For years I was always hoping to do one of the black forrests finest single trail bike rides – the “Kandel ridgeway”: 1500 meter in hight, 50 kilometers (40% single trails) long and a pure 1.000 meters in height downhill on a very panoramic and challenging single trail in one piece. Finally this year after [...]

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Mountain Biking | | | 2 Comments

What else can you do on a cold, damp miserable Friday? Too cold to climb, too miserable to walk.

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Mountain Biking | | | 4 Comments
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Last weeks mountain biking trail, in a new area of the Lakes for us, was great fun! It’s easy to simply fall out of the front door of the house, on to the bike, whizz up and down one of the many fantastic trails in Kentmere, get home, shower, and enjoy tea & cake or [...]

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Letterboxing, Mountain Biking, Walking | | | 2 Comments
6 Images | letterbox hunting | Lakeland Letterboxes

On Sunday we found a new mountain biking circuit on the far side of Lake Windermere.

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Mountain Biking | | | No Comments
5 Images | deer, GPX

Even when it is impossibly wet Kentmere offers perhaps the best valley base for cross-country mountain biking in the Lakeland fells...

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3 Images | hail, wet

It was time to blow out some of the cobwebs, remember how to ride a mountain bike, and discover some of the Dales biking trails around Skipton...

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Mountain Biking | | | 2 Comments
6 Images | injuries

Fell Running, Kayaking, Mountain Biking | | 3 Comments

The rock climbing and (mostly) the gardening meant we needed a rest day - our hands and backs were wrecked! Of course a rest day didn't mean a day of idleness...

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Mountain Biking | | 1 Comment
3 Images | 4x4, horses, rant