A remix & tweak of the first ever Sunday ride, nice & dry.
Ride Date: 17/05/2015
Distance: 21.5 miles
Climbing: 2600ft
Route: Miller's Dale > Cheedale > Wormhill > Priestcliffe > Monsall
Riders : Jake & Matt
Loads missing for this one, reasons too numerous to mention, a production Saturday didn't help either.
We went for an 8am start, seeing as these nice light mornings are too good to miss, plus we can have the trails to ourselves, after a short wait for Carro, only to find he had overlay & wasn't going to make it we set off for a short 1km warm up on the Monsall trail followed by the stiff, rocky climb up to the hamlet of King Sterndale and across a couple of fields to the first short, but fun descent into Horseshoe Dale then the satisfying steady climb weaving around the rocks up to the road. A short section of tarmac took us through Chelmorton and the steep climb at the back of the church, along the undulating single track and the fast blast down the Pennine Bridleway to the A6, another short section of road and it was the steep, fast descent into Wye Dale as we had previously done on the first ride.
We took a quick break and headed up the switchbacks (scene of Basil's chain snap on a previous ride) through many sheep and up to the farm where the famous "Tractor Photo" was taken last time.A bit more road was followed by some trail & fields, this time bone dry and into Wormhill. Straight across the road and on to the good stuff, starting off with single track between dry stone walls, then switching to tree lined, then on to rocky craziness, we were only stopped by a gate and a puncture on Matt's rear wheel.
Not even stopping for a breather we were of again, with the steep but short climb up the the solitary farm house at the start of the Limestone Way & and our route back down to Miller's Dale, another great and long descent, ruined a bit by the amount of gates. Again pushing on well at this point, we headed out of the valley and up a tough off road climb and following the farm tracks out to Priestcliffe, meeting some very courteous Quad riders & some not so courteous Motocross riders, not much of interest trail wise, but the views were nice and with a short stop for tyre pressure adjustments we soon hit Brushfield, from here you get a small up then it's all down, getting steeper & rockier as you drop onto the Monsall viaduct.
All that was left was a nice 2 mile warm down along Monsall Trail back to Miller's Dale.
After packing the bikes up, we had a steady walk to the Angler's Rest and Farmer's Blonde all round, well you can't turn it down can you?
Not a bad ride all in, helped with the dry conditions, it's a good example of what the White Peak offers, and apart from a very minor tweak we can make before the steep drop into Wye dale, it's probably the finished article and a ride we'll likely add each year.
Distance: 21.5 miles
Climbing: 2600ft
Route: Miller's Dale > Cheedale > Wormhill > Priestcliffe > Monsall
Riders : Jake & Matt
Loads missing for this one, reasons too numerous to mention, a production Saturday didn't help either.
We went for an 8am start, seeing as these nice light mornings are too good to miss, plus we can have the trails to ourselves, after a short wait for Carro, only to find he had overlay & wasn't going to make it we set off for a short 1km warm up on the Monsall trail followed by the stiff, rocky climb up to the hamlet of King Sterndale and across a couple of fields to the first short, but fun descent into Horseshoe Dale then the satisfying steady climb weaving around the rocks up to the road. A short section of tarmac took us through Chelmorton and the steep climb at the back of the church, along the undulating single track and the fast blast down the Pennine Bridleway to the A6, another short section of road and it was the steep, fast descent into Wye Dale as we had previously done on the first ride.
We took a quick break and headed up the switchbacks (scene of Basil's chain snap on a previous ride) through many sheep and up to the farm where the famous "Tractor Photo" was taken last time.A bit more road was followed by some trail & fields, this time bone dry and into Wormhill. Straight across the road and on to the good stuff, starting off with single track between dry stone walls, then switching to tree lined, then on to rocky craziness, we were only stopped by a gate and a puncture on Matt's rear wheel.
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| Unusually for me, I didn't take any photos, so here's one of the descent from Wormhill robbed from MBR magazine |
All that was left was a nice 2 mile warm down along Monsall Trail back to Miller's Dale.
After packing the bikes up, we had a steady walk to the Angler's Rest and Farmer's Blonde all round, well you can't turn it down can you?
Not a bad ride all in, helped with the dry conditions, it's a good example of what the White Peak offers, and apart from a very minor tweak we can make before the steep drop into Wye dale, it's probably the finished article and a ride we'll likely add each year.
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