[Closed] Top 10 best descents you have ever done

Pierre Avoir, Chute De Bisse and Jackass in a oney, Verbier 8)
nan bield - lakes 8)
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 😛 😛
and for a local slant top to bottom on ranmore finishing with numbskull and jims hole

Also just remember
Windy Pass - The Chilcotins
Sexboy on Cypress Mountain (northshore)
7 summits - Rossland
Speedway - Verbier

Garrr! Speedway then the super tech switchbacks off the bisse. How could I forget that? Doh!

200 switchbacks in the Rhone Valley

Emosson down to Le Chable.......Doh!

10 is too hard!

And then of course there is the Lairig Ghru. It's not long but it is flowy perfection.

Oh oh oh - can I add valon Darby in Verbier on an autumn day?

Pretty much anything on the Trans Provence, oh, and the Mega's quite interesting too because of the variation in terrain over the length of the course.

Sad to see so many Lakes descents here.. I'm a native but never ridden MTB there 😥

you live in the lakes and not ridden a bike there!?

Must do Whiteless Pike some day soon.

Megavalanche Qualifier
then the Megavalanche
La Komatrautrail, Chatel
Swiss National DH
"Brendons" trail at Triscombe
French National DH
"SX", Chatel

Gah ! too many I don't know the name of...

where is brendons track in triscombe?
I love the steep tech stuff there but not sure if I have ridden that one.

When I look at all those, I think isn't life great, so many trails, so little time, I just wish the ones I have ridden I had the bike I have now, so I'll just have to go do em all again..

I only ever really got going on Crank it up at Whistler (still learning the ropes on a bit of a heavy old clunker bike) but I was lucky enough on the last day to follow a really good rider down and did stuff that looking back I must have been mad.

The others I enjoyed I've no idea what they were called, but like the other poster said if they downhill they're cool with me - I just love it.

Keep posting the pictures, it's damp and miserable outside and it turns my screen into a much nicer window to look out of.

Freeride Nick

When are you coming up to Jockland and we can show you some marvellous big mountain descents! 😀

Nan Bield is good sport when nipping off from High Street.

Fairfield Horseshoe on a frozen winters day in the snow is another cracker.

Jeez, there are so many good trails and so many more to discover. Roll on the hard frozen, snow free days in the mountains. Might as well make the most of my Ice Spikers!

Rusty Spanner - Bewick Moor Really?

It was an ok little xc ride but wasnt that impressed with it to be honest. Hardly this category.

Brendans trail is about a mile along the ridgeline.
Once you can see the Bristol Channel at the top, its a tiny trail in the heather on your left.
Ive got lost trying to find it every time i've been there...
Its the steepest, techiest trail i've ridden in this country.. 🙂

Hey Sanny

I know, I know...its on the radar - but always getting pulled to the continent where the sun always shines and the trails dusty!!!

just spent 5 days in Molini de Triora - 22,000m descended. Ace fun 😛
Highly recommended...

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I'm not sure I know the names of any more than a handful of descents. However pretty much all the downwards action I've done in Sierra Nevada knocks most UK riding into a cocked hat and I'd love to go back. Could be just the nice weather though!

Nick - I moved to Spain three years ago and have started riding MTB since then.
Done loads of walking and roadbiking in the lakes. One day....

I love my Scottish route's but the thought of riding here again has me drooling. South Mountain Trails Phoenix Arizona with Gnargnartours 😀

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My fave isn't there any more, the DH track at Nannerch 😥

Would struggle to pick ten but here's a few;

Fort William DH
The one from the top of the Chatel bubble back to the station just for pure speed and fun.
Top of Cairngorn back to Loch Morlich
Warton Crag near Carnforth for fond memories of riding it in my teens.
Pleney at Morzine is fast (a rondom clip off you tube, not me riding);

The bottom bit at Lee Quarry from the bmx track to the gate.
San Marino at Belmont before it got really rutted.

