Viewing 8 posts - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)
  • Devoke Water and Birkby Fell anyone been?
  • ChatsworthMusters
    Free Member

    I'm looking at a route that goes from Devoke Water to the north of Birkby Fell to Barnscar. There is a bridleway shown on the map, but I just get a feeling in my water that it will be a bit unpleasant over there. Has anyone here been on that track? Does it exist, and if so is it rideable?

    simonfbarnes
    Free Member

    Yes it's there. Starting from Dyke (the way we usually do it) it's a wide farm track, then a walled lane much subject to cattle trod when wet, then a very rutted boggy field where the original BW has been abandoned as it's over a peat layer above a sunken lake so you take a squelchy FP instead. Once across that it's grassy through thick bracken for a km or so, becoming rockier as you near the lake, but with very boggy spots where tributaries flow in along the shore. Just by the little stone house the ground has a strange hollow sound, and then you meet a gravel track to the road.

    mt
    Free Member

    It's a good place with great views of the fells and the sea. Not done it for a while and recall it being a bit wet. Look out for the iron age village remains just past the lake.

    Fresh Goods Friday 696: The Middling Edition

    Fresh Goods Friday 696: The Middlin...
    Latest Singletrack Videos
    simonfbarnes
    Free Member

    shore track:

    Devoke:

    Birkby Fell:

    detail:

    the drier way:

    ChatsworthMusters
    Free Member

    SFB, is one of you routes/gpx thingies available?

    simonfbarnes
    Free Member

    SFB, is one of you routes/gpx thingies available?

    I don't think so, as I've not been there for yonks! I'd advise against going over Waberthwaite Fell, which is fairly ghastly up and down. There's a nice BW from Muncaster Head, with the additional bonus of riding across a golf course 🙂 [or an interesting FP on the fell above]

    ChatsworthMusters
    Free Member

    Route goes from High Eskholme, over Muncaster Fell. That looks cheeky. Presume that's what you mean.

    simonfbarnes
    Free Member

    That looks cheeky.

    it's up to you, there's also a bridleway running along the valley if you prefer 🙂

Viewing 8 posts - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)

The topic ‘Devoke Water and Birkby Fell anyone been?’ is closed to new replies.