5th January 2017 - Satterthwaite for Grizedale in the crisp cold

Seems everyone was either recovering from festive excess (aka colds and flu ;) or such other excuses...it was a cold start -2 below, the water running down Moor Lane had frozen. A car turned up with a solo rider, quick chat then he went off on his own. So I started up Bogle Crag (how to pronounce Bogle, different to that 80's word game Boggle?) steady climb keep right, keep right again, feels all wrong...but it is correct, had a play at the top junction then downhill to the statues, puddles of ice in places and crisp frost, bloomin' freezing so plenty of layers, spare batteries and everything, (NB: lone biking protocol = JB as phone buddy, works fine as long as signal and the cold does not effect mobile battery as it did the other day! so kept it warm in pocket and had a spare!).

OK so not this ride by BH Monday, nice and clear and just as cold

In the forest

The man statues!

A little creepy in a dark wood on your own......

Final gate on Moor Lane with new levers for lazing MTBers ;)

a close up

Work my way through the wood and come out back on the fire road, decided to stay on it and winch my way back up, past the zip slides and did the descent to the VC. The up the NF, steady climb to the top, bit of fire road, more NF did the first boardwalk, but walked the second due to ice risk. Then onward and climb the singletrack, then road past the tank tracks and back via Moor lane, top descents all OK some ice and ridable, more ice along bottom section. Back at car 9.15pm all good a nice chilled ride, probably around zero temp now with pockets of colder air.
This week it's Ings for Garburn (hint of snow....maybe)