Trail 403 followed by 401 in CB. simply one of the best days of my life.
Not quite the same league but the Kessler run in fruita was a blast in the midsummer noontime heat. It's a nice and warm memory to me.
The descent from the back of clachnaben into Tarfside followed by The .
The Mounth descent into Glen Doll (from Loch Muick )
And I have a deep affection for the Glen Tannar descents
And hey, because it's true, the blue run at Glentress. 😀

The final descent coming off the back of the moon....
I'm not the best at bunny hopping but WOW did I get some air of that crater

The steps at the back of Rumbelow's on Stanley front street.

Dain_Bramaged - cheers going to try and find that.... 😯

Avoiding the Alps & Spain, cant be @rsed to remember gnar names given by English guides:

Starwars, Lungbuster and Little Verbier - Wye Valley
Limestone Link from Beacon Batch down to A38
Too many in Horner and Porlock Woods to mention, thanks to the local deers who dont bother naming trails
Rocks and Roots - Exmoor
Rocky Road - Mendips (for old times sake, but Badgers is now an alternative)
Golf Course descent near Rhayader - easy, but fast and fun
Dr Blackhalls
Grizedale tarn to Grizedale
Most of the rocky BWs in Grizedale Forest(Grandad etc, Fox, Devil's Thingy etc - not just Parkamoor)
Claife Heights BW to Hawkshead - happy memories of this summer's trip
Old Motorbike run - FOD (and tempted to add the new Verderers descent too.....)
Watendlath (as posted above)
Y Das
Knicker Trail and other Avon Gorge runs
Bourton Combe - for surprising me with it's very existance earlier this year
Weacombe (if I had to pick a Quantocks descent)
Cham-mini near Dursley

And Portal Rim, Moab, just to add one core run to the list.

In no particular order

Northern Monkey
BKB
Gun Bucket
Windy Willow
Mangrove Alley
Summer Lightening
Reggae Reggae (RIP)
Evian
Deja Vu
T1-T5
(some of the others are beyond me....)

Someone once said I should go farther afield..........

Resigning from my safe professional job just as the recession kicked in, it has been a pretty scary and prolonged descent ever since...

Carlos45 - surreys finest...
gun bucket ?? must know that as something else.

Avoiding the Alps & Spain, cant be @rsed to remember gnar names given by English guides:

Starwars, Lungbuster and Little Verbier - Wye Valley

Are gnar names only acceptable in the Wye Valley then?

😉

oh, i forgot about crug mawr, that's got to go in there.

GlitterGary - Member
The steps at the back of Rumbelow's on Stanley front street.

I'm surprised you don't mention Sandy Lanes, it's at the back of where you live now..

we even have a "vertigo" in Surrey now 😛

Snowdon Rangers. I want to do it again. Preferably in the sun, please.

Panoramic down to Chatel - green graded, but so much jumpy bermy fun it's silly. Goes on forever too.

Suicide Brake. fastFAST[b]FAST[/b][b][i]ROCKS[/i][/b]

Green that I can't remember the name of in Les Gets, goes from the top of the bubble lift. Loads of roots, dead fast and long.

Grandad, Dad and the Dentist (I think) near Grizedale somewhere.

The really fast, jumpy one on the Monkey Trail at Cannock.

The top bit of Innerleithen.

The one on the Jacobs' loop from Edale that's always chewed up by 4x4s and has a stream at the bottom.

The bit at Dalby that used to be a descent but isn't any more. It was only a few hundred yards long but it was by far the best bit. And now it's a climb. Sigh.

Cutgate. Especially in the snow. Or the sun. But not so much in the rain.

How many's that? I'm sure I've forgotten a ton.

God, not sure. All in alps/Europe.
Normally the last one I have done but...
La varda blew my mind the last time I did it but not the first time
New vallon d'arby.
The ultimate
La tourche crazy hike
Emosson for sure
Spanish inquisition made me fall back in love
Valloire and galibier
Probably sounds funny but I love erection section with variant into martigny.
Donkey darko tp.
Col des milles
However, Careless Whisper is going to be the one.
Funny how a lot of people say Nuthouse. Great trail but not top 10.

Walna scar, Coniston in the lakes used to be good. Well, it was until they turned half of it into a pavement 😥 let's just hope a few hard winters restores it back to its former glory.

