It’s great go have the old girl back – there’s a short bit that was pretty cool that’s been felled, it’s a bit of a shame, trail has had to be redone, where it used to be tight and challenging to maintain speed through its massively wide and smooth now (very loose too) then you’re back in the trees for a bit then a very long section which was sort of neither here nor there before, it’s just a ledge on the side of a hill now, I’m sure it’ll be hellish in bad weather but on balance, considering that’s had to be done there’s little to moan about and as a positive the rest of the bits that have been closed have really benefited from the ‘rest’ there’s more soil so it rides like a trial in the woods rather than a rocky TC ride, won’t last forever for but it’s nice.
Rode it today, exactly how I thought. The repaired sections just need time to bed in and weather so as to make them rough again, thankfully it’s opened during a period of dry weather so shouldn’t turn into a complete slopfest like when the Cafall opened! Was heaving round it so it should bed in really quickly.
The only downside is that it was far too busy on the freeride section to do laps, too many other riders doing the same thing 😀
Still, really good to have an old favourite back 8)