Chocolate Log: Edale Loop

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Edale Loop Map

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Ride Details

Distance:	17 Miles
Grade:	Hard Steep, rocky, loose climbing and descending with one or two
Time taken:	5 - 8 hrs depending on whether England win 5 - 1 away to Germany the day before you ride it
Summary:	This loop can be ridden either way round, varying the climb/descent at Hollins Cross with a similar one at Mam Tor. I personally prefer riding down Jacob's Ladder and Rushup Edge, but it's great either way round. Technical climbs and descents will test you to the limit, I guarantee that you will not make it up all the climbs, but you'll want to try.
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Map Notes

Start at the carpark near the station in Edale.

Pick your direction and off you go.

This route has been in all the magazines and all over the web plenty of times, so I won't waste my time rewriting it all here.

It's not hard to navigate, just be careful to stay on the bridleways or you'll get us all in trouble.

Comments

The jury is out on whether this is best going UP or DOWN Jacob's Ladder.

I vote DOWN!!!

Posted by: WA at August 20, 2003 04:39 PM

top riding the peaks is quite technical in places. try the peveril castle gorge descent and remember...don't dab.

Posted by: alex 6 at February 4, 2004 01:28 PM

Yep! down in winter on ice!!!!

Posted by: routemartin at May 5, 2004 11:06 PM

Hang about! you did it the wronge way! Ha! Ha! ha! you've got to go back and do it again. see ya!

Posted by: routemartin at May 5, 2004 11:08 PM

lived in glossop since birth, 21 years old and i still havent done this trail, gonna do it this summer, i think down jacobs ladder would be better, i have walked it and it looked pretty good trial.

Posted by: kaiser at June 24, 2004 03:07 PM

hi ........i am an enduro rider (yamaha 600)bin up it and down jacobs ladder .....shit me up any way ......sorry i can't ride a pedal bike ...too much 'ard work !

Posted by: pete at July 29, 2004 11:37 PM

Well pete just F*** off with that on the ladder!!

Posted by: routemartin at August 5, 2004 11:42 PM

I always park in Heyfield (much cheaper than Edale) and do the loop so I ride up Jacobs ladder to Edale Cross, then drop to Hayfield, Its a push/ride up and a balls out desent to the car. If you've got the energy, when you get to the bottem of the last desent (From the 'cross) the road bears left steeply up hill. When you get to the crest of this hill there is a white marker stone on the RHS. Go left uphill here (Signed Pennine Bridleway) to a gate. Through gate and follow singletrack for a very sweet finish to a fantastic ride

Posted by: Martyn at October 19, 2004 11:41 AM

Done both ways lots of times. Better ride all told if you go up jacobs ladder-better descents down the Gorge to Edale, on Rushup edge and especially from Hayfiels through the Roych. 3 hours is an okay time with stops. That means you can do the 'shooting cabin' descent (one of the best descents in the peaks!) in the afternoon. Its just north of Hayfield. All welcome.

Posted by: Jon M at June 27, 2005 02:31 PM

ive done a weely all the way up winnats pass beat that then

Posted by: john smith at September 2, 2005 11:49 AM

dow down down down down

Posted by: ogs at October 26, 2005 12:04 PM

Ridden up Jacob's Ladder lots of times, hm, Jon M? You did better than Nick Craig then ;-)

Posted by: hoppy at November 15, 2005 12:50 PM

yea. up up up. managed it once with 1 dab, some years ago, when the trail was a lot better.

paul

Posted by: paul haworth at September 1, 2006 04:33 PM

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