The trail outside my house.

My old local trail

The SRAM track

Rockadillo (on my little bike chasing DHers 😀 )

Crans Montana Black run

Bored of posting links now

Funny how a lot of people say Nuthouse. Great trail but not top 10.

I know where you're coming from, but I picked it because it was the one trail I kept wanting to do again in Verbier - and where I felt my riding really start to click and improve a bit.

Many of my choices wouldn't make a collective top 10, but they're as much about how I was riding on the day as the actual physical trail.

I thought about picking La Varda, it was fun and I surprised myself with my riding on some of it, but it just didn't give me that buzz that my other choices did.

I think I'd want to do it again several times, and possibly in a one-er.

Actually I meant Jackass not Nuthouse..
Vertigo should really be in there
Careless whisper sounds interesting?

Jon's 200 yards, end of thread 🙂
OK go on then I also like
Ullock pike
Styhead-stockley bridge
Watendlath-frith wood
Newlands
Don Juan de marco (switchbacks)
moody french bastard
Nan bield
Parkamoor-satterthwaite
lawn mower (i think, FoD, now apparently no more)
Bit short but I quite like Rake beck

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Grizedale tarn to Grizedale

Ha! Newlands! Top bit of flow there.

Vertigo is always good value too.

Good to see Ullock Pike is getting lots of mentions. Rode it again in April. It was outstanding as usual.

Mealle a Buchaille is great for the views when you head down to Ryvoan Bothy.

So why have I not ridden Careless Whisper, Phil? Need to sort that next year!

I reckon the descent off the Ring of Steall will be on the list when I ride it. The video that singletrackbikes posted on You Tube is a cracker!

the Ring of Steall

Had this in mind the other week on your Munros thread! A few times now I've planned it but not done it for one reason or another. Clockwise looks the way to do it, but the steep climb and cable bridge/wade across suggest this is one that needs the height of summertime.

col de balme - Trient is a real cracker
Love the Dorenaz DH course as well

Sanny - sounds like Careless whisper is not for punters!!

Chakaping - sorry, Lungbuster isnt meant as a "gnar" description of a descent, it got it's name as it is a steep climb (but happens to be very good in the opposite direction). Sorry about the confusion :wink:!

Grizedale Tarn - I reckon the techie singletrack down to Grisedale from the tarn itself is about as good as it gets in England. Shame the higher section to the tarn itself has drainage ditch issues (or maybe I do, I really need to practice manuals and wheelies for next time).

I heard that Lawnmower has gone too, shame.

Going to the Lakes again this New Year and hoping the weather will be good enough to ride Ullock Pike when the crowds disappear. Interested in the Newlands route too, any more info?

No one's mentioned anything of High Street...?

I was only teasing you dagnamit.

Agree entirely about Grisedale Tarn descent BTW, did it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I don't think I've ever enjoyed riding ANYTHING as much. Just sublime.

Newlands.

Start at Buttermere. Follow the footpath up the valley. Descend back to the road where the purple house used to be. Head north for a short raod blast then return via Whiteless Pike. Great winter ride. Not too long (budget 5 - 6 hours) and great fun.

Angle Tarn from the top of High Street on a hard frozen or a summer's day....oh yes!

Aye, Careless Whisper sounds like a special trail. Still Phil said the same about 200 switchbacks and Magic Roundabout. Both are brilliant!

got a map agent? Don't know the area well and there's no rows to follow by the looks of memory map just fireroads

Angle Tarn from the top of High Street

Grisedale Tarn eh? What route? Down from Fairfield Horseshoe or St Sunday Crag? Looks promising!

Deepdale looks like an option too on the map but I've never ridden it. Anyone done it?

You know we mean Grisedale Tarn on Helvellyn DOnk? Not at Grizedale.

I think there's just one BW down from the tarn to the hamlet of Grisedale, near Glenridding.

high street figure of 8

Haweswater - gatesgarth - harter fell - nan bield - kentmere - garburn - ill bell - mardale - high street - nan bield - haweswater

a mans size day out!