Game: Name that road!

[MontyVeda]

...

So obviously it's ...

I'm thinking Skye.

 

[Aravis]

No-one's seriously off-track, but not yet particularly warm either.

The really distinctive feature is the group of mountains on the far left. The middle pair - what does your imagination see?

 

[MontyVeda]

erm... boobs

 

[Aravis]

Well I know what they look like to me, and one of you is right.

Here's a view of the same feature from the opposite direction:

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I don't think it's Tittesworth in the Peak District either

 

[roubaixtuesday]

(Slightly more seriously, I did wonder about the Mamores..)

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Anywhere here perchance?

 

[slow scot]

Rhum, maybe, but not sure from where. Maybe Islay.

 

[Aravis]

Rhum, maybe, but not sure from where. Maybe Islay.

I have some pictures of Rum that do look a bit similar, but it's not that.

The first picture (showing the road to be identified) is a northward view.

 

[slow scot]

Mournes?

 

[Aravis]

Mournes?

No, you were much warmer before.

Aside from the sniggering, breast-shaped hills remains the strongest clue.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Am sensing my road ain't exciting anyone's detective impulses, so a couple more clues so we can move on:

- to the immediate left just across the field there's a (small) National Nature Reserve
- there's a pub nearby that shares its name with a London underground station

There aren't that many on here familiar with Herts/Beds/Bucks/Cambs roads are there?!

Actually over familiar . I’ve been all over these areas during lockdown , and it looked like so many places I’d been riding. Having seen the answer I rode that section in June but I just couldn’t find the right place when looking on street view .

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yep, good work @Aravis

Incidentally, managed to seek out a 10% climb in Cambs yesterday. Although I really did have to search for it!!

Would that be Croydon Hill?

 

[Tribansman]

Would that be Croydon Hill?

Yes! Was a decent little climb and great view from the top.

I've done a lot of riding recently in that Biggleswade-Huntingdon-Cambridge-Buntingford diamond. Some lovely, quiet, rolling roads and pretty expansive views over the flat expanses

 

[Venod]

Are they the paps of jura? I ran over them in the Lowe Mountain Marathon, 1997 there is a video of the event on the Web somewhere, I spotted myself on it.