[Closed] Summer and winter rides

Very much so, where I live is yukky sticky Ridgeway clay in winter to the North, it's just generic mud to the south, the south also has some riding that stays drier overall.

No

This year I refuse to acknowledge Winter

i ride steeper areas the wetter it gets. drains better. also no one else rides these trails much so its peaceful and the trails arnt destroyed quite so bad.

flat = swamp locally. stanmer can be quite unpleasent to ride in winter unless you know the quiet trails

Sort of, I ride 'winter venues' year-around, but there's a few places that summer only, they're just bogs in winter, you'd spend all day grinding away in axle deep mud going nowhere fast and wrecking the trails.

Dont really get seasons here, its either too hot to ride, to wet to ride or good to ride.
The trails are kind of immaterial, though when hot we tend to stick with short shuttle based DH trails.

Live in Devon and try and keep higher and rockier in the winter as it drains better and there simply is less mud around. So that's Dartmoor, Q's and Haldon. Have to be careful around Exmoor as this can get really heavy with mud.
Woodbury is a delight in the summer. Classic heathland riding. Rode there on Sunday and it was bad, really hard work. A canoe might have been a better form of transport. Will be "resting" Woodbury until next April!

datchworth area always drains better than hertford/broxbourne woods and that means the brox stuff dont get ruined as much too 🙂

Aston hill -summer
Chicksands - winter

I ride pretty much the same summer and winter, but certainly if I wanted to avoid mud I can pick areas that hold up better. The MoD lands around Farnborough-ish way for example hold up better than Surrey Hills. Within the Surrey Hills there are differences, such as Holmbury is drier than Pitch & Winterfold. Leith is a bogfest in many places, but not generally along Summer Lightning which is more all weather. The clay soil on the north downs side rules it out when it's just been raining or very saturated, much the same as Aston Hill, but give it a dry week in the winter and it's rideable.