[Closed] Top 10 best descents you have ever done

Anything in Crested Butte.
Monarch Crest, from the top of the continental divide, also Colorado. Natural trail that pumped and flowed like a purpose built trail, went on forever.
Pleney DH, for being the first proper DH run I'd ever ridden. We'll gloss over snapping my tibia on the "10%" section 🙄
Not 10, but heyho.

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When I rode down Llanberis path at 7am midsummers(eve) this year, having spent the night at the summit.
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Top of Flaine to Sixt

Does that follow the Cascades ski run?

Windsor trail in New Mexico and St Juan trail in California. Both about 12 miles of joy.

Dunno. All decents are good.

Cut gate's fun on both sides

Dore Drops/Blaka Moor

Skiddaw because it's long and very very fast.

Prodigal son, Punctured Lung, Petrolhead & Hysterectomizer in Bubion, Sierra Nevada.

I like the bermed bit heading into the visitor center at Dalby, not techy, just fun trying to maintain speed.

Chapel gate (before it was sanitised)
Cut gate
Cavedale (just for the challenge)
Then a few of the trail centre DH's, Glentress, Cwmcarn

+1 Ullock Pike

Did it a few weeks ago for the first time. I'll be back soon...

Pila to Aosta 11km run

Always the one that's right in front of my wheel, it's the only one that exists in reality 😀

That's the philosophy done..
Quantocks Weacombe Hill
+1 for punctured lung in Bubion
Frozen Heifer in Landry with Bike Village
garburn Pass at -4C ice and rocks all the way 😆

Oh no, now I'm looking at booking next years holiday.... so much for saving

The woods behind the Nationwide in Swindon

Not a patch on some of these exotic types but I like nevis red with a cut off onto the dh track. I wish I was rich enough for the big ones you fellas mention - they sound great.

Tibet down into Nepal.

Only 4.5 km or so...

The Whole Enchilada is almost all downhill. From snow and thin air down through forests to the desert. 26.5 miles.

Not sure I would manage a top ten but here goes in no particular order

Glentress Red / Spooky Wood + Super G
Glentress Black - Deliverance
Glentress Black - Double X + The Bitch
Arran - Clauchland Hills from the cairn west to the main road
Innerliethen XC route Enduro Trail plus Caddon Bank
Nevis Red - once you are passed the stupid boardwalk

ginger mullet - somewhere near verbier
toboggan run - verbier
rheola in the wet - wales
a run in the tokai forest - cape town, don't its name but it had baboons!
a trail on seymour mtn vancouver - again not sure of the name but was good becasue of the snow!
the brazilian - verbier
the hysterectomizer - spain
a whole load in les arcs mainly Ash's back country stuff
Innerleithen gold run (i think thats its name)
and for a local slant top to bottom on ranmore finishing with numbskull and jims hole

or

wedgie on pitch

the theme being i am rubbish at remembering trail names :o)

In no particular order:-

Snowdon Ranger
Cut Gate
Skiddaw
Cadair Idris
Helvellyn
Loughrigg Fell
Staveley - Three Passes
Macc Forest
Long Mynd
Jacobs Ladder

I haven't been to any in the Alps yet 🙁

I didnt rate Gargamel, cant remember why. Lack of flow iirc.

I'd agree about Gargamel, there's a few good bits but a lot of crap bits too!

Ride Don't Slide - Whistler
Hey Bud - Garbanzo
Original Sin - Whistler
Fort William DH
Chilcotins - BC
Mega Avalanche - Qual & Race runs
Cream Puff - Pemberton
Garbanzo to Whistler Village by the fastest route! (Started a T2R mini challenge 2 years ago to get from top to bottom the fastest by using official marked trails only) Ferkin scarey, but got it down to 11 mins :o))

Clearly Cockburn Woods, High Blantyre. You lot are delusional.

Cheating a bit as I can't choose between individual trails but-
Most of Whistler - both the groomed jumpy ones (A-LIne, Dirt Merchant etc) and the more DH stuff (Original Sin, Schleyer etc)
'Secret' loamy stuff on Fromme
The DH race run at Sunshine Coast
19th Hole, Squamish

Bit of a recency effect after an amazing trip to Canada last year. So I should also add -
Ben Lomond
The Old Man of Coniston (years ago, fully rigid with cantis a wooly jumper and walking boots)
The Surrey Hills
Some old favorites round Brighton
Some stuff near Crowborough 😉

Careless Whisper - Verbier 😀

Argh! I forgot Rock Star (I think) at Silver Star...

Sticks Pass is brilliant

Cut Gate descents. Good on both side (but Langsett slightly edges it)

Some cheekiness that I'm not at liberty to share in ***** and off *.

Snowdon Ranger I love.

Shooting Cabin descent on the hayfield side...oooh and Peep o'day.....ooh and far Phoside. All good.

Borrowdale in the Howgills

Martindale in the lakes.

Screaming mile in the peak.

All good fun. But in ****** is the best. 😉

I don't think the best one even had a name... So let's call it That Trail We Did In France Halfway Down The Mountain That Ended Up By The Water Tower Thing, On The Day Of Misery. Just stunning, that one...

Cairn O'Mount, Glenshee, The Lecht, Cabrach, Gairnsheil are all wonderful descents. On a mtb, possibly Gypsie Glen or Corbie Linn.

No particular order...

