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…

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.

Nan Beild

Warnscale

Ciaran Pass/Devil’s Staircase

Torridon

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.
Pussy.

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…

Pearl Pass Colorado by John Clinch, on Flickr

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!.

http://mpora.com/videos/7mMvqYrih

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?

Pass storming ?

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.

😛

Chipping-in with one a few miles north of Torridon

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

some more pass storming

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!

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 🙂

Col Anterne, approaching Chamonix on a trans-Alp ride.

Near Col Fromage, same trip a few days later.

Not really storming, more trudging past Stob Ban:

Ben Nevis Loop

Another day, another carry