even tho i have been 5 times, i really can’t remember, does whinlatter north side have much climbing?

Quite a bit at the start for a 10?km loop, though if you skip out the 2nd and 3rd sections (both uphill) and stick on the fireroad (as it was when it first opened) it doesn’t take all that long to get 90/95% of the climbing out the way

EDIT: Just looked at the OS map. (If I’ve not looked at it wrong), its about a 200m climb to start, I thought it woul’ve been more than that tbh

About the same as the amount of descending unless they’ve changed the laws of physics.

It’s quite a sustained climb but doesn’t take long and is a nice gradient.

You do seem to get a lot of descent for it.

To the OP – 🙄

i missed the word ‘steep’ out of my question.

if you stick to the b/w, does it take you up to the left turn onto singletrack, where there is always a bottleneck on the enduro?

Yes, carry on up the fire road, bare right where you can and you get to the next bit of single track. Its a good climb though and a good descent. I like it.

You will need to carry an extra battery!