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After watching far too many videos from Squamish, I'm wondering if there are any specific places in the Tweed valley where there are more "freeride" style lines. Looking for big jumps, drops, etc.
I've ridden Golfie, Yair, Innerleithen, Glentress but haven't come across any big jumps or "gnarly" drops. Any tips of where to go hunting?
Thanks
I found plenty of big jumps and gnarly drops at those locations.
This may all be relative though, try getting worse at riding and then they will all look really hard again?
Just to scale "big" is anything on Matador remotely close?
There's quite a lot of small stuff, that can be made big. Like, matador drops if you do it like I do it are really not big at all. But if you properly send them then the long runout makes them easily twice the size. Berm Baby Berm has features that most people ride as rollers but when hit right become doubles, there's one that supposedly was designed to be triple-able but I've never seen it done. And probably loads of other similar things that are obvious to people with the skills, but which I've never even noticed.
I reckon there's probably some pretty big stuff tucked away in quiet woods but also that the people who know, know not to share because of how busy the valley is.
Nothing on Matador is what I would consider big (even at speed). I would say that the "grass" drop in which Cathro did is pretty gnarly if that's a good reference. I can't find a video of it now but it's quite steep in person.
I reckon there’s probably some pretty big stuff tucked away in quiet woods but also that the people who know, know not to share because of how busy the valley is.
I expect this is the case which makes it hard to discover, by design I suppose. I live in hope that a benevolent local can guide me somewhere special one day. Or maybe I'll just make a wonderful discovery. That's definitely happened before in other riding areas I've been at. Off the map, off strava, and some incredible features.
There definitely is, stumbled across one by accident many moons ago. You’d have to be very (very) handy to even try them as there’s a “normal” Tweed Valley trail that suddenly has a sizeable gaps over trees and such thrown in. Unfortunately it was such a long time ago I couldn’t even give directions to the start. I believe these trails are kept as “local trails for local riders”