The Wrynose (Rhino) Pass

[Mikefirefighter]

I did a route the other week with the Mini Club and just did it again on the GS.
Much much better on a bike.


Wrynose Pass climbs steeply from Little Langdale in a series of brows and sharp bends runs thought the bottom of a large valley and onto Eskdale.

A google search will bring up no of flowery descriptions of the route. On a GS is just a hoot start to finish. The big twin is right in its element. I was with my mate Mark on a Suzuki GSx600F. He was twining about not being on a mountain bike! Very amusing.

Anyway fully recommend it to anyone planning a trip near this area to try it.
And to top it off there is the a little brewery pub at the end (forget the name) selling a wonderful pint.

 

[Mr K]

Pub: The Old Dungeon Ghyll?

 

[Mikefirefighter]

No thats not it.
Ill have to look it up now.

 

[EggChaser]

I was up there a couple of weeks go - slightly worse weather though - boxer engines love showing off torque out of the harpins been over it on the R1100S and the R1200GS now

 

[Mikefirefighter]

There was a fella on a black GS there at the same time.
Was it you?

Nice pictures Egg I only had my iphone on me with its weeny 2Mp camera.

 

[sutty]

pub on the pass

hi mate i am from the nw area, the micro brewery was called the woolpack as in emmerdale cracking real ale shandy too,all the best sutty

 

[original_concept]

There was a fella on a black GS there at the same time.
Was it you?

Nice pictures Egg I only had my iphone on me with its weeny 2Mp camera.

nah.. C'est moi. I just knew it was someone off here .

I was returning to the NE after hacking around North Wales eariler that morning/previous night and decided at the last minute to have a looksee at Hardknott.

Uhm.. I gotta 'fess up to having performed a very shaky u-turn on the hill though... having stopped at the steep bit (east to west, before the tight-hairpins) and rueing a lack of momentum, the pannier weight at the back, being far far too tired, needing a wee, cursing my short legs plus visions of my bike sliding down back the hill by itself was all too much. That's enough excuses for now!

Gotta admit, I'm no off-roader and done most of what the Alps/Pyreenes/UK has to offer with any bother [1] but seeing Hardknott did make me do a double-take and think "WTF, that's the steepest excuse for a road I've seen".

Ah well, I did enjoy the empty road back (passing another GS with a pack of R1s attached) to the A595 then down the wonderfully surfaced A593.

I watched you both ride up the pass with ease and thought, ya plucky bastards

All in the all, the Wrynose/Duddon valley was impressive, even from my low view point!!


[1] doing the Stelvio (down then back up) in torrential rain on a VFR (overtaking cars/GSs) after a day's riding with 4/5 Swiss mountain passes prior was stressfree in comparison.

 

[g.s.john]

up there 11-13 of sept staying in the holly house hotel in ravenglass where i might have to drink beer,i know it's a b@stard

 

[Mikefirefighter]

lol

Hi Consept, I thought you had been over and back again!
Its not as hard as it looks the 1200GS wasnt bothered at all by it. I was laffing all the way especially down the other side. Im going to do it again this weekend with the missis on the back just need to get her to hold on to me and not the frame.