just wondering if any of you fine fellows have been roosting in the valley, much ice on the trails? thanks.
-6 this morning, and still well below now
There was a couple of inches of very icy rutted snow past the top of Pennel's Vennel/Cool Runnings at Glentress on Wednesday night and the temp hasn't been above freezing since.
Fine under the trees though.
Ok just looked at tweed valley bike patrol fb, snowy.
PS. Ta
Glentress Glacier in full effect on the manmade trails, looks like. #Fatbikeduro at inners/golfy for me I think
Would you want your ice spikers for that then NW, for the compacted snow? Or still soft enough for regular tyres 🙂
Ah who knows. But my trailbike's ****ed so I'm declaring it fat minion conditions regardless. If that doesn't work, I'll just pretend I'm having fun skidding everywhere.
Ice/snow on anything exposed above about 150m from valley floor but in the trees of the golfie/Inners its pretty mint (for Nov in Scotland).
Any change today for tomorrow? Thinking Inners rather than GT
The snow's very hashed up at GT with refrozen ruts, some of the roads are awful- all quite charmless, hard going, but the trails below the top car park are pretty much fine and the offpiste further up is clear (pretty bloomin wet, mind).
Looking at people's facebook, golfy is apparently easily doable up to the reservoir though I'm not sure if that means any of the upper trails are practical. Looks like less snow over on traquair. So I'll be down there tomorrow I guess.
Just thought I'd resurrect this as I'm up that way this weekend - any point going up Glentress or is it still frozen solid?
+1, planning on a weekend up there. GT sat afternoon, Inners/Caberston Sunday.
+10c today
Would imagine getting very good on the loamy stuff for the time of year, been dry this week, think i will be over at some point.
Yes, we were out last night (around Selkirk) and surprisingly dry, but we've had no rain for over a week.
Inners uplift day last saturday, was -3, tracks were absolute mint.
I think Angry Sheep may be my new favourite track ever.
Last run for me recently that or Green wing, chose the latter... very good flow...next time.
I think Angry Sheep may be my new favourite track ever.
has it dried out a bit or is it still like snowboarding?
Up there tomorrow for a weekends mtbing for my birthday so will see how much time we have to get out riding in the afternoon and post back.
And a slight hijack if you're up for weekend and want a pint while watching an old bloke murder classics I am doing a solo gig in County Hotel, Peebles Saturday at 9.
Bigjim - it was muddy, but incredibly grippy, really bizarre.
I was up Glentress yesterday and done most of the black,off piste stuff and it was fine,usual muddy mess at start of Hush hush brown trout etc but the actual trails were proper grippy only bastard was the 3 climbs back up the the mast to do the best trails,Legs like jelly today
Some of the guys where up the Golfie last night and said it was running well apart from two otb and a face plant on Nae Spleen
'Flat White' and 'Community Service' at Golfie were perfect yesterday.
I had intended riding the stuff down to Walkerburn as well, but everytime I got to the start of Flat White I could not ride past it 😳