[Closed] Claife and Grizedale snowy ride!

Lovely!

Be doing a very similar route on the 17th-just hope it stays frosty!

I like Lisa's shorts 🙂

yes, that pic has done the rounds with 'our clique' 😛

allthepies - Member
I like Lisa's shorts

haha thanks [b]allthepies[/b] 🙂

that's been the most beautiful ride I've done so far - just amazing

Lisa tells me those shorts keep her bits nice and warm too 🙂

bits!! Fixed that for you:

Lisa tells me those shorts keep her [s]bits[/s] nice and warm too

well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out which parts are kept warm by those skimpy shorts :o)

+1 Lisas shorts.

I can just see Scruff in a pair... 😯

oh, and quick question Simon. After climbing Breasty Haw, is the Devils gallop descent a MUCH better option than the bridleway across past Grizedale Tarn and the fox descent if we are heading over towards Claife?

ta.

snakebite: IMO YES!!
my favourite bit:
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a lot of it is singletrack with plenty to keep you happy - however Fox Road is a faster downhill...

however, if you do decide to take Fox Road, get in touch with me and I'll show you some extra singletrack sections instead of the fire road to get there

The BW from Breasty Haw via the road and then Devils Gallop is just brilliant!! The Fox road is nothing in comparison.

Rode it the other Sunday. Superb!

Am guessing that the highest rocky peak is Scafell Pike and the one to the left in Scafell? Good pics as ever BTW.
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Am guessing that the highest rocky peak is Scafell Pike and the one to the left in Scafell?

sorry no, Lowey has identified them as Crinkle Crags. Scafell is over the far side of Coniston!

Agree with Lowey. Second from left is Long Top the highest Crinkle

the edge of the trees near the bottom comes down to Knipe Fold, and on the big panorama you can see the byway heading off to Iron Keld...

Simon - great shots as ever, couple of observations:

It's be a fine line you tread between being the official group photographer and the offical group letch 😆 So far I think you're definitely on the ride side, but it would only take one slightly miss judged camera angle and it could all go lisa, I mean pear shape!

I love the fact (well I mean I think it's funny, obviously I don't 'love' it in that way) that you're wearing shorts in THAT weather (oh and the wet arse photo (pressume it's you) is class!

The subsequent photo of the rocky corner in the wet but not the snow, where is that? I am almost sure I was shown that descent by a guy called Nick who used to run the bike hire at Ambleside YHA. This was going back to 2005 (the sames holiday as it happens that I met my wife in the same YHA, but that's a whole other story). I remember him saying that the descent was really fast but had a really tricky right hander over rocks and through a dry stone wall. The ride we did was all on the 'secret tracks' that criss cross the area between Claife and Grizedale. Is that roughly where it is?

Lisa's shorts are nice, but i must say the rest of her is up to their standard*

*trying not to letch, more appriciate in a warm blooded male way, from afar

I REALLY MUST come out with Sfb and John etc. Im going to bloody staple myself to them.

Your rides look great- never a sulken face in shot and the scenery etc looks great.

Hora - You have said that before... (Many times!!) 😉

Geetee1972 - Im pretty sure Lisa takes it all in good spirits - just like I did when she was trying to look up my shorts when I was stood on the fox 😀

It's a service that SfB and the Boggies provide 😀

Im pretty sure Lisa takes it all in good spirits

I'm sure she does, all that male attention... 😀 It would be hard for any girl to resist (not speaking personally of course).

One day I shall ride with the Rivington Yeti

Geetee, yes thats the one, but its not secret. Its a BW.

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Lowey - the secret tracks were elsewhere. This chap showed me a mixture of the two and some of them had clearly been 'dug' recently. But as I said, this was going back to 2005.

SO which way do you ride that track to have the descent part going through that gate? I presume it's east to west.

Marin_Maketh_The_Man - Member

Geetee1972 - Im pretty sure Lisa takes it all in good spirits - just like I did when she was trying to look up my shorts when I was stood on the fox

haha, yes, all good fun, sorry MMTM, I wasn't perving, just making sure the view was 'safe'

Bit 😕 about the pear-shape !!! <no more pies for a while>

I'm looking forward to our weekend up there in the snow as much as normal people look forward to their 2 weeks in Torremolinos. Roll on the 17th! Especially as I've just got back from a crunchy snowy singlespeed pre-work ride round Stafford Castle.

(It might have something to do with us drinking as much in 3 days in the lakes as most people drink in 2 weeks on Costa Del Sol)

geetee, No mate, its West to east.

Start in Satterthwaite, climb Breasty Haw and descend to the road, the up through the Slack Woods to Devils Gallop.

Superb Trail.

Well said Big John!