>BADGER.BRAD
I did or have with an old mate.
Years back.
You need to take the Ranger Track I think as its the widest and easest BUT the longest.
When yuo get there IF you do it - do this:
Put the bike in 1st gear
and leave it in that gear !!!!
Its a mountain of massive severity and a long long long uphill !
Take some spare gear, food, emergency mountain stuff and the likes as you will be right in the shoot/thick of it.
Its something you dont do lightly - lets put it that way as im sure a few others will say also.
Have a couple of rest stops. Pace yourself - and if you get a good day the all the better !!!
All the best if you do it Brad
: Talking of me and when I went;
I went up on a Sat morning - trained to L.pool then got picked up but on the way I was thinking 'what the hell am I going to do this for'
yet that was the bit that was thrilling actually
When we got there it was misty and if its like so then the chances are its gonna be whole lot worse as you go up or just in the clouds so your gonna get wet as clouds hold water...
Dont forget as you go up it gets colder 2'c for every 1000feet/300m i think but i'd reduce that for the reckoning of safety as gloves as handy beleive me !
The END bit: we got as far as the track the goes beside the railway (which you'll see if you do it) - the bit that runs along the ridge that leads to the top 'precipice' (this bits very exposed)..and the conditions where chronicly bad
COLD, WINDY, WET so as we where close enough to the summit and the conditions where on the border of dangerous we turned back as we didnt want to risk any further state of danger.
Its a serious mountain and a very formidable oponent to surmount.