Evening, after some route advice please...
I hear the Esk Hause descent is amazing, therefore....What is the most ridable/least brutal way up to the Esk Hause from the north?
I am staying in Keswick and will probably park at Seatoller and head clockwise so i can ride Esk hause and sty head pass back to seatoller.
Option 1
Thinking of heading down Langstrath and then either up the BW to stake pass and then SW across the ridge to the top of Rossett Pike, then down the angle tarn and over to esk hause.
There looks to be a faint path over, or just north/below the ridge is this ridable?
Option 2
I was wondering about taking the FB @ NY 26363 09994 and heading straight to angle tarn instead. Rode down this about 10 years ago in the snow so can't really picture how it would be going up.
@thegeneralist went this way i think on this thread - https://singletrackworld.com/forum/bike-forum/2-questions/
Would this be better?
Any wisdom would be grateful received:)
Deleted the crap I wrote when I looked at the second paragraph of what you wrote.
Apologies for my sloppy description:
Langstrath
Angle Tarn
Ore Gap
Bowfell with a little diversion to look at the little slab
Esk Pike
Great End
I did in fact mean
Langstrath
stake pass summit
Angle Tarn
Ore Gap
Bowfell with a little diversion to look at the little slab
Esk Pike
Great End
So basically what you put as option 1.
PS i couldn't get your grid reference to work
The other option I tried was slogging up Grains Gill, but it wasn't great. Nearly all HaB, and liable to be many more ramblers moaning at you fur being on a FP. Also by the time we got to the Gill/BW intersection I was too knackered to turn left to the Hause and just ended up scurrying off rightwards towards Styhead. ( We did it as a Bash extension)
PPS. Can you persuade yourself to go to the full summit of Great End and report back... I've always meant to try this but old age and decrepitude seem to have taken their toll.
haha. Super thanks.
Not sure why the GR does not work...
When I say doesn't work, what I mean is I can't work it. I always thought GRs were 6 digits ( or 8 with 2 lettes) rather than 8 (10)
Anyway, the Strava should show where I went
: https://strava.app.link/VXH0424nx1b
Would you recommend Esk Pike?
Would you recommend Esk Pike?
In all honesty, no. The descent back to the Hause was better than I thought it would be going up it, but still not great.
Iirc looking across at Great End looked a lot betterer, hence my suggestion above.
The only reason I pissed about on Esk Pike and Bowfell is because I wanted to see if I could ride up the Great Slab.
great pics!!
Thought that may be the case. ta.
Option 1 is pretty poor all in, but doesn't have anything really arduous - Langstrath is just frustrating as it looks like it should be rideable, but it's very intermittent off-on. Stake pass ascent is actually fine, decent path so it's an ok push up, but then the traverse path to angle tarn is faint / nonexistent / not rideable - tussocky grass. There's yet another carry / push up to Esk Hause on a good path. Took me 2hr 45 min to here from Borrowdale YH.
Would have thought option 2 straight up Grains Gill would be quite a bit quicker even if it was a hard carry as the Generalist is saying.
Worth doing once, imho, as Styhead descent is excellent and it's such a beautiful part of the UK. Not twice, for me, but some folk just love the Lakes and aren't bothered by hike a bike.