Hi,
I am spending new year near newton abbot and teignmouth.
Could anyone please supply or link to some routes?
I do not have any satnav mapping software, so PDFs preferred please.
Thanks.

yep theres some good uns….

Issue 49 of the mag. All of eastern Dartmoor's best legal stuff is in there. One day they'll get round to publishing the routes in the online route guide.

Always worth posting on here if you want to join a ride. We're pretty disorganised but there's an outside chance that one of us might see your post and let you know where we're meeting.

just done last week end the royal thor path or something like that, it was very good, nice singletracks down to Princetown, easy navigation just following the briddleway sign. Weather was absolutely beyond pants, but i enjoyed it! plus a bit of mist coming as well, on top of the rain and the wind, that was just dartmoor full package. You are going to love it.

+1 for what TM said.

Slight thread hijack – Anyone up for a weekday ride this week or next? Or maybe a full moon night ride one night this week up on Dartmoor?

Full moon nightride possibly depends where…

Full moon nightride possibly depends where…

Redlake or Avon Dam probably.

Thansk guys, Just dug out issue 49 and managed to find 3 maps from old MBR mags. Anyone know "the hound" route?

IMHO the best riding in the area will start down at Bovey Tracey and will reach Hound tor as it's furthest/highest point before swinging back around to do all the rocky, techy, steep, scary, damn good fun stuff.

There's good stuff starting from the hound but it needs to have been a lot drier than it has been. That area is usually a summer/dry spell riding zone.

Cheers, any grid references for the steep scary stuff by chance?

It's mainly the Lustleigh Cleave area that you'll find the steeper riding. There's a couple of really top notch descents over that way that are both in the mag routes. Other stuff not to be missed is the Bowermans Nose drop which is on Hayne Down, Easdon Tor and the BW's that run from Manaton before joining one of the drops into the Cleave.

Thanks trailmonkey you're a leg-end.