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Starting to plan a weekend trip to the Peaks to most likely do that Peak District MTB All Weather Circuit, which includes the re-opened Rushup climb. Now the last reporting I can find was of when it last reopened 18 months ago, so how have the "repairs" aged?
I assume you're doing it as a desent.. its not what it was by any stretch but its not totally flattened.
I've not been that way for a few months and we've had some really heavy rain in the last month so I don't know what effect that had.
There is work going on by Network rail on one of the tunnel shafts on the moor. In their infinite wisdom they flattened the bridleway to get plant in from the bottom of Rushop edge towards Roych Clough. I don't know haw far it goes, i've not seen it but suspect it only goes to the first corner and by all accounts the storms of the last few weeks made a bit of a mess of what they did..
how far are you traveling? it's still a good ride, just not quite as good.
There is work going on by Network rail on one of the tunnel shafts on the moor. In their infinite wisdom they flattened the bridleway to get plant in from the bottom of Rushop edge towards Roych Clough. I don’t know haw far it goes, i’ve not seen it but suspect it only goes to the first corner and by all accounts the storms of the last few weeks made a bit of a mess of what they did..
It looks like this:
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Already some ruts in the gravel where rain has washed it away. That's going into / coming out of* Roych Clough, image taken from the road junction at the western end of Rushup, looking north.
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*depending on if you're riding the route clockwise or anti-clockwise.
Rushup itself is OK, the rubble they dumped on it a few years ago got largely removed - bits and pieces have been done to it since and every time it rains stuff gets washed along it but a lot of the bedrock is visible again now.
There is still descent worth doing. The flattening fires a bit past the photo above but it turns off after a while in there is still a decent descent down to the ford/bridge. That was the situation last weekend.
Roych has been flattened as far as the last gate before the steeper Rocky section. The Rushup sunken track is worth a ride up or down but I tend to stick to the single track path right next to it. Even the horses prefer that to the main rocky track.