Another bike day - yay.....
The weather forecast for the shortest day of the year (the hump!) was pretty wild, but if the BBC were to believed then it looked like an okay window between 10am - 3pm! I nearly aborted on the drive over when at 10 am the skies blackened and apocalyptic weather suddenly appeared. It went incredibly dark and the heavy rain and flooded roads made me start to think about Noah, and then tsunami's!!
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| Planning, unloading, sun on Coniston Fells and don't land hot air balloons here! |
Luckily I kept faith and just as I met Steve at Grizedale the skies started to clear and the sun even broke free sending amazing light onto the Coniston Fells.
I love Grizedale, it's just so unique for England. We basically warmed up on some fire roads (no idea where), jumping onto sections of the 'North Face' trail when they appeared. The North Face trail isn't that great, but if you link up parts of it with fire road, bridle ways and other tracks in the area then its awesome.
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| Trolls live under this bridge! |
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| Lush forest, fast trails |
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| Could easily be BC (watch for bears!) |
After the warm up we headed on a great loop getting deeper and deeper into the forest before popping out at Satterthwaite and crossing over into the Eastern forest. Again brilliant single track lead us on a blinding descent towards Esthwaite Water (recently sold on ebay I believe!).
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| Home again, time to dry the feet and drink tea.... |
With very wet feet/legs we had one final section to do, passing Foxy (Steve loved Foxy!), before finally arriving back at the cars, tired but grinning. What a great ride, no rain and we didn't see another biker all day!
So breathtakingly beautiful. Thanks for the lovely pictures of the woods.
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