@@martareitmajer thanks for the comment. 👍

@@dinis4677 I'll let them know at the wildlife park that they have the wrong sign up. Cheers David 👍

Nice one ! sounds like a nice relaxing couple of days 😂. I didnt stick to the official c2c as i added a section on to see Honister pass and Derwent water but am happy to send you the gpx if you want, good luck.

@@IndigoBikeTouring perfect nice one mate! Your more than welcome to join 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️

Do you have a email address or some method of sending?

Why not?

Cheers, if you liked the Trans Pennine Trail then another good one is the c2c Whitehaven to Sunderland its shorter distance at 150 miles but the elevation is much more as it goes threw the Lake District and North Pennines . Thanks for Watching 👍

Al av a look cheers mate ready for a new challenge 👍

Thanks for watching, i used a garmin edge 830 for mapping and to record my route with the strava app on my phone as a backup.

Thank you! Cheers!

Thanks for the comment, Yes im happy to share the GPX although beware there is 2 sections where you have to push/scramble for about 12 miles

Self made route, happy to send you the gpx file if you want

Thanks for watching. It looks like its had a good amount of work done there in the past. Id like to go back in better weather and have a good look, there was quite a few tunnels to explore and there must be gold there , This slate quarry is sandwiched in between extinct volcanoes from snowdon and glyderau and in the surrounding area there is a couple of copper mines.

I thought the same during recording, i don't think geology is his favorite subject.

Im not sure if its Pyrite or Gold, yet. Tried doing the copper scratch hardness test but the pieces are too small so was looking for a white porcelain tile to try the residue test. All the samples i took were from exposed quartz veins from close to the summits at around 800m-900m so if it was Gold id expect only the very fines to make it that high up the mountain. It does look like it has squarer edges like pyrite but im not sure if that's because it has been trapped in the quartz and hasn't been exposed to erosion like the panned gold. Will update after i do the test.

I found a source I thaught was Obsidian but after research it was the waste from a old steel works called Black Slag stone haha. The rarest thing I've found is Blue John, apparantly the only place in the world it's found is Castleton in the Peak District.

@@IndigoBikeTouring aye nice, cool find. thought I'd Found obsidian up leadhills ,was slag also. Maybe did find one wee bit of obsidian or possibly jet once,no idea were it went because I made the mistake of leaving it on the mantle piece,n my stuff gets tidied up to oblivion 😖

Thanks for the comment, i had just bought my camera before this and hadn't yet done any filming so i only took pictures but have been thinking about doing the route again and filming it this time. I wrote a blog about the journey what goes into a bit more detail if you are interested indigobiketouring.blogspot.com/2022/09/blog-post.html Thanks, Jonathan.

It seems a mild winter so far, we haven't had a ground frost yet. Thanks for the comment !

Thanks! Id recommend going past Crummock water, Buttamere and Honister pass then past Derwent water as a diversion. It doesnt add much milage on but the views are far better. It only misses out whinlatter forest section but you can see part of it as you rejoin the C2C after Derwent water.

@@IndigoBikeTouring Cheers for the info...👍