26th February 2009 - Troutbeck

On this wet night 6 riders Jamie, George, Paul Chris M, Grant and Neil met at the layby near Troutbeck church just off the A592. The ride started by turning left on the A592 past the Limefit camping site and then taking a bridleway on the right after about 1/2mile this track was rocky to start with and then turned into a farm track leading to Long green head farm where we passed through a gate and turned right on to the bridleway which we stayed on for approx 2miles to the top of the hill. This is the track is the one which we normally join from cycling through the Limefit campsite. The track after joining the Limefit fork looked so different as deer fences have been erected all along the left side of it. After going through the gate we took the right fork which takes us down to the A592 on the last very rock section of this track Chris M suffered a nasty fall on the wet rocks and leave it to him to explain his injury. On joining the A592 we turned left and used the track on the right hand side of the road with the spiking railing to cycle to the bridleway on the right at the top of the hill. Here we enjoyed the long sweeping downhill to the stream and then struggled to ride the up hill into the village with only Jamie making all of the climb. On meeting the road we went straight across and joined the bridleway that went up a driveway to join the next road where we turned left on to Wain Lane which provided an excellent if slippy down hill. Joining the main road we turned right and then right on to Mirk Lane where again Jamie was the only one to clear the difficult climb with Grant vowing to return on Sunday to conquer the climb. At the end of Mirk Lane we turned right and then left up the bridleway to Robin lane turning right and proceeding down hill to Troutbeck village taking the bridleway past to the church to A592 then turning right and back to the car. Just 2 hours in all and no one visited the pub. Next ride Barbon 5th March 09. Thanks to GT for the text.