[Closed] Hardest Trail you have ever ridden

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Thanks Jon Taylor, we went out to Switchbacks in around 2006 and rode that trail, I remember it but I dont know if it had an official name then. I seem to remember the usual Switchbacks beers and pizza on the other side of the valley after we got to the bottom. Good times.

You've also helped me remember the complete @rse on a Intense that was with us, American, kept doing that bullhorn hand salute things that they do whenever the cameras on him. He was sh 1 te, couldnt ride for toffee. Fat too. Jeez. Still good times though.

Lemmings looks interesting, can't figure out if I've ridden it, the pitched bottom section looks like one we did but I don't rememeber the top loose section, mind you it was a few years ago.

the flying circus - fromme vancouver

I think Lemmings is known by Ciclo Montana as "Tourettes".

Hardest trail I've done is the one form stonethwaite fell to the bottom of stake pass (not a downhill), bloody awful, absolute nightmare. Infact it's bloody awful all the way to sprinkling tarn, the downhill is worth it tho (which tells you just how good it is to make you forget the preceding 3hour sufferfest) The most downiest downhill ever.

a bikevillage 'savage wednesday' (staff ride) - a certain spineology about 40 mins drive from there.

if you think la varda/sketchy dismount was exposed, try having the same exposure on [i]both[/i] sides.

i shat myself, and walked a large proportion of it.

sam didn't (he's in there somewhere!)

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DONK, it's Langstrath that you write about. Ditto, don't know why I thought that was a good idea! Up Rossett Gill (2 dabs from the very top? Trials skills?) down to Stockley Bridge then back over Stake. Some of the poor chaps I was showing around wanted me dead on the climb out of Langstrath.

Laggan Black route for me. Done it twice and I think cleaned 40-50% at most (and that may be a generous estimate). Compared with the likes of Innerleithen and GT black which I can ride 99% of no problem it was an eye opener.

For physical toughness the climb up Glen Finglas clockwise had me beat once you see the trail zig-zagging away in front of you

Would like to try Laggan again now i'm fitter

For physical toughness the climb up Glen Finglas clockwise had me beat once you see the trail zig-zagging away in front of you

That's a soul destroying climb. I was off and pushing after the last cattle grid.

Hardest trail I've done is the one form stonethwaite fell to the bottom of stake pass (not a downhill), bloody awful, absolute nightmare.

Paul yep langstrath, might have been you who directed me there actually 🙂 the guy I was with was not impressed and disagrees that the down was worth it. I shall have to find a fresh victim for when I return this summer, but I have another route up planned. Well not so much a route, more just "the other side of the river"
EDIT parkedtiger no the left GRRRR. Will be trying the right next time 🙂

Noooo the trail on the left as you look up the valley is great from half way down, before that you go up the rightside and cut over at the obvious crossing. Love slow techy stuff, its like the fp to watendlath, trying not to dab makes it a interesting challenge. It can be wet up there so its best in the summer mind. Up Stake is a ball-ache I'll give you that!!

Part of the NPS course in Rostrevor, Co Down, NI. Ended up on my arse after about 50 yards, freewheeled the rest, crying inside my helmet.

Must go back and give it another go sometime 😀

wtf anc! It's horrific, I remember it being 10m of pedalling through energy sapping grass and/or bog, followed by 5m of pushing through an unrideable section, then repeating the process for miles and miles to to the bottom of a cliff. Then going up the cliff. I say again WTF!

box hill zig zag road

Paul... you was on the wrong bit then!!! Its all rideable to the foot of stakes. Its techy, but mainly rocky, step-up, step down, with the occational grassy bit(which is why its better in summer). Judging by the riding you do well within your capabilities, so I think you must have hit the wrong path.

Mr Cousins is a fan too 😉

Max - Member
Don't completely write off the bridleway on the right hand side of the river as you go down Langstrath - it's a great challenge and well worth a look, just of a different character to the track on the left.

clown shoes in whistler. The only mtb trail I have properly lost my nerve on

I think Lemmings is known by Ciclo Montana as "Tourettes".

Ahh....tourettes.
Smart.

 

P.S Max is talking about heading down Langstrath in that quote so his right is my Left up the Langstrath valley... Great trail. 😉

Got to be Goats Gully in Whistler, always pleased to make it out of there!

Stake Pass side of the river anc? That's where we were.

I'm just going to say a random name in an exotic location and watch everyone nod and stroke their chin. 😉

Stake Pass side of the river anc? That's where we were.

Yep thats it. You do the first half on the right side under White crag then the second bit on the left under Blea crag(stake side). Cracking 😉

On a Side note there's a hidden bivvi cave in Cam crag, worth a look it your into that sort of thing.

baileybailey - Member
Got to be Goats Gully in Whistler, always pleased to make it out of there!

you found that harder than Clownshoes? Not saying its easy (its not by a long shot) but I found Clownshoes another level compared to goats gully. Suppose its just different strokes for different folks

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OK after a dry spell it may be a LOT easier to ride and more fun but when I did it (last summer)....yuk!

I'm with Donk, but now I feel pathetic, so will have to go for another go. Easter?

What you've done is go up the bridleway all the way. The first half is cr@p and sapping. If you take the fp up the right side of the valley half way that's totally rideable. Then you cross onto the bridleway on The left of the valley directly below Cam crag(kink in river) the bridleway is excellent from there on, a great challenge and totally doable. Think I managed to get to the foot of stake with a couple of dabs.. 😉

clown shoes- schleyer are my faves at whistler when i went. i prefer the rest of bc for riding 🙂

If you take the fp up the right side of the valley half way that's totally rideable. Then you cross onto the bridleway

...it's much more fun that side, and you just cross the beck when you get to the bridge. Another 100 metres and you're at the foot of the pass.

We crossed over somewhere around Smithymire Island, should we have cross further up, Blackmoss Pot perhaps?

I think there was an element of being absolutely bolloxed about it as well, it had been a tough day to get there.

Have you ridden up Greenup Gill or turned right at the bottom of Stockley Bridge descent to get back up to Angle Tarn?

Paul you'll not be doing much riding up either of them Greenup edge is mainly a carry With bits of riding Grains gill will be rideable for a few hundred metres then a carry all the way to sprinkling, rest is rideable.

Just checked the map its the bridleway from smithy to the bridge, the cross to the rightside at Johnny House. Up the valLey to Blackmoss Pot then cross there to the leftside then the last 1km to the foot of the pass great little section and totally doable.