Sunday, 5 September 2010

Back o' Skiddaw

We had a few errands to do in Keswick, so packed the bikes in the van and did the back o' Skiddaw ride. We were both pretty beasted for climbing on saturday and hadn't really twigged that the wind was getting very blowy and would be in our faces all the way from Bassenthwaite village round the back of Skiddaw to Loughrigg. Doh!! It was very tough going, making the climb to Skiddaw house particularly hard and unpleasant. At least the trails were dry, and the sky blue and sunny! The descent back to Briar Rigg was also slightly ruined by catching up with the tail-enders from the Puma Lakeland Trails race. Still they have as much right to the trails as we do, and I hate being buzzed by bikers myself.

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