So.....start at Rosthwaite, warm up to Seatoller, zig zags to Honister, Fleetwith Pike Bridleway to Buttermere, Scarth Gap to Blacksail Hut, Blascksail Pass to Wasdale head for a beer stop at the hotel. Styhead Pass to Angletarn Cumbria way, Stakes pass to Langstrath and back to the van..via the pub...9.5 hours, nearly 6000ft of climbing, and not even 25 miles!!
Heading over from Honister to Fleetwith Pike
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Scarth Gap mechanical and scooby snack stop (hot hot HOT!!)
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Heading down towards Black Sail hostel
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The next two are on the low path up to Sty Head - again it was really sunny and sheltered so it was a hard slog up!
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Sty head complete with golden eagle (not in this pic) flying around how fab!!
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Angletarn...
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Heading round to Langstrath - and the pub for a Gin and Tonic and some olives!!!!!
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Blimey what a day! Great pics
Rocks, hills, sunshine, eagles- looks like you had a fantastic time. I spent the day in Swansea 🙁
So are you riding tommorow Claire after all that? hard core.
Piers
That looks blimin great!Nice one.
Put it this way, the forecast is good for tomorrow night..........see you there?!?! 😀
stunning , hats off
Hope so pass issued and a working proper bike no canties this time
Will be expecting you to do the kielder 100 with all this hardcore riding.
Wonderful pics.
Gutted I've just had to cancel my planned weekend in the Lakes.
Good stuff...........although it was fun hearing your teeth rattling in your head on that loooong descent!!!
Looks brill. I hate you with a passion. 🙂
We blame Gavgas - it was all his idea (he's not just a pretty face) 😀
Hey wool ❗ Did you actually have any brake pads left after THAT descent ❓ 😉
Aaahhhhh, proper mountain biking.
I bumped into Pete L in Buttermere, after he'd [s]wussed out[/s] gone his own way, and got him to turn around, back round the lake, over Honister and down 'the bash' to Grange. Felt a bit smug heading home through Whinlatter and seeing the number of riders following signs round the trails there.
p.s. You sure it was an eagle and not an adventurous buzzard?
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Zoe and Clare
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Pete and Dave
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(Animal!)
It was an exellent day,and very much an epic! Five punctures,one twisted chain,one collapsed hope free hub (it got me back on three bearings and one pawl and spring!) Oh and several crashes....lol, Interestingly everyone was wearing knee pads,was it something I said 🙄
The full trip in the pub tommorrow night stoney!
Did a slightly less hardcore version of this this week, we went straight on at Sty Head though. Such an ace ride...
Looks amazing, nice one - do you have a map/gps of the route?
Cheats!! You missed out Rossett Ghyll and the climb up Stake!
Just joking. Proper Lakes Epic and I'm DEAD jealous.
Funnily enough, I doing that ride in June, but splitting it with a bivvy at Sprinkling tarn but doing Rossett down to Mickleden as well. Hope I get as lucky with the weather as you guys.
Mountain bikes on mountains... 😛 MUST do that myself this year
Hey Ambrose, Swansea on a sunny day isn't so bad. I spent Sunday doing [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/trailguide/uk/wales/the-gower/ ]this.[/url]
Glorious sunshine and barely any wind all the way round.
Hey Boxelder Well done on picking Pete up and re-routing him!!!
I know what you mean about probably being a Buzzard, but no defo an Eagle - although I missed the close-up (gutted) my mate Justin saw it fly very close by!!
wow, great pics and that pint looks good also. dont know wether it makes me want to get out and ride or go down the boozer !! 🙄
WOW that is a big trip!
p.s. You sure it was an eagle and not an adventurous buzzard?
Nah... Justins exellent at bird spotting 😉
How superb is the Black Sail descent? I was wondering whether it was worth going to the alps after that? Just out of interest, how did you guys get from Angle Tarn over to the top of Stake Pass? Is it any good, or just one of those nessecary linking bits of trail?
you guys have got it all wrong, the whinlater red route and the northface trail were all in easy reach??? Whats wrong with you???? 😉
Seriously though, i havent done a trail centre in months. Was a trail centre addict, until i found the joys of natural riding, not to be confused with riding your bike whilst naked, thats another thread altogether
Great stuff. You guys are getting lots of jealous looks from "daarn saarth" 😉
Edit: just checked out the route on MemoryMap....Blimey! 😯
or just one of those nessecary linking bits of trail?
from Angle tarn its a mix of bog and great technical singletrack,It does get better as the gradient gets steeper.
the alternative is to drop into rossett gill,a major undertaking and probably the hardest, steepest Bridleway in the lakes!,and then to climb up the cumbria way into langstrath.
Due to valuable pub time,and my mechanical problems (Langstrath inn) we took an alernative track/path from Angle tarn along the ridge and exellent decent onto the top of Stakes pass. 😉
muddy@rseguy
Its about time you joined us for your yearly fix!...when are you coming up?
Outstanding! Lovely pics too.
Hi Gavgas, I might be up late spring early summer to ride some [i]proper[/i] hills 🙂 hope to see you guys soon
ace i will give you your gloves back from two years ago! 🙄
there just about dry!
yetiguy
Seriously though, i havent done a trail centre in months. Was a trail centre addict, until i found the joys of natural riding,
I was discussing this with Michael Bonney from Orange bikes,there is a real culture swing of mouintain bikers from natural stuff to trail centres,theres nothing wrong with that, but if you can read and understand a map theres a whole different world out there just waiting to be discovered,and thats where mountainbiking,and Orange bikes started,and evolved from. 😉
which trail did you take from Angle Tarn - [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=324770&Y=507840&A=Y&Z=120 ]the black track or the, ahem, cheeky alternative[/url]?
I think it was the black track, ir_bandito,its fairly easy to follow although i suspect the path higher up or even following the ridge line could be less prone to bog although it will have had less wear,and maybee just grass.
I would be interested to know if there is a better path higher up