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Post by Marmite on Jan 17, 2016 11:00:23 GMT
this is what gunnerside ghyll looks like in normal conditions, pretty ridable huh?  Think we should of carried on down that route mate lol We had an interesting diversion  Look forward too o having a go at that in the summer  |
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Post by hodgy on Jan 17, 2016 11:11:32 GMT
this is what gunnerside ghyll looks like in normal conditions, pretty ridable huh? It was pretty much beyond me in the middle section even in good conditions ..Jaco too ... Ian Bell had a good go at it though ..with one or two dabs .. It's a challenge to say the least ! |
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 12:07:31 GMT
agree hodgy, i didnt clean it in good conditions, there was at least one section where i had to walk but IIRC it was 95% ridable. having said that i can imagine that this is one of those trails that can change if its been washed away with weather conditions.
also looking forward to seeing any vid footage........................jack and gaz?
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Post by Marmite on Jan 17, 2016 12:52:03 GMT
Got to try and edit what I did mate .. Don't use the GoPro very much as its jays lol some good bits as well got the run down the trail where John had a little slide eeek |
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 16:10:28 GMT
just found this vid on youtube of the gunnerside ghyll descent. this is the way we should have gone.so looks alot like the icy one we tried was the wrong one. look how vague the trail is right at the start there does also look to be another option from an MBR route www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=jlpkxedgxaosdfdq |
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 16:34:53 GMT
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 17:03:14 GMT
just having a photobucket faff  |
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 17:09:53 GMT
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Post by hodgy on Jan 17, 2016 17:21:04 GMT
Well we must have made the same mistake when we tackled it Glynn ..cos I don't recognise anything on that vid ..but what you did looks more familiar !
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 17:33:15 GMT
Well we must have made the same mistake when we tackled it Glynn ..cos I don't recognise anything on that vid ..but what you did looks more familiar ! yes mate, the vid is the same as the route we did a couple of years ago, and i had a feelng it would be easy to miss when im not familiar with it. makes me want to go back again tomorrow to put things right with meself  |
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Post by kirky72 on Jan 17, 2016 18:09:01 GMT
So you were trying to killme sending me down that tight funnel like descent with only ice to ride on.
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 18:10:50 GMT
So you were trying to killme sending me down that tight funnel like descent with only ice to ride on. OOPS! |
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Post by kirky72 on Jan 17, 2016 18:36:36 GMT
It was actually fun at first, but it was a case of brake and carve through the snow and rocks. There only was a tire width of space further down though and unfortunately that was frozen. The turning must have been 100metres or so earlier than we turned off, there was nothing obvious though to indicate it. Maybe without the snow we would have seen lots of tyres tracks heading in the right direction. Never mind it was a little bit of adventure.
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Post by kirky72 on Jan 17, 2016 18:58:22 GMT
I fancy doing the pen y gent (foxup) ride out of Horton in Ribblesdale sometime soon. It's in this weeks mbr but I also have the map and written point to pint route from pedal north.
It's around 16 miles and can easily be combined with the best bits of a loop of Clapham/feizor.
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Post by hodgy on Jan 17, 2016 19:22:30 GMT
I did a Hawes to Horton circular route on me tod a few years back which was also very good ...
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 19:28:51 GMT
I fancy doing the pen y gent (foxup) ride out of Horton in Ribblesdale sometime soon. It's in this weeks mbr but I also have the map and written point to pint route from pedal north. It's around 16 miles and can easily be combined with the best bits of a loop of Clapham/feizor. im up for that john |
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Post by shelfside on Jan 17, 2016 20:08:38 GMT
There is a route that goes along the top of Gunnerside Gyll as opposed to down into it, it starts with a single track then opens into a nice flowing descent, a little bitm of farm track intoa fiels then down a nice rockyish track into Gunnerside.
Looked a great day out.
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 17, 2016 22:02:19 GMT
i'd be interested to see where exactly you mean shelfside. maybe you could post up a gpx or just a photo of an o.s. map with it highlighted
just thinking...........its a pity no-one got any pics of where the footpath became a 2ft wide wall with 6ft drop either side
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Post by roundie1981 on Jan 18, 2016 9:03:48 GMT
i'd be interested to see where exactly you mean shelfside. maybe you could post up a gpx or just a photo of an o.s. map with it highlighted just thinking...........its a pity no-one got any pics of where the footpath became a 2ft wide wall with 6ft drop either side Do you mean the part near the river Glynn? Thank god it wasn't slippy otherwise it could have been painful |
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Post by shelfside on Jan 18, 2016 9:46:15 GMT
i'd be interested to see where exactly you mean shelfside. maybe you could post up a gpx or just a photo of an o.s. map with it highlighted just thinking...........its a pity no-one got any pics of where the footpath became a 2ft wide wall with 6ft drop either side Gonna try and explain, where the track is ...... when you come off left on the moor track, above the Ghyll (there is a vent pipe on your left), over the brow of the hill the "new" track turns right then left going down hill to a gate in a wall, some where along there you probably went right to enter the top of the Ghyll. I dont think Ive got pics but Ill see if I can find the route. |
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Post by shelfside on Jan 18, 2016 10:16:30 GMT
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Post by glynnsixo on Jan 18, 2016 16:26:18 GMT
looking at the gpx that one is a bridleway approx 400m before the one we should have taken. they join up at the bottom and it must be somewhere near the old mining building at 3.33 in the vid i posted up
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Post by jack on Jan 18, 2016 19:57:45 GMT
Was painfull to ride along anyway haha nvm if it was slippy
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Post by shelfside on Jan 21, 2016 13:46:56 GMT
looking at the gpx that one is a bridleway approx 400m before the one we should have taken. they join up at the bottom and it must be somewhere near the old mining building at 3.33 in the vid i posted up The route Ive done stays at the top of the valley, the track you guys went along splits and goes down to the right or straight ahead (you guys went straight ahead or you would have ended up at the river) Im not sure if your and my route "meet" at any point. Ive only ever walked down and along the Ghyll, but ridden along the top. |
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