what's THE iconic peak district photo?

Bike leaning against bridleway sign on Whinstone Lee Tor, or bike descending rocky slabs on Stanage Edge?

Or something else?

Title made me think wlt.

Stanage I reckon, or the rocky steps down Rushup Edge. Oh wait…. 😥

Saw a good one on here a while back – two riders in pain on a steep climb. Might have been old Chapel gate but not sure. Anyone recall it?
Was in black and white, raining, many rocks. Essence de Peak.

Hora leaving the car park in his car as we all go for the bike ride?

Must feature:
Rocks
Hills
Valleys
Bikes
Riders
Dramatic weather

Maybe something like this, but without the man-made slabs:

No pictures of Cavedale so far though a while ago one of the magazines pictured a guy riding up it… wouldn’t bother with that my self, hard enough getting down Cavedale dab free especially in the wet, it’s like a greased weasel.

Cheers
Mark

LOL at Junkyard.

50 odd Pootlers heading through a gate?

Mam tour looking down on hollins cross for me

The water splash at the bottom of Jaggers Clough.

Cutgate is always a good one before you drop down to ladybower or the Torrs above doing cheeky stuff, last time there we saw the naked rambler middle of nowhere just his boots & rucksack daft sod.

Here you go… Link:

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Stanage,ferns, rocks, rider, optional blue sky …

Or the other way

Jacobs

I’m noticing the utter lack here of smooth flat trails…

Kinder Trespass or the last Pootle Scaredypants?

AlexSimon’s pic is my wallpaper. I’m happy with man-made slabs when they’re gritstone and look like they’ve always been there.

give DCC a couple of years and this’ll be the best we have

You can’t ignore the impact of man on the dark peak, large parts of most gritstone edges are quarried, old millstones are lying around all over the place and the moors themselves wouldn’t be the same without the management for grouse and sheep. So the one posted by AlexSimon above looks good to me (I had it as my desktop for a while too)

Although the title made me think of this

Can’t get a better size but for me the Peak was climbing way before bikes

Is that first climbing one the finger?

A pair of EBs and no helmet – nostalgia!!!!

It’s Steve Bancroft on Strapadictomy at Froggatt, one of the great routes from the 1970s gritstone renaissance

The B&W one is Strapadictomy at Froggatt, classic.

Classic name or classic climb??

Is that a sit harness or just a belt?

Then the Sloth at the Roaches I reckon. I once managed a miserable second on that. Back in the days of EBs and no helmets. And certainly no friends to protect the crux.

These days, you only need to climb VS to get up an ‘iconic’ Peak photo.

Sloth is fun. Was fun to lead, but almost scarier as a second I would have thought if you were to fall off after removing the sling on the pedestal.

The Sloth? Sure that’s not Paralogism?

The trick is not to fall off after removing the sling…

The guide book cover is one of the mental ones in the same roof as the sloth I think.

The trick is not to fall off after removing the sling…

The trick is never to fall off. 🙂

That does indeed look like one of the harder ones rather than Sloth. Wondered why he was cutting loose…

Yep, I could see after posting that it wasn’t the sloth that the climber was on. However, the sloth is pretty clearly there, in the picture, so comments stand 🙂

I spent 4 years in Keele Uni but never got to love Gritstone, having grown up with Wye/Avon Valley Limestone (back before it became too polished to climb)

Is that a sit harness or just a belt?

Looks like a Whillans harness. Rolled up jeans too eh? Those were the days.

Junkyard I went off with stw’er skiprats group that were riding a route that didnt involve exposed moorland in hurricane winds 😉

I was expecting to see a good old Whillans (buckled up correctly of course) but thought leg loops should be more obvious.

You defo dont want to fall off that with a Whillans otherwise you’ll end up with a small swelling behind each ear (which is where each testicle will have relocated to).

It was never much fun swinging around on a hawser laid roped tied directly around the waist.