And no, I have not forgotten about the planned STW ride next month. I'll be putting up a PSA about that early next week. 🙂

The ride was mostly on Waverly Downs near Cheddar and the owls are are Lillypool farm cafe on the Shipham road.

Was beginning to get very excited by those pics unitl I saw pic no. 4 🙁

Buzz – I don't do mud cos I'm a summer rider. Can you please arrange for the sun to be shining and have the trails all dried out for me? Thank you so much 🙂

I like birdies!

The sheep track on the side of Wavering down still looks pretty firm.

Apart from the usual stodgy places and a veneer of slop, the going on mendip is still generally firm ATM.

Not very clean riding though.
😕

buzz correct me if i'm wrong but you aren't planning to get across to wavering are you ?

"Not very clean riding though"

Which is why I'm currently riding the ol' hard-tail with the crud-catcher 😕

CG: pic 4 incident was very amusing. The bit of track before that was dry and fast and I was pelting along then I saw the mud patch and it had that look about it…

so I just tucked down and hung on until I stopped, dismounting neatly and was amazed that the bike stayed standing up! We won't be going there.

ScienceOfficer is spot on: the usual (mostly avoidable) stodgy places and just a veneer of slop to slide aboooooot on. I test-rode Santa's Grotto yesterday but it was nasty-slippy. But apart from the run-off, everything else on my expected route was fine, just damp and a bit slippier and slower going that when it was baked hard in June.

OF: hadn't planned to go over wavering as it's a bit cut off from Black Down – never mind.