Then there’s the warp speed run down to Trendelbere through Houndtor Woods, Hayne Down past Bowermans nose and many more. I’m with Trailmonkey, there aren’t many other places I’d rather ride!
I managed to find both of those last week – excellent trails. I then dropped down a nasty landrover track to the bottom of the valley below Houndtor woods and got fairly miserable. Because of time constraints I wasn’t able to ride Lustleigh properly, just a bridleway on the west side, before time trialling back to Bovey Castle before my wife called out the emergency services!
trailmonkey – Member
@yunki,
the last shot is hookney tor. it’s the stone road that comes down from the tor top to meet grimspound. you can just see the pound over shiny’s shoulder in pic 3
I thought I recognised Grimspound. I must have missed that trail by 10s of metres but I was also going in the opposite direction, climbing up the hill.
I thoroughly enjoyed my Dartmoor rides last week. Nominal plans are that we’ll be back in October so I’ll be able to finesse my route then…
On the way home I did stop at Haldon and rode the red and black routes. Obviously there must be better stuff there as the car park was full and I saw nobody on the trail at all. The trails were very disappointing I thought, especially after the ‘natural’ stuff I’d been riding all week. I also have to admit to being puzzled about why anyone would load the car up to drive to Haldon when they could go a bit further and ride Dartmoor.
Anyway looking forward to riding there soon, and maybe I’ll persuade my riding group to do a long daytrip down to Dartmoor….