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We are planning to ride W2 on Saturday and then possibly skyline on Sunday. I want to be able to shorten the route if the legs don’t feel up to it.
Looking at the route map it looked like a good way to do it would be to follow the route until ‘On the edge’ and then cut back across the emergency route to ‘Handy Andy’ and then follow the main route until Glyncorrwg. So essentially it would cut out the loop on the other side of the valley which looks to be mainly fire road with one section of single track. Is that a good way of doing it and are they any big trail diversions which will make this difficult to do?
Yes you can, there is "fast Forward" but sounds like you like to go a bit longer before shorting the route.
I noticed that one, will have that as an option if the legs are really not liking it! I hope we can make it a bit further that that though.
Thought it was closed right now.
Ride that shortcut quiet often from On The Edge to Handy Andy. Its dead easy to find and also dead east to get lost if you don't know your way, there are so many fireroads in that area that all look the same.
here's a link to google maps.
http://g.co/maps/pkg7j
A is where On The Edge Finishes.
B follow the fireroad to B
C is where Handy Andy starts
Hope that helps
Thought it was closed right now.
all open apart form a small section of Grand Canyon that has had some serious groundwork. the deversion puts you back on the fireroad just before the best bit of the Canyon where the rockgarden is
greeble. Thats great, thanks. Does the diversion mean you miss a lot of good stuff or do you get back on the on trail before the rocky stuff
i was dissapointed with the Skyline trail as a whole although loved the final descent. Not sure i'd bother doing the full route in a hurry again but will definatelly do the final descent again if thats not affected by trail closures?
The majority of grand canyon is open you do miss the rocky section and the rest afterwards. which imho is the best bit.
it was so much better years ago when there were trees on handy andy, Granada and joyrider.
The final decent is a must. Everytime I ride Whites always ride back up and do that instead of doing darkside.
It would be amazing if there was a group of volunteers getting together to add singletrack between the existing sections of singletrack