Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

60mm stem made it a little harder to keep front end down on the real steep inclines but that's partly down to my skills not being what they once were... Just need to work on my technique.

Your seat is also quite far back and the bars are pretty high too ( although obviously before fork sag ), both of which can't be helping you on steep uphill stuff.

I can appreciate you might want the bars set high for super steep downhill sections of trail, but do you have particularly long femurs?