A beautiful summers evening at Elterwater, CSC and CM were there with plenty of time, but as the masses gathered we were surprised by two things, firstly the tales of thunderstorms that Jamie had driven through on the way, and secondly Joel had turned up. While we waited for Ian to fix his seat bolt, we caught the edge of a shower leaving a perfect dry patch in the shape of my bike which had been lying on the ground. It amused me.
We set off up the road towards High Close youth hostel. A small section of off road to the right of the road before we reached the top. The descent down Loughrigg Terrace saw us all taking different routes – some more legal than others . The ride along the road was uneventful except for the shout of “watch out for ice” - it was probably too warm an evening anyway. We were all looking forward to the climb up the ‘Concrete’ road – actually only about 5 yds of it is surfaced with concrete. At the top gate we stopped to look at the rubber tracked go anywhere vehicle and wondered what it was doing up there. We were soon to find out. They are obviously trying to recreate Offa’s Dyke along the former path. They have forgotten to do the bits where streams cross, resulting in some fairground-like riding. Jamie tried to jump the gap – more speed we think. We rode the new bridleway around the back of Loughrigg Tarn before taking the track that goes through the woods below the Youth hostel. While this is not our longest ride it now all links together rather well. Back to the pub in time for the most expensive chips in the world.
Thanks Charlie for the reporting, check out http://tracker1.reperion.com/gmap.aspx?name=joel for a GPS route from Joel, (you may need to zoom about). Next ride is Askham for Loadpot hill, park at the swimming pool.
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