19th March 2015 - Troutbeck - Jenkins Crag - Coffin route

George, Neil, Joel, Grant, Jamie and CT turned out on this clear evening; start off up the tarmac to Troutbeck village centre and then off up Robin Lane, nice and steady, stopped for a photo of the lake;

Windermere from Robin Lane

then we headed on down to Jenkins Crag, nice and dry this evening so very ridable :)
Now down into Ambleside and along the road to start the coffin route in the park, nice test along the route until White Moss then tee off around the tarn and up onto Loughrigg terrace and along to the caves;

George and Joel

At the caves had to adjust Joels brake pads as they had worn down and the spring was grinding, luckily Neil had a spare pad and so that went in, then we set off down the rock path which turned into a large boulder field...and a OTB incident, this time it was Jamie! Saved by his back pack he just squashed his flapjack Tupperware (so it's down to us next ride), nothing else broken so onward, back into Ambleside and up Jenkins Crag, a few climbs and a blast down to Troutbeck to finish, a great evenings ride, just over 14 miles and 3 hours:).
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