Grizedale

At Easter the girls were packed off to Spain for their holidays and we went to the Lakes for some quality cycling and wandering around.

Friday April 22nd
Grizedale Forest

The official bit...The North Face Mountain Bike Trail, 16km, consists of nine sections of sinuous singletrack trail on the west side of Grizedale Forest. The trail offers adrenelising sections of single track descent with leg burning up hills, contouring through oak woodlands and conifer forest. The challenging trail also gives the mountain biker tricky board walk sections through meadows yet reward the trail rider with outstanding views along the way.

I once again found this difficult but yet again, thoroughly exhilarating. Once again other cyclists were very cautious and encouraging. My main aim was to finish without a fall. This didn't happen  ;-) But it wasn't too bad. Just took a fall on a berm, it was my shoulder that took the worst of it. Mr Berry was not popular for saying 'can't understand how you fell off on the simple bit!'.

The weather was fabulous and once again the breathtaking views made me enormously thankful for the beautiful world we have been given.

In the afternoon, we enjoyed one of the walking routes around the forest. A fabulous day.