Grisedale Tarn to Grisedale, Helvellyn (actually this is number one ATM)
Pila to Asota "Freeride"
Magic Carpet, near Les Arcs
Double Header, Les Arcs
Nuthouse, Verbier
Porridge, Morzine
Super Morzine(?), Morzine
Leith Hill to Friday Street, Surrey
Sheepskull, FoD
Babies Heads(?), Grizedale

So many happy memories!

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Nuthouse Verbier.
La vada Les Arc.
Double Header Les Arc.
Lochnagar to Loch Muick.

Freight Train > Dirt Merchant > Lower A-Line is one of my favourite combos at Whistler 🙂 Crank It Up is the most fun though for sure.

In the UK, Minton Batch on the Long Mynd gets my vote I think.

From a wimpy jeycore pov:

Drum to Llafairfechan.
Dinorwic Quarry.
From Apedale Road over the top and back to Low Row.
Last bit of Penmachno.
Lady Anne Clifford highway, going north.
Bewick Moor.
Embsay Moor, over the road and through the fields to the Abbey.
Calderdale cheek.
Telegraph Valley for pure speed.
End of Llyn Crafnant back to Capel Curig, which scares the oxo out of me every time.
Llyn Anafon back to the little car park at Aber.

Many picked for the views.
All non tech.

+1 for Ride Dont Slide and Pila to Aosta
Also Khyber pass

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Mommoth, Ca. If you look carefully you'll see bikes on 1 of the loads of trails down..........I think the shortest way down was 4 miles the longest 45 miles..........

great thread, i'd consider myself not well travelled on a bike, but have ridden a good 5 or 6 of the alps descents above and a couple of the Spanish ones, plus a few more not mentioned - a long, rocky one in El-Chorro springs to mind. A lot of good memories

every-so-slightly off topic, but seeing as i'm off exploring Exmoor tomorrow, any suggestions for the next best descent to add to my list?

I need to ride more trails 🙁

Climach-X final descent is probably my favourite.

Cresta Run with Switchbacks in Bubion. 😆

Great trail

I would like to add the Tello descent near Lanjaron, Spain, to my list.

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Cresta Run with Switchbacks in Bubion.

Great trail

+1

Also the route from the natural park back into Bubion we called it silk panties nothing too exciting but so much fun and went on and on.

47 switchbacks was fun too

the cheeky trails in the wood just behind the house 🙂

My favourite in Whistler Bike Park, done as one continuous run:
Original Sin into Freight Train, a bit of Upper Easy Does It into Dirt Merchant into Golden Triangle into Lower A-Line into Hornet into Old School into Lower A-Line to finish on the GLC drop.

Then on the chair & repeat... 😀

Elephants Tail, Sierra Nevada, courtesy of Marco & Co at Ciclo Montana.

Top of Rotthorn down to Tasch in Zermatt, Switzerland.

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Top of Gornegratt down to Zermatt village.

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Both decents 90% singletrack with smooth switchbacks interspersed with rocky drops, going from 3000m down to 1400m.

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Top of dollywagon pike to grisedale
Descent above slate mines at elterwater
Arret de berrouir (sp??????)
matadora
Mega race course (as it was this year without 20 min snow plod)
Mega quali
Pleany
Another vote for Garburn in the Ice (Possible the best ever)
Watendleth to borrowdale
Flaine to Stix

And all the better ones I forgot about

magic carpet (mont jovet) - la plagne
vini vidi vici - bourg st maurice
any 1 of a myriad of trails at the white room - sainte foy
toboggan - verbier
the ridge from col de cou to champery - morzine
nan bield - lakes
unknown grizedale jaggedy bedrock bw - lakes
hunters tor and nutcracker - dartmoor
plague - dartmoor
weacombe quantocks

Toboggan - Verbier. OMG I'd forgot about that, ace descent followed by a swim in the gravel pits with some bikini clad skandi lasses someone knew, lift back up to Verbier for beer and pizza. Don't get that vibe down in Hayfield!

Ullock Pike then the climb and steep descent into the village under Skiddaw
Whiteless Pike
Angle Tarn (more a traverse but lovely)
MacDhui to the Hutchison Hut
Glas Alt to Loch Muick
Ben Lomond - a reliable favourite
200 switchbacks in Verbier
Grand St Bernard Pass
Col de la Possette in Chamonix
Pierre Avoir, Chute De Bisse and Jackass in a oney, Verbier

So that's 10 that spring to mind but loads more I could easily add. Rode some lovely stuff in Kananaskis in Canada that was terrific. Some great stuff in the Basque country too.

There's loads of stuff I've still to discover on my doorstep in the Highlands. The Ring of Steall looks to be a belter. I can't wait for the longer days to be back.

Actually, Carn a Chlamain last Sunday was memorable. Glorious winter afternoon sunshine and over 2000 feet of vertical on a narrow stalkers path. Rides where you descend in the setting sun are always good!

Balls, I need to add Ben Lawers to the list as well as Carn Ban Mor - always fun. Does it need to be just 10?

Sidewinder - Sunshine Coast BC
Gargamel - Whistler - more for the experience of riding it solo, and shitting myself at times.
Ladies Only - Fromme BC. Digger has done his magic and re-worked it in fine style.
Rio - Kamloops BC
Resurrectum - somewhere in BC...
Toboggan - Verbier
Heart Of Darkness - Whistler - just good fun.
Any cheeky sheep line on the Long Mynd.
Skull - Fromme BC
The Wrekin - Shropshire - on a rigid bike at 40mph for that Repack vibe!