Im heading up the lakes in feb and i wanna do an overnighter in the bivy bag anyone recommend any good routes or overnight spots please?

Depends on the weather – it’s freezing at the moment and icy as. You could get in real trouble bivvying.
Which areas were you thinking?

no probs there ive just been in mid wales bivvying in -5 pretty cold!
er… around the ambleside area but can travel out.

There’s quite a few caves about, if you plan around staying in one of those you won’t need to change anything if it’s raining.

Mad,I don’t do Bivying! I will be staying in a nice heated cottage in Ambleside half term week. My favorite route ever is going from Windermere and up over Garburn Pass and then finshing in Ambleside, and refilling with the best choc brownie in the world at the rattle grill cafe behind the tourist information centre in Ambleside!. I do it as a day ride.

If you want the route I can share it off my memory map thing! Where in Mid Wales did you go? I live in Llandrindod Wells!

@sppedymat…yeah ill take that route please to have a look could u email it to mjc_226@yahoo.co.uk, I rode from Dolgellua around the back of cadair and bivyed at LLyn Barfog near Mach then back the following day via dovey forest. wicked ride heres a couple of pics
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Big loop of Skiddaw, riding every trail. Gives Lingy Hut as an overnight backup option….

ir_bandito. could u explain more? Ive done a loop of skiddaw before but it was only a few hrs. Where is this Lingy Hut please i could be interested!! do u have a grid for it

Lingy Hut:

Its here

If you piece together every trail on Skiddaw and the Caldbeck Fells in one big loop its comes to about 50 suprisingly hard miles. I did once plot a route on Memory Map. I’ll dig it out later…

never knew it was there…looks wicked thanks ive just looked at MM to see about a route but not sure what is ridable or not so if u can find gpx that would be spot on many thanks, mike

Angle Tarn above Hartsop always seems such a nice place to wildcamp
Streetmap of Angle Tarn
Nip over to Boredale Hause, Boredale and then the Ullswater Lakeshore and for breakfast!
Loads of routes to get you there and more than enough mountain pass action.

One I’m doing in summer.

Park Rosthwaite, climb honister, descend Wharnscale bottoms, over Scarth Gap into Ennerdale, Over Black Sail to Wasdale, climb to styhead. Then either bivvy at Styhead or Sprinkling tarn, Next Day, Rosset Ghyll into Langdale, Up and over Stake Pass and down Langstrath to Rosthwaite.

Lovely. But cold this time of year. Good Luck.

The top of Rossett Gill was ffffffeckin fffffreezing and blowing a gale at the end of November. By contrast I did the Tour of Great Gable and the passes you describe in September and it was balmy.

Both great days out, in succession they’d be fantastic but I’d miss the pub action if I were bivvying.

Mike – ygm

Not far from the Lingy hut down Borrowdale is the Cave that Millican Dalton lived in. Its not bad as caves go! 🙂

http://www.brannan.co.uk/millican_dalton/cave.html#cat

Lowey, that sounds a cracker, I’ll have to look into that.

cheers all got some good ideas to mix up now!!

@lowey…is most of ur route uve described ridable or some of it pushing i seem to remember some of the sections uve mentioned as being rocky when walking? Not 100% tho, may have to figure it out on map and have a go thanks

Mike, bit of carrying involved up Black Sail, Scarth Gap and up to Styhead. Sticks also will be a push.

But hey… your in the wilds of high Lakeland. It goes with the territory.

My pics from 4-Pass route here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ir_bandito/sets/72157629586640551/

Didn’t do the Rosset Gill/Stake Pass bit, but I’ll be back, oh yes…

Somewhere on the forum is a thread with loads of pics of the route, in fantastic conditions too.

Mike – your email account just spammed me…

ir_bandito…sorry about that it keeps sending shit to my friends. Tossers on the net i assume!!

There’s some great descents around Lingy hut, but wet at the moment. The mine access type trails north are the best bet. If you don’t mind nav and some pushing, there’s a loooong descent off Great Sca Fell near there.

Lowey, give me a shout when you’re thinking of doing your route and i might join you?

bit of carrying involved up Black Sail

Its not a proper Lakes ride without a carry

chew. thats prob the route ive got in mind with a bit added on

bit of carrying involved up Black Sail

Like this:

think we will leave this one for a day ride when were not loaded up!! thanks for the heads up