Planning on going down on Sunday so thought I’d check re snow/ice/rideability status. Other option is cathkin braes which I believe is completely snow free.

cathkin is completely snow free, glent isn’t nor will be for another 2 weeks i would guess

Is it rideable?

judging by the rangers comments andy, No !! stay away . 6″ above buzzards

http://www.trailscotland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=5486%5D

Wow good link. Cathkin for the first time since the course build it is then. Thanks radoggair

Cathkin will be snow free because i am not going there on Sunday.

3 Trips there in the last month, snow and/or blizzard conditions every time.

Perhaps in July i will get to ride on the actual gravel.

The tunnel is in and ongoing trailbuilding towards the wind turbine.

Oh I thought it was finished? How much is completed then % age wise?

Last week there was good riding from the buzzard’s down- zoom or bust barely ridable in places but the red, blue and fort stuff all nice.

95%, there building a wind turbine just now so about 300m is missing, apart from that its all done. There’s easy to follow trails around wind turbine to get you onto the trail. Note: when you get onto the trail head under the tunnel right to left and follow the trail that way. If you go over the tunnel into the trees your going the wrong way. You should go under the tunnel, back up a climb ( about 10metres) then head sharp right down a rockyish trail. Remember this and it’l make sense when you are there. Oh, and once in the car park head go towards the BIG commonwealth sign. trail goes right from there. This took me 20 minutes to understand which way everything went

Cheers will try and remember that!

Still not looking any better – http://www.trailscotland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=5124&p=58035#p58035

We went there yesterday, sort of thought there would be snow and read the rangers report, but still went regardless.

Alarm bells should have been ringing when the car park on an easter sunday had all of about 15 cars in it!!

The snow started almost straight away, but was only 1-2″ and well compacted & grippy until the other colours split away leaving just the red. To begin with it was fine & enjoyable, looked like a few hundred bikes had been through, but as we made our way up the climbs it got deeper and more lethal, one person dropped out after it took us all about 10 minutes to navigate down 1x 100m ice chute, which was probably the wise choice!.

The rest of us carried on regardless, the trails became less and less well trodden until it looked like there had been maybe only 2 or 3 bikes through before us since it had last snowed. ANd the snow was in the 5-10″ range.

Very hard going, and took us 4.5hrs to get around the red. But spooky woods (and esp the bit below it) was still very good, lots of almost fully flat on the ground (and sometimes on th ground…) cornering going on, but crashing was fun & comfortable.

Would suggest its going to be worse as more people ride teh upper sections turning them to ice chutes until it melts fully (maybe 3-5 days from now?)