Please talk to me about your favourite trail that threads it's way through the mountains by way of high passes, photo's would be grand, I guess mine would be the tour of Gable, although I eagerly await the spring and a shot at the Torridon corrie Lair circuit, this will be hard to beat i'm sure.
Hardly 'pass storming'!, but I liked this image from conic hill.
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Ullock pike
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And I won a camelbak from MBR for this one!
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I like this one too...
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Dunno why that last ones not working...
Aye, the torridon classic is very hard to beat. Both big descents, coire lair and the bealach na lice down to annat are crackers, but I think it's just the feeling of being made to feel small and insignificant in between all those behemoths of rock that makes it special.
Wow that last shot is stunning, Ullock pike has to be one of the best alpine like descents imaginable, must do it again.
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Good work, very nice indeed munrobiker, pining for the fjords now!
Warnscale WILL bring a smile to your face. Guaranteed.
Warnscale looks the ticket! Nan bield in plans for this year, 4 passes ride looks a cracker.
Warnscale is that the introduction to the four passes?, got the tee shirt I think, certainly didn't ride the lot though, some serious sphincter action on the way down.
Nan Bield is a corker, but must do it in reverse, after watching some vid of a couple of riding gods in full flow, some proper features to tackle.
Warnscale is ok but there's better up there...if your wanting very technical you will be slightly disappointed with warnscale as it simply isn't! if you want something that's fast and slightly technical in places then maybe you will enjoy.
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When I say pass, you say Storm.
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eh! how do you ride fast over massive boulders, pretty technical at the top though.
edit Warnscale.
Warnscale is fast rather than balls-out technical I'd say. The next one around the head of that valley has got some tougher bits and Nan Beild south to north is harder again- it's well good.
DavidM fantastic shots, really capturing the essence of riding up high in the Lakes, like a distant memory.
everyone is going downhill?
My wife on Pearl Paas. I'm not sure it was her favourite day with a bike...
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Cheers Fergal. Got a bit carried away there
If we are talking about the same thing, would you say Ullock pike is non technical, as warnscale was harder imho. maybe not pure technicality but the size of the loose rocks!.
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nan bield is pretty good, check this out from a few years back.. 🙂
DavidM
where is that second shot? think i get guess most but not that one?
[url= http://www.bikeit.eclipse.co.uk/cyclingprelycra/touring/passes.htm ]Pass storming ?[/url]
That second shot has Pillar behind, so I'm guessing somewhere on Haystacks?
Got it, not Pillar
Western fells begins with a H 😉
Nick. You appear to be scoping out the right part of the map, yes.
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Chipping-in with one a few miles north of Torridon
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As covered here, a while ago… http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/loch-maree-bealach-mheinnidh-fionn-loch-pic-heavy (my URL tab no workee)
Might as well stick in the Annat descent too, modelled by 13thFloorMonk
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some more pass storming
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This thread really makes me want to ride!
EDIT: I could even justify a dropper post for some of those routes 😀
Oxymoron - too right, this has got me well excited
Freeridenick - need Location of all those pics now! ( please)
Whiteless Pike down to Rannerdale Knotts - mmmmm!
Rossett Pike down to Seatoller - double mmmmmmm!
High Street down to Angle tarn.
Fairfield Horseshoe in the snow - outstanding.
The switchbacks off of Castle Crag - tough but look amazing in pics.
Doups - steep and steep!
Curiously, all in the Lakes and all cheeky!
High Street down to Angle tarn.
High Street down Rough Crag to Haweswater- mmmmm!
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Thanks for all the great pictures folks. Another few inches of snow fell overnight here in Aberdeenshire, which means another few feet in the mountains and that means another few weeks at least before it could be clear. It's nice to be reminded that it will clear one day though and that there are some great rides out there to look forward to.
Cheers.
This is a great thread!
Great pics, but it's making me depressed that I'm not in the Lakes anymore and that I've got a house to renovate this year so I won't be getting much fun in. 🙁
I used to have a Rough-Stuff Fellowship magazine with a reproduction of an article from the 50s or 60s. It detailed the journey of a chap who did something like 10-15 of the major Lake District passes in a single weekend (or was it 24 hour period?) riding a fixie. He also rode to and from the lakes from Lancaster or further and was back at work on the Monday morning.
They don't make 'em like that any more. Would be interesting to see if his record could be beaten on a modern mountain bike.
Taking bikes up mountains - it'll never catch on!
Good pics, keep 'em coming. This is the sort of stuff that gets me out of bed on a weekend and makes the odd thousand metres of hike-a-bike seem worthwhile 🙂
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Not really storming, more trudging past Stob Ban:
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Great pics, but it's making me depressed that I'm not in the Lakes anymore
Guess what we're doing this evening 😀
Col du Burton Dasset, Warwickshire
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Saturdays 'adventure' on high street -
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Looking north -
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Some random others -
Goatfell, Arran
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Yours truly on Ben Vorlich
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Mega on the Merrick
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Coming off Benyellary
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Lairig an Laoigh:
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Excellent photos peeps. Inspiring. I need to broaden my horizons.
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Ben Lawers last March........... 😀
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Fett!
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Me with a map!
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The second lot of pics are on Blencathra. 😀
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Somewhere in the Lakes on a narrow piece of singletrack..... 😉
That last one is a superb piece of trail. We were hoping to do it this weekend but the snow said no.
Aye, the weather wasn't the best for high up adventures. I didn't fancy the High Street stuff in the absence of a good avalanche report.
I still need to ride the 4 passes. All we need is a little bit of Spring weather!
Nick - seen as you owe me a trail ;0 is that langdale at the top of your first pic? and where oh where is that final one? Completely stumped...
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This thread is rapidly becoming my route guide for this year!
I did the four passes a few years ago but I need to go back, and some of these are new to me and I'm getting the urge to ride them!
The pictures they don't show you!
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Ain't a proper day in the mountains if you don't have the bike up on your shoulder at some point! 😀
Yet we keep on doing it!
parkedtiger, it's going to snow. Snow lots, you'll be stuck in your carpark and I've already been out today. That's what I'm telling myself anyway.
Are you riding at the weekend, I'll be up.
David
yep top one is Rossett Ghyll into Langdale.
last one is on B, which is next to S 🙄
Bonus Pass storming
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Ace thread, need to tick off some more of these.
Right. Where's the third pic taken then Nik?
Sanny - watcha old chap.
its on Cadair Idris, North Wales..
I like being here.
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Coming down the route we are looking up to is very good 😀
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The hike up to the bealach on the "alternative" Torridon route I would think this ticks the pass storming box! Was a proper ride put together from a previous trip a path in the distance an OS map and a strong urge to return!
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One day I will get to Torridon.
Chamonix is closer to me though!
Awesome pics guys!
A proper two to those that set that say the UK is flat and boring... 🙂
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A great thread of photos. Inspiring for if I ever shift this cold....
Brilliant pics .. I need to get up some big hills again, been years since I did anything like this in the UK.
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Liking the subtle point Sniff 😉
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Going to have to join in here:
Pics from PMJ of our attempt at the Cairngorms tour:
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And some of mine, mainly in the Lakes:
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Really inspirational stuff in this thread. Some amazing pics too.
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[i]paulrockliffe - Member parkedtiger, it's going to snow. Snow lots, you'll be stuck in your carpark and I've already been out today. That's what I'm telling myself anyway. Are you riding at the weekend, I'll be up.[/i]
Hi Paul - the snow only added to the fun coming off Whiteless on Saturday. Lots of slippyness on Walla and Catbells last night though 😀
Not sure if I'm out at the weekend yet - will Skype you if I hear of any rides though.