A bit of road and then the first bridleway:
Higher up it becomes an access track to a couple of houses and was quite icy, complete lack of grip on that so had to walk about 100m until it levelled off.
Some more road led to the next BW.
After this we had a few options and ended up going for the shortest one. In the event this was probably wise. A bit of hoiking the bikes over a gate wrapped with barbed wire (the area got really popular during lockdown plus there's no BWs on it)
The next bit is normally rideable but the snow had drifted in so a bit of hike-a-bike was in order. Given the state of that I wasn't sure if the following bit would also be drifted in as it was in the lee of a stone wall but it was mostly rideable for the climb and level sections then fine on the downhill bit.
At the end of this is a lane that regularly ices up so we walked it. Didn't stop me from falling over, fortunately I landed exactly on my front tyre so a soft landing! The last bit of off-road is legal, it used to be one of those silly BWs that just stopped in the middle of nowhere but the last field has been upgraded from footpath.
A steep climb up the lane in the above shot then left along the track by the wall on the skyline.
Assuming you're in a low enough gear to have some engine braking - if not, you're into serious kick-the-pedal-through-the-floor cadence braking like fatbikephil says. Easier said than done though, neither option comes easy.
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