corker too.^^^^^^ 🙂

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