Dark Peak or White Peak ?, recomend me a route

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  • MarkLG
    MarkLG Posts: 189
    We had snow in Sheffield again last night and it's still hovering around freezing, so it'll be a while before it's cleared up on the Peaks.
    I went up to Hope Cross on Friday and there are drifts of 12" and more on the main track, so pretty well unrideable. The climb up to Lockerbrook Farm was mostly ridable on frozen snow, and the descent to Ladybower was OK. The road past the visitors centre is very icey.
    I've done a couple of rides across Houndkirk Moor and Totley Moor which were mostly OK, but some of the tracks into the woods were very icey.
    If you're hoping to get up high and do some decent descents then forget about it. If you stick to the low level stuff then it's very slippery, but ridable.
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  • bamba
    bamba Posts: 856
    Its just a loop around ladybower res its self, still a newbie to the area,hoping to complete what we didnt do last week (see above), not sure of all the correct names, but marked as fairholmes vis' center,whinstone lee tor, win hill , hagg farm , rowlee farm on the map, was reasonable last monday but that was with no fresh snow fall for a few days i think, so not sure how thursday will plan out.
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  • legendary_phil
    legendary_phil Posts: 12
    I found this site which has a few ladybower routes on

    http://mtbmonkey.com/
  • Bluemoon39
    Bluemoon39 Posts: 168
    Did the Ladybower route clockwise for the first time last weekend as described by Ibbo68 (Thank you).
    Got to say I'm sold on doing it this way, much less pushing involved and more time riding. Suicide brakes was amazing!
    Think it will be a long time before I do it Anti Clockwise again.
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