Grizedale North face trail

jamie GT

Hi me and my wife just got back from lake windermere
We went to Grizedale woods on saturday morning to Ride the North face trail i pre looked up the info about the trail.But nothing said that the route was so slatey and extremely rocky.To be honest apart from the peaks fire roads and the views i found the Trail quite poor .Does anyone agree :?: :?:

Radioactiveman

Slatey and rocky are not words I would use to describe it. Shite maybe.

I ride in the lake district every week and the only time we use it is passing through to avoid fireroad. when riding in the vicinity It keeps the nuggets off the good natural stuff so I cant complain too much.

Do some natural routes next time you are there, I can email gpx files if you need.

jamie GT

Yes we will do more natural routes next time .Bonus was going to Wheelbase in staveley cracking Bike shop..

Radioactiveman

Check out biketreks in ambleside, much smaller but very popular and very good service

sniper68

jamie GT wrote:

Hi me and my wife just got back from lake windermere
We went to Grizedale woods on saturday morning to Ride the North face trail i pre looked up the info about the trail.But nothing said that the route was so slatey and extremely rocky.To be honest apart from the peaks fire roads and the views i found the Trail quite poor .Does anyone agree :?: :?:

Are you saying you prefered the fireroads as the rest was too technical,ie slatey and rocky?The NFT is one of the easier red-graded trails and the "slatey and rocky"bits are what are supposed to make it interesting,but are quite tame really.

jamie GT wrote:

Yes we will do more natural routes next time

The NFT is like your local pavement compared to the natural stuff around there and the Lake District in general,so avoid if you didn't like the slate and rocks on the NFT

Paulie W

I agree that if you thought NFT was too 'slatey and rocky' you would be best to avoid the natural routes altogether.