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Hi
I have been to Swinley a few times, but only been able to find the gully and Labrynth. I have heard there is so much more to be found. do you reckon you could give me some help.
Hi - yup, plenty more to find!
I think you've got 2 options really - just explore (you WILL find stuff), or tag onto some folks with local knowledge. I don't think the maps / gpx do the place a great deal of service. It's almost impossible to describe directions unless you're very familiar with the landmarks, but I'll try below...
I have found this on t'interweb...
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]Swinley map[/url]
It's a bit out of date - doesn't have Stickler and a few other trails I know about on it - but it's a decent start. If you've found the jump gully and labyrinth you're at the "Surrey Hill Reservoir" and "Expert Mountain Bike Area" end. If you head over to the west, the Crowthorne end, you'll find the Corkscrew and Seagull trail to join it to the middle, and in the middle the long trail is The Whole Nine Yards and Stickler and Tank Traps are in there too. With plenty of other lovely singletrack!
I'm sure there'll be folks happy for you to join them to show you round - I'd offer myself but a stinking cold looks likely to keep me off the bike this weekend 🙁
HTH & happy exploring!
How did that get here?... That's mine and Goose's old quick sketch map we made for MTBUK.co.uk (dead now) forum members and Swinley newbies.
nice to see it's helping people still...
It's a lot out of date as as we put that together in in 2005
I'll have a dig about in my old files, and maybe I can find some more swinley trail maps, as i had started plotting them out at some point...
This does not have everything on it but the more popular sections, I found it via Google some time ago.
On average I give a printed out version of this to one lost sole per ride 🙂
Or you can use Openstreet map. http://www.openstreetmap.org/
If you have a decent phone with GPS you can try viewranger in combination with openstreetmap which is good for navigation.
thanks guys, this is really helpful. i guess i will just try a bit of map following and exploring. hopefully i will bump into someone who knows the forest and get pointed in the right direction.