It all started early for a weekend, Wednesday night farntically packing trying to find my PADI Licence Card and other saundry pieces of needlessly necessary kit. Thursday afternoon in fact as I plucked a lucky wreck from the rack was when it all really started though (a very nice 2009 Norco Faze 2) which really desparately needed a bit of attention to the brakes.
Two sets of pads and fresh brake fluid bled through front and back and it was finally ready.
After breifly stopping in Leeds for the night and then gathering plenty of Diving Gear, we headed across the A65 tailing every caravan on the way each and everytime we managed to over take we got lost! And back to square one behind the very same caravans again.Until we eventually reached this
.....The Lakes!
A litttle late but there none the less @
Capernwray Dive Site
After a long climb up an extremely windy 45degree hill a few hundrew meters we were finally at the top.
A strange barron evironment littered with rocks and horizontal trees
it provided some amazing technical riding.
it provided some amazing technical riding.
In the end we just had to walk...
The gaps between the rocks did make excellent places to stand you bike!
Whilst you take a toilet break in the background...
I might have said I would say that!
Until in the end, we descended down some crazy steep sit on the back wheel type rocky descents.
We got down to our sighted destination, we'd spotted a disused quarry with a waterfall coming in from the road, we'd driven passed this previously to our overnight destination and back again in the morning but it was so low next to the road we'd never of seen it.
I doubt this one would have been salvable, so we called it a day and headed back after all of a short ride in the dales...
Definately need to head back again soon, get in some proper epic riding maybe even take a tent...
Squeeze everthing back into the van with enough space for an extra stow away for a short transfer to another car and we were off back to Leeds...
