The boys were riding this past weekend and no trails had yet been affected. Thorny is my favourite place in the Tweed Valley, my type of riding – steep, tight, techy, trialsy, wild. If it gets lost to us I’ll be gutted.
If I were you, knowing what I know, I’d bloody well go! The trails are all on strava. You climb up the road from the car park, staying on the main forest road as it snakes up the hill. Just as it starts to roll down again there’s a footpath on the left. This is the main access to most of the trails. Once you turn in and start the push/ride up you can go right at the fork or straight on. Easy to find stuff.
The left hand side of the hill as you look up has the most technical stuff. Big kudos to Greg, Graeme and the boys for building some excellent trails on that there hill. I hope they don’t lose heart if things get lost. If the place were closer to me I’d build a spiders web of trails on every inch of it as it’s the perfect hill for trails (rock, rock and more rock, some mud here and there, then rock).
