16th July 2009 - Elterwater

7 riders met in the car park, Grant, Charlie, Neil, John, Paul, George and CT. We set off left out of the car park and along the lane, then right and uphill onto the bridleway offering the usual testing warmup! Up to Little Langdale and down to the ford, we went over the wooden bridge and noted a new sign, stating only 2 people at a time to cross it and you could see the deflection to one side, so beware. Then we headed right and past the cave and up and over to High Tilberthwaite, then left to the playground, then right Hodge close, now head along the lanes to Iron Keld a nice battling route where CT and GA did a bit of racing (well it beats an X-box). Once at Iron Keld taking the air, we thought we should do the new route to Sunny Brow, we knew roughly where it went and it was still daylight! so on we travelled up Iron Keld and then down the new route, now I think we headed on an extra loop down Pullscar plantation and so we had a nice cycle back along the lanes and past The Drunken Duck, keep going and back to Iron Keld, this time up and over the usual way and blast down to the road for a quick cycle back to the car park. Next ride is Askham.