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Recommendations please with the caveat, i love new summits and have ridden most of the classics, really running out of ideas.
There's a couple in MBUKs latest ride guide... Coniston and Seatoller.
Coniston
Up Walna Scar to the col
Over Dow Crag
Across to the Old Man
Then north to Swirl How
Great Carrs
Little Carrs
Wet side edge
East down the ridge into little langdale.
garburn, yoke, ill bell, high street, mardale ill bell, nan bield, harter fell, gatesgarth, green quarter, high borrans.
grange, borrowdale bash, honister, dale head, high spy, maiden moor, hause gate.
buttermere, sour milk gill, red pike, high stile, high cragg, haystacks, warnscale.
1. Pick an area you like (not the Central Fells - too rocky)
2. Have a look for wee black dotted lines on the map (not ROW FP or BW) that might join up or take you near some of your faves. Ridge lines are a good source.
3. Have a look on Google Earth / Bing Maps to see if there's anything 'on the ground'
4. Create a route with a bit of old and new
Did Nan Bield recently, which was ace - started by climbing Gatescarth Pass. That may be a bit 'obvious' to you, I dunno. We had a dip in Small Water halfway round too.
Be handy if people could stick these up on komoot? Or add GPX files even better🙏
Contraire Nan bield really is a must do and one to go back to, no type two fun, just pure joy.
Ton Red pike to Haystacks, massive hike for not a lot of return?
The Generalist the south Lakes are one of the areas, i need to get to more, Wet side edge was in a video recently looked a bit meh? there is a great loop to be had connecting up the main group of peaks thanks.
in jeremy ashcroft's mtb guide book from the 80's the red pike route is the 'feasible limit of mountainbiking in the uk'.
it was, i carried a muddyfox up, across and most of the down......... ;o)
Haha sounds about right old school, carry your shit bicycle for miles!
A short one: Braithwaite, Grassmoor, back to Coledale House, Sand Hill, (Whiteside and back if you fancy - some surprisingly ridable sections. Some heart in mouth and lot not very ridable by me), Grizedale Pike, and the well known blast back to Braithwaite.
South lakes type 1 fun: on the BW from Coniston, Torver, Stephenson's ground, dunnderdale and then over to boot is sheer joy... Type 1 Fun.
You could figure a route around that?
Grasmoor is an interesting one, after initially thinking Lad howes would be a goer, walked it and thought nah sections at the top were just not rideable way beyond my paygrade, have been thinking of just riding the easy ridge line down to coldale hause for the tick, just need to get round to it.
Stephenson ground the BW north really does look like classic Lakes techy flow, somebody posted a video of this last week, great suggestions.
How's this.
Up Rossett Gill, up nd over Allen crags on to glaramara ( awesome tech)
On to seatoller
Up stake pass and then up to pike of stickle stay right and head down from loft crag.
Keep this one 🤫
Grasmoor is an interesting one, after initially thinking Lad howes would be a goer, walked it and thought nah sections at the top were just not rideable way beyond my paygrade
Lad Howes looks a bit steep... The route I posted - a there and back from coledale hause - involves a short push up the steep bit, but otherwise is 100% quick stony singletrack on grassmoor itself plus usual wide lakes path. Rides nicely on the way down. Descent from Grizedale Pike is a full on classic.
Did this ride the day after mega rain. Biggest challenge was crossing Coledale beck, walkers were turning back. Managed to chuck my bike mainly over up towards the crag, giving me an incentive to follow...