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Can anyone offer any experience of riding [url= http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?lnk=http://sites.google.com/site/twevestonetony/home/gps-routes/Greenup_Edge.gpx ]this[/url] BW (West to East)
Looks like a hike a bike up, but is the descent from Greenup Edge good / ridable?
Trying to make a loop starting and finishing in the Langdale valley and strugling to find a nice way back over from the Borrowdale side.
Stake pass is the classic.
Unrideable, forget it. Not in a sarcastic way either. Ride down from greenup possible except the scramble down the cliffs but getting up easedale would be carry all the way. Not just the valley head but all the way up.
Sorry W-E , gong senile - still crap, do something else. Unless you're a trials god you'll be off the bike more than on. Never been more broken than riding that valley after a big day out, the ride back over Dunmail Raise to the car was done in stony silence!
That descent down from Greenup Edge is a bit of an acquired taste IMO. It's very stop-starty unless you are a riding god and didn't really flow much for me. Bottom section was good. Top bit was quite boggy in places when we did it.
There's better stuff to go at round there IMO.
Edit: sorry I was thinking of the other way too!
There's better stuff to go at round there IMO.
Any pointers that will get me west to east other than Stake pass?
Got the Quote mixed up there 🙂
Not really - I've heard of people using the footpaths over the top - high raise kind of way - but don't know them myself. I'd imagine there'd be a fair bit of carrying.
Stake Pass is the obvious way - not sure about any others sorry.
I did a loop from a mag two years ago, Clockwise route Langdale / Stakes / Greenup / Grasmere. I would advise something else, Im pretty confident on technical stuff and it was alot of pushing over bouldery unpedallable sections after riding down Stakes, Greenup up was scary for me, proper steep portage in places. Down to Grasmere was stop starty with more bouldery bits. Beautiful scenery though.
A decent loop I've done is start Borrowdale bash then Up Stake pass to Angle Tarn push up esk hause then descend to Styhead & Sprinkling tarn down to Stockley bridge back to Seathwaite to pick up the return leg of the Bash down past Castle Crag, Or if the weather is being kind up to Honister & do a right up on to Dale Head & descend to Dale Head Tarn then across to descend through the old mine works to re join just above Castle Crag... Ok the Dale Head part is foot path but the few walkers I meet are surprised & generally good natured to see us up there.
A decent loop I've done is start Borrowdale bash then Up Stake pass to Angle Tarn push up esk hause then descend to Styhead & Sprinkling tarn down to Stockley bridge back to Seathwaite to pick up the return leg of the Bash down past Castle Crag, Or if the weather is being kind up to Honister & do a right up on to Dale Head & descend to Dale Head Tarn then across to descend through the old mine works to re join just above Castle Crag... Ok the Dale Head part is foot path but the few walkers I meet are surprised & generally good natured to see us up there.