Fancy doing a long ride tomorrow and i remember someone mentioning on here that there is a good off-road route linking the 2 trail centres, i can't however ever remember seeing this signposted on the trails.
Could someone give me some pointers how to do this please? BTW i've looked on the PDF maps and can't see anything there either.
Thanks in advance. 🙂
Jonathan
GT down towards Peebles via the link-trail, then up the old Drove Road and connect onto the SUW (near the top, past the forest) which joins up with Innerleithen.
b r - Member
GT down towards Peebles via the link-trail, then up the old Drove Road and connect onto the SUW (near the top, past the forest) which joins up with Innerleithen.
Sorry dude but that makes no sense to me....... i understood that there is a trail leaving the black near the top.
Is it signposted? what is SUW?
SUW = Southern Upland Way
Follow the black round to marker post 80, watch for a path branching off to the left through some trees. The next section is a steep push up the hill then you traverse the hill top pathway heading for Lee Pen (pointy hill) the path then heads down into the back of innerleithen firstly down a rocky descent then onto a very fast grass track that hugs the tree line (watch out for dog walkers) continue down the hill past the radio mast and this will bring you into the back of Innerleithen. You return is on the other side of the valley so its a nice circular.
Drop me a private email and I'll send you the map for the route covered in the tweedlove event 2 years ago. It also has a description of the route.
there is a trail, apparently, at the bottom of deliverance that goes down towards innerleithen.
In Kenny Wilson's mtb scotland book it is shown as the Gypsy Glen route I think.
Sorry I don't know much more than that
We tried a couple of months ago to find the trail from the black. We found the start but as it headed into deeper forest alot of trees had came down in the storms. Took bloody ages to lift/drag and duck our way up to clear ground. I'm not sure they would have cleared the trees because is wasn't on a recognised trail.
The gypsy glen route runs on the other side of the road. Its ok, done it from inners to peebles then the back road into GT.
[i]Sorry dude but that makes no sense to me...[/i]
Hard to explain, but if you check an OS map you'll see the routes - but its not a 2-minute route 🙂
1 GT top car park, aim west towards green section. Follow to Peebles.
2 B7062 across the river
3 2nd right (on an angle)
4 Continue as road ends, aiming for Kailzie Hill
5 Upwards to Kirkhope Law and beyond
6 At the end of the forest (on left), take the landrover track.
7 Bear right further down (still open moor)
8 At the river bridge follow road to B709 junction
9 Follow SUW for 1 mile on road
10 Follow SUW up hill until you meet the Innerleithen XC trail.
I always just go back to the carpark down to the river and along before following the back road. not the most exciting but gets you there.
BR - thats a long way round. Nice ride tho
there is a trail that runs along the valley bottom / by the river. Out of the GT entrances and straight on across the road there is a path down to the river - turn left when you reach the river.
On a slightly different note, we took the route from Peebles that joins up at the freeride park in GT. there must be something wrong with the sewage works in Peebles asthe smell was insufferably bad, we both had the boak and almost got to the dry heaves stage, truely horrible and it lasted for well over half an hour, at least on the way back (while still just as vile, like someone had detonated a dog poo bomb) it didn't last as long as it was all downhill.
Thanks all, that all seems a bit simpler which works for me! 😉
There are quite a few ways. E mail me and I'll detail for you