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Post by kirky72 on Feb 28, 2016 19:38:11 GMT
Had a family walk around the Pendle area this morning, parking a couple of miles the far side of Barley we didn't really intend on climbing Pendle hill itself but after we walked nearer to it my oldest daughter as keen to get up there. Its quite it's a steep climb of many hundreds of rocky steps. Lovely views from the top. Would be great to rip down the front side on the bike but they aren't allowed up the hill proper. chloes legs were really worn out walking back down and we still had a few miles left to get back to meet the mrs who had decided to stay with youngest and head for a small playground to keep her occupied whilst they waited for us. i scoped a few trails running down, that could be good for a night ride in summer, other than the main walkers routes which are too steep and step ridden for all but the best DH guys I would think. Extremely tough on the knees and calves coming back down. Part way up and feeling strong, keep going our kid!   A view back towards Barley. 
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Post by kirky72 on Feb 28, 2016 19:49:10 GMT
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Post by kalli on Feb 28, 2016 20:57:13 GMT
Great to see the kids out in the great outdoors!!! Looks like she had a good day, first step to getting them out and on their bikes, saying that I've only got a 50/50 success rate:-(
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Post by kirky72 on Feb 28, 2016 21:19:07 GMT
They both love riding their bikes as well, trouble is at 5 and 9 they are at different levels. The youngest obviously doesn't want to go too far or hilly, has no gears and keeps forgetting to use her brakes. I've done a couple of ten milers with the oldest and she's fine until she comes to a steep hill. More the trouble is that she pesters like mad to come more often and doesn't quite get why she can't ride some of the places I do. She can come out a bit more with me through summer and l will slowly introduce her to some drops and rocky bits etc.
She had a go around the skills area at Cyb last sumner and was doing okay, trying to pump the track and up weighting etc over small drops, all was going well until her mum crashed into the fence on my bike and we called it a day.
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Post by windysurfer on Feb 29, 2016 20:45:29 GMT
Funnily enough I've never walk up Pendle Hill but have ridden up a few times now,normally at night, in the dark but this was last June on an Wednesday evening ride  Only a short ride but one of the toughest we do on a Wednesday night |
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Post by kirky72 on Feb 29, 2016 21:44:10 GMT
You naughty boys? Which way up and down did you go, I expect you came up via the nick of Pendle, the front zig zag looks like it would make an ace descent but it's one of the main access footpaths.
Give me a nod next time yon go up there, when it's not windy or too cold or wet.
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Post by windysurfer on Feb 29, 2016 22:17:11 GMT
You naughty boys? Which way up and down did you go, I expect you came up via the nick of Pendle, the front zig zag looks like it would make an ace descent but it's one of the main access footpaths. Setting of from Barley we go up the zig zags, to the trig point then back down via the stone pavement,then the sheep trail back down towards Ogden Clough.Only about 8 miles but an action packed 8 miles. Give me a nod next time yon go up there, when it's not windy or too cold or wet. Not much chance of those three ever happening on Pendle  |
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Post by hodgy on Mar 1, 2016 7:16:58 GMT
Nowt naughty about that ..pioneers I would call them ...
Footpath status can be changed to bridleway ..if you can prove you have used it consistently over a number of years ( I forget how many ..but it's a lot ! )
How are we meant to do that if we don't ride on them in the first place ?
That law was made to be broken ..go ride a footpath in the country is my motto !
OR ..just give us the same rights of way as Scotland ..
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Post by kirky72 on Mar 1, 2016 9:32:31 GMT
As a rough guess I would say my rides in the countryside outweigh walks in the country side by at least 5 to 1d much more than that in winter when walking in the country with the kids seems to drop off a fair bit. I may accidentally ride some fps that aren't clearly marked, tempted by inviting looking ones that are in the middle of nowhere. However it's clear opening up access to these which are frequented by a constant flow of all types of walkers (casual families to hard core ramblers) will lead to bedlam
Overall common sense prevails.
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Post by hodgy on Mar 1, 2016 10:14:01 GMT
Undoubtably it does John ..and as a keen Mountain Biker ..those sort of footpaths hold about as much appeal as a blow torch to remove the hair off my arse ...and I would avoid them like the plague .
But my " arguement " is about having the choice to ride them ..at the moment we don't have any ...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 10:40:04 GMT
Great to see the kids out in the great outdoors!!! Looks like she had a good day, first step to getting them out and on their bikes, saying that I've only got a 50/50 success rate:-( Same here Kalli - eldest has got a few issues atm and the middle one (whose keen when it's warm and dry!) is off to University this year, so I'd better get him out while I can, this summer. |
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Post by windysurfer on Mar 1, 2016 12:06:27 GMT
As a rough guess I would say my rides in the countryside outweigh walks in the country side by at least 5 to 1d much more than that in winter when walking in the country with the kids seems to drop off a fair bit. I may accidentally ride some fps that aren't clearly marked, tempted by inviting looking ones that are in the middle of nowhere. However it's clear opening up access to these which are frequented by a constant flow of all types of walkers (casual families to hard core ramblers) will lead to bedlam Overall common sense prevails. Totally agree, which is we ride it at night, normally when it's dark |
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