Some really good stuff some can be techy and steep. Best circuit would be to find a route from the muckle toon adventure festival. There's a fair bit climbing but it's all rewarded.
In fact I think I'll head on the next dryish day.

It's not far from me, I've ridden a few of the trails during and before the MTAF event. It's good, aye. Proper natural stuff, none of yer trail centre shenanigans.

Our designer at work is a local and moonlights as chairman of the MTAF event so anything you want to know, ping me a message and I'll happily pass it on.

The Eskdale is the hotel of choice if you were staying over btw.

Thanks folks, I like it natural and steep. Is it all fairly obvious to find? Anything not to be missed?

There's nothing officially waymarked, so it can take a bit of funding in places. From what I remember the trails are spread over the four big hills surrounding the town. I'll see if I can dig you out one of the previous year's MTAF routes, that would be a decent starting point at least.

Cool, that'd be ace. I have trail forks and have been looking at strava. looks like there quite a bit just figuring out the best way to link it all together. Any top tips for trails that must be ridden?

This was a couple of years ago, so some of these trails might have either changed or gone, but it's a good start.

Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/FnvUEdhdl2

I'll speak to Paul tomorrow and see what the current craic is trails wise.

Yeah trailforks and that Strava allow Access to the stuff that I know. You would need to do a couple of little loop rounds to do all the trailforks stuff.

<-- is the place to ask, I'm told. There's also a really good chance one of the yokels on there would be more than happy to give you a bit of a guided tour too.

They're a friendly bunch. Most of um!

This is interesting. I used to go near Langholm (Bentpath) on holiday as a kid, would love to ride trails round there. Will check out the Stravaz.