Jacobs Ladder, Peak District

rapid_donkey

I rode down Jacobs Ladder at the weekend as part of a 15 mile route. I managed to get from top to bottom on my first time without needing to stop. Never known anything like it though! Nails! Anyone else done it?
Arent ramblers in the Peak District snotty aswell!

Briggo

rapid_donkey wrote:

I rode down Jacobs Ladder at the weekend as part of a 15 mile route. I managed to get from top to bottom on my first time without needing to stop. Never known anything like it though! Nails! Anyone else done it?
Arent ramblers in the Peak District snotty aswell!

Yes I have, yes it hurts the arms and no ramblers in the peaks aren't snotty they're pretty good actually.

ilovedirt

I've never had an issue with ramblers in the peaks.

kajjal

Try riding up it

Most ramblers are cheerful enough.

Long_Time_Lurker

Ramblers can be a bit funny with bikers if they don't give way or slow down.
I disarm them with a cheerful 'hello' as a I ride past.

bluechair84

Jacobs ladder splits in to two routes, I've only been up and down then northern path and having done so, have been sharply informed by a rambler that it's a footpath and I should take the southern half. He was quite insistent about it. It does look like short dashes (for footpath) on an OS map, so technically... I went the wrong way... Though he's the first ramble I've come across in many years to spell out that his territory is not my territory.

jonathan914

I have also ridden down the wrong side by accident.
The ramblers on that particular day were great, I think in that particular area ramblers know there going to meet mountain bikes, your always going to get people who have nothing else to worry about than quoting rules and regulations. One thing to remember is that the mass trespass by ramblers on kinder in the 1930's did a great deal in regard to making landowners allow the kind of access we enjoy today. Still can't manage more than 20 yards going up it though which is the real challenge.

YIMan

Jacob's Ladder is hard on the arms, but I'd say Cavedale is technically harder.

Didn't notice Jacob's Ladder splitting into two when I rode it in February so could well have ridden down the footpath.......

Briggo

bluechair84 wrote:

Jacobs ladder splits in to two routes, I've only been up and down then northern path and having done so, have been sharply informed by a rambler that it's a footpath and I should take the southern half. He was quite insistent about it. It does look like short dashes (for footpath) on an OS map, so technically... I went the wrong way... Though he's the first ramble I've come across in many years to spell out that his territory is not my territory.

It's clearly signposted when it splits, map or no map.

Briggo

YIMan wrote:

Jacob's Ladder is hard on the arms, but I'd say Cavedale is technically harder.

Agree with that, JL is just looooong.

Cavedale is just ridiculous, cleared it when it was bone dry and then did it when it was pretty wet (almost like a stream) and had to stop myself from becoming deaded twice.

divingmoose

I am going to give it a go soon when the bike is finished. On the link you posted it talks about edale care park I assume is there only one and is it the visitor centre one?