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Thinking of a trip to hamsterley on Thursday, how’s the riding lately?
Tuesday and Wednesday are supposed to be dry so hopefully not too wet.
A chap I spoke to at the weekend said he went last week and there were fallen trees everywhere, he also moaned that the forestry commission were busy selling mince pies rather than focussing on clearing the trails …..🤨
They have lots of access roads to clear before they can clear the main trails and reopen them. K-Line has a reputation for breaking collar bones and it's a long way from the car parks to evac someone from there.
Off piste trails are mostly ok but same warning applies.
Haven't been recently, just repeating from local groups and fora.
I've been up a few times since the storms and pretty much all of the sneaky, west of the Grove car park, down both valleys, is fine. So if you know your way round them you can still string a good ride together.
Seems to be a lack of updates from the forestry about the red and I didn't bother riding much of it so can't comment.
Was there on Saturday but only for a quick one. The whole of the “black” trail is open. Which is the trail centre loop i normally ride minus k-line, transmision etc. I’ve seen on some of h TV e groups that k-line and transmission are clear but nitrous and accelerator are blocked still. Officially that whole are is still closed so proceed with caution.
K-Line has a reputation for breaking collar bones
How so? It's more undulating, banked, and jumpy than the others... can't think what'd catch you out unless you rode it blind flat out.
The FC have had quite a bit of work on! There were no need for updates, the forest along with many others was shut until told otherwise. They updated when the black was open and now they have cleared the top of the red (although unclear if OK to use from today as says the weekend). This post says it all and points out one riders stupidity at trying to clear some off piste, good way to try and get that all closed down! (Post is a bit OTT mind..)
K line has one jump which kicks you badly, I had a near pants filling nose dive off one. I also recall that it and a number of the other trails suffer from sitting water in the bottom of sections like that which is often ice this time of the year, that's probably what causes the most crashes