Game: Name that road!

[MontyVeda]

Constantly impressed with detective work that goes on here

in my case it's pure luck

 

[Aravis]

It will be tommorow before I get to post another, this thread is realy time consuming.

I managed to put the thread to sleep for a while a few months ago (with a picture I thought was pretty easy). And it seemed to come back stronger. Maybe there's a lesson there.

 

[MontyVeda]

I agree - well done, @Aravis!



It is indeed a lovely part of the world, and SoV and I had worked out a route for a super forum ride there. We intended to run it in June or July this year but the wretched Covid-19 virus took the world hostage! We held off any announcements because we hoped that the situation would improve but I don't think it is going to happen this year now. Let's keep it for 2021, by which time (fingers crossed!) some properly developed vaccine(s) (i.e. non-Russian, rushed out after testing it on a donkey, a chimp, and 37 prisoners) might be available?

This is what we had in mind. You can see that we would have been going along the lovely and obscure road in question. That section is a road that I haven't ridden before, which is why we planned the route to go that way.

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I did it with @Blue Hills last year. About 2/3 of it is very rideable, 1/3 less so unless you have a mountain bike and/or are exceptionally skilled and confident on sharp wet rocks, gravel, ruts, puddles etc., especially going downhill!

It is very remote; definitely not the kind of place that you would want to fall off and hurt yourself, especially if riding solo. Great views though...

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What a route! Way beyond my peddle-abilies though... but i love the stretch between Quernmore* and Wray. Roeburndale is just gorgeous.

*for those who don't know, it's pronounced quo-mur.

 

[Venod]

I think this may be too easy, I have ridden this road many times in this direction but only once the other way.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I think this may be too easy, I have ridden this road many times in this direction but only once the other way.

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Is that the road from Arncliffe in Littondale over to Malham?

 

[Venod]

Is that the road from Arncliffe in Littondale over to Malham?

I told you it was easy, one of my favorite rides, but its hard work.

Over to you.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I told you it was easy, one of my favorite rides, but its hard work.

Over to you.

I last rode it when it was the last big hill on a 200k audax, heading to Clitheroe.

I was begging for the grim reaper to take me by the time that dip to the stream appeared, having falsely believed the worst was over...

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Rapidly running out of suitable pics.

This one might be easy too...

 

[ColinJ]

Is that the road from Arncliffe in Littondale over to Malham?

I told you it was easy, one of my favorite rides, but its hard work.

I last rode it when it was the last big hill on a 200k audax, heading to Clitheroe.

I was begging for the grim reaper to take me by the time that dip to the stream appeared, having falsely believed the worst was over...

I didn't recognise it, but that isn't surprising given that I have only ridden it 3 or 4 times and every time I was so knackered that I wasn't really taking in the scenery!

 

[MontyVeda]

Rapidly running out of suitable pics.

This one might be easy too... View attachment 543004

Yorkshire Dales? ...at a rough guess.

(I was initially thinking Honister or another Cumbrian Pass, but they don't have roads wide enough to justify a white line)

edit... except the Kirkstone Pass, heading up it from Ulleswater (i think the exact location of your picture is up down the hill a bit)

another edit... this is more like it:

 

[ColinJ]

That's a lovely looking road @Venod

Lots of them up here!

Why don't you drag yourself and some fellow southerners up here for one of @Sea of vapours and my joint summer forum rides in the Dales/Forest of Bowland? We did get a contingent from elsewhere for the first one, but since then most of the riders have been local.

 

[Venod]

It is one of my favorites and worth a visit if you fnd yourself in the vicinity, try to ride it in this direction Arncliffe to Malham.

At about 20 mins in this video the riders aproach the bottom of the hill.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNvAOaYASg

 

[ColinJ]

It is one of my favorites and worth a visit if you fnd yourself in the vicinity, try to ride it in this direction Arncliffe to Malham.

At about 20 mins in this video the riders aproach the bottom of the hill.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNvAOaYASg

I wouldn't fancy tackling that climb straight after beer, pie and peas!

 

[Aravis]

You definitely have it, @MontyVeda, although apart from the rock formation on the skyline, it's difficult to get a convincing match on anything.

A few yards further down the old road works markings visible in @roubaixtuesday's picture become visible:

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Yorkshire Dales? ...at a rough guess.

(I was initially thinking Honister or another Cumbrian Pass, but they don't have roads wide enough to justify a white line)

edit... except the Kirkstone Pass, heading up it from Ulleswater (i think the exact location of your picture is up down the hill a bit)

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another edit... this is more like it:
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Spot on. Taken after a rapid descent so I could take photos of my friends following.

Near the start of a ride of the route of the Fred Whitton. I feel tired just thinking about it!

Over to you.