Possible Saturday route advise Yorkshire

kirkys your man for malham area.but when you say 'the dark peak loop' which route is it? theres more to the peaks than just one route.have you tried the jacobs ladder ride? possiby the best condensed route in the peaks, or the cutgate route which should be at its best at this time of year.whereabouts are you based? iv done lakes rides in the day there and back from sheffield whch is 2 and half hours drive to south lakes.

fair enough. i know what you mean by wanting a change. me and kirky are thinking of doing a pen-y-ghent ride next week but thats on wednesday.

Steve I may well beheading around those parts tomorrow to try some of the pen y Ghent route in reverse tagged onto the best descents from Clapham.

I would have liked to show you something around there on Saturday morning and I will be riding but need to be home by 1ish to takeover the kids as my wife goes on a late shift, so going to stay a bit more local.

I'm planning on maybe doing something around rivington, as I can control the timings a bit better, it would include a few good of the famous descents for sure. If I start early enough then some of the naughtier cheekies, but for sure San Marino, shooting hut, two lads, ice cream run. Actually they are all footpaths anyway but some are more acceptable than others.

Could also do something from the burnley side, just depends if that falls into the bits you've down too death. Down from the windmills, past can't, through hurstwood. Left to swinger ton zig zags, ridealgh lane, climb up widdop (you wanted a nasty climb this is a bastard) descend gorple, play in hurstwood trails climb back up to the windmills. That's probably handier for me.

Kirky I will join you Saturday a.m. are you out early?

Steve is on the fence atm as hes never done a Rivington ride ,I wanted to get up to Malham more for the views as well as the ride out , if I had time I be up in the lakes but the boss will be back by 5pm , I would be tempted but a run around Pen y Ghent , I will speak to Rob (lad from Borrowdale and ask what he fanices too )

John rivvi will do Saturday out Saturday night for wifeys birthday so need to get back reasonable to do my hair, what's left of it!!

Just been around penny Ghent today, you get walkers around Clapham as it's nice to park up have a coffee etc, likewise form Horton, so the walkers are on the near side.

I met plenty of walkers on my way up from Clapham towards Heskwith bridge, where the climb up towards pen y Ghent and the path to the summit begins. Heading up towards pen y Ghent itself I only met one family of walkers, a bit of a bugger of a climb gaining 1400/1500 ft in a mile and a half, so not a problem to make a slow pass of a group of red socks. Once you turn the corner and head around the side and over to Halton hill/foxup it's very remote, well at least the route I take is. I didn't see anybody again for the next couple of hours other than cows and sheep. The climb up from foxup farm to foxup moor is the only push of the day but from the top of there when it's dry it's a nice roller coaster of singletrack with bumps and drops over limestone features then a fast flowing descent down to hull pot. A quick look in there and then there's around a further mile and half of fast choppy wide track back to Horton. I missed that bug out today and climbed back over to self side to leave the final descent back into Clapham.

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Cheers John ,I will have a good look at that for Saturday ..cheers

You should enjoy that one nothing too testing but a nice day out on a bike, the drag up Stockdale lane is rewarded with a good down hill towards Malham Tarn, the bit around the lake is a bit boring but scenic and not sure what its like down to Kilnsey (not been that way you'll have to let me know).