23rd April 2009 - Troutbeck

9 riders; Paul, George, Jamie ,Grant, Ian, John, Neil and his son in law, Charlie and Phil 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 has rocky to start with and then turned into a farm track leading to Long Green Head Farm (not sure whether the lane up to the farm is a bridleway) where we passed through a gate and turned right on to the bridleway which passed Limefit Park for approx 2miles to the top of the hill. . After going through the gate we took the right fork down the rocky desent which takes us down to the A592 . 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 . On meeting the road we turned right and road to the post office where we road up the hill to the seat with the fabulous view and then took the left turn down to the road. Here the group with the exception of Charlie decided to go anti clockwise down Mirk lane first and up Wain lane . Back at the top of Wain lane Charlie was waiting for us obviously quicker her way or is she just faster? She probaly 'powered on'. Grant then persuaded everyone to take the bridleway on the left leading to the seat at the top of the hill and back down to the post office where before reaching the first of the houses we took a different route by taking a right turn on to an a very dark single track down to the road from here we turned left and travelled through the village past our usual track by the church to a bridleway on the left that passed the Mortal Man Hotel and then back on to A592 where to turned right to go back to the cars. No pub visit, next ride Red Lion, Lowick.