Garburn after heavy rain November 2009
More heavy rain!*** This is our 250th blog post ***
Goerge, Paul, Grant, Joel, Chris M, Jamie and CT met up at Ings and rode up Dubbs to keep away from Kentmere as it was soooo wet, not a bad run up, then at Garburn we turned left and came down, Jamie warning us that the trail maybe eroded/altered so watch out, he was right the large amount of water run off has altered the trails, (see picture taken on Sunday in daylight, it looks like a building site) this was much trickier and most of us walked some of the way down. We headed right through Limefit and then right before the church at Troutbeck and up the testing lane near high fold. Now along the road to Troutbeck PO and up Robin lane, here also signs of water power changing the landscape, onwards to the first bridleway on the left and enjoy small descent to road. Re-group and decide to head along lane past Wain lane and go down past the farm on Mirk Lane, not too bad, near the last section CT was leading with JB chasing, a polite question " want to pass" yes he said and so JB came past, but got caught by a tree root -Ha!-but managed to stay on and keep going with CT chuckling in the background. Down to the main road, where to now? We could head up WL and on to Longmire, so we started out, we could ride the first section lower down, but after a while we needed to walk, due to the changed track (see photo again for the power of water, GA's bike was fully in the ditch, formed by the water, please note that no bike was harmed during the taking of the photo, although GA was flapping about!). Once on the lane take a right hand bridleway down to Trout Beck and cross the foot bridges, only take care there were some large tree trunks resting against the 2nd bridge, now up the track to join the road and head back via the lanes to Ings. A couple of us sampled the beer and Jalapeno flavour crisps !!!!! next ride is Elterwater, bring money for the pub.
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