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you can do pennals, then mis spooky and do hit squad hill, matrix / lombard street pie run and magic mushroom
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Thanks Steven
Ok, did the black today up to start of boundary trail then nipped down to top of spooky wood. *warning avoid spooky wood for at least 3 weeks.* Starting spooky woods, you get 3/4 jumps before it descends into fallen trees and digger tracks every 20ft. There is no warning at the start of SW to stop you riding, I wish that there was as it was awful. Super 8 and everything else was good, though appeared unmaintained. Maybe I look on glentress and compare it to its peak early/mid 2000's and wish it was at that higher standard. Maybe the price to pay for success with so many trails to maintain? Still great day out on the bike and that's all that matters.
Thanks drslow: I've decided I'm going to do the black and follow the official line. I guess the trucks and "lumberjacks" will be working tomorrow on the red and as the black diversions a few weeks back were really good (unless someone tells me otherwise) that's plan A!
please tell me the trails have been gritted at least.. fancy.. riding in the woods stopped by.. trees!!
totalshell
I assume you is taking the proverbial?
Some days recently it's been like the lumberjack and megatruck olympics. The guys are doing a job - I just want a quiet few hours out or I'll go next door to Inners.
Innerleithen might be a bit disrupted this weekend by the DH race- it's a sellout so the carpark'll be busy, full uplift etc.
I don't know if the diversions are still the same on the black but we did it the other week- there was a lovely diversion in place of Deliverance, not as good as deliverance but still lovely. The main difference was no easy escape routes.
Thanks Andrew - I'm going Friday. I was on the black 2 weeks back and loved it (maybe more than normal - is that possible?), I wondered if it had changed - sounds from responses and emails that its all still good!
. Maybe I look on glentress and compare it to its peak early/mid 2000's and wish it was at that higher standard
I agree, it really should be tarmacced, there are stones and dirt and everything lying all over the place. 😀
[i]Is spooky open from today or is the climb and descent still closed? Heading down on sunday and trying to decide if inners might be better... [/i]
But you can pretty much do both in a day anyway.
Last week I managed Innerleithen XC, then lunch at GT followed by two loops of the Red/Blue/Red from the bottom car park. Loads of fun including a couple of extra Baby Berms.
bigjim, was actually thinking there should be rose petals on the trail to protect my tyres 😉 I was probably fitter and faster back then which is why i look back with fondness.
If you let me know when you are going it can be arranged! I was only teasing. I would find it kind of entertaining to fill braking bumps with tarmac, or rose petals, and see if anyone says anything...
Forget Glentress for sustainable biking - the Pentlands are where it's at now! 😉
The 2nd post over here should answer your question - http://www.trailscotland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=2594
I was up at the Peel bike shop today and they said that SW is closed until the end of March at the earliest, apparently the felling trucks have pretty much flattened the whole trail and it will need to be rebuilt after the felling is finished. Deliverance is also closed but there is a diversion down a walking path instead. Looks like Inners is going to get busier over the next few months!
so.. for the sneaky fence jumper, what is still worth getting to just now?
I sneaked around spooky wood last week and it was gubbed. If they keep going with the felling the entire nature of the run will have changed. It's that old tourism versus timber argument again....
how about the bit after? (super g?)
anyone go today?
I sneaked around spooky wood last week and it was gubbed.
Thats an understatement, the felling vehicles have straightlined up the hillside in 3 or 4 places crushing the berms and tearing up the track on SW. Not a chance the damage will be repaired by the end of March unless they employ an army of trail fairies.
The black diversion is really torn up too, Inners is a much better option at the moment.
though the winter enduro downhill thing is on this weekend at inners -does that affect the red route at all?
It's the DH race rather than an Enduro this weekend, so shouldn't affect any xc stuff at all (other than maybe the very beginning and end)
While I appreciate that a working forest needs to take out the timber. Hasn't anyone noticed the £7 million or whatever it was they spent on the Peel? Do they actively want the new cafe to close down?
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though the winter enduro downhill thing is on this weekend at inners -does that affect the red route at all?
Nope, rode the red today without any problems