but don’t ride round the mud as all that happens is the trail gets wider,
What if the act of riding around the mud moves the trail onto a drier route, rather than just widening it?
And why are the Pentlands so special? Are they a protected habitat? Fragile?
Btw, what is trail erosion? MTBers making trails wider and hillsides slipping? Or just a narrow sliver of trail becoming fractionally wider, or even diverting slightly from the original course? Are we talking about motorway sized damage here?
(I’ve seen the Pentlands from a distance, never ridden there, so I’m genuinely interested.)
edit:
nature seems to have it’s way – the soft stuff gets too hard to ride as it is so cut up, everyone avoids it, then a month or so later it’s ok again….
That sums up my experience of riding down here in Wales.