[Closed] Tweed Valley trails not part of Glentress or Innerleithen

Cademuir
Thornielee
Yair

Get the trail forks app

BB thx for super speedy response.
Will do as above.

Still interested in thoughts of others.

There's enough trails in and around Innerleithen without needing to ride the trail centre. As [b]BoardinBob[/b] says, trail forks app or do some strava segment exploring and you'll find loads.

Caberston (aka Golfie) and defo go over the inners TC side and ride Angry sheep multiple times. Tis awesome.

The mighty golfy.

But also, if you've not done so already, hit up the GT and inners offpistes, as far as I'm concerned inners red is only a convenient way to get to the good stuff now. I could genuinely spend a whole day just doing laps of Angry Sheep, it is close to flawless. And Five Year Plan into Mild Peril or Broon Troot then up Redemption and down the blacks and Ponds Trail, then back up to finish on the Fort has become a GT clasic I think. (throw in Zorro or B side if you want a little more)

Thornielee is fantastic too and adds a lot of different flavour to the valley, mile for mile I probably prefer Thornielee but the ease of access at inners and the golfy make them better for a visitor.

Angry Sheep is indeed a really good trail.

As Northwind says there's quite a lot of stuff at Glentress and Innerleithen that isn't part of the waymarked trails so it's worth checking that out if you haven't already. You may not think that doing Mark of Zorro or B Side counts as a "little more" while you're climbing your way back to the rest of the trails, though!

Aye, I've said before, I really need to get to know how to link all the good bits up at GT, must make the effort.

What chris L said , I love zorro but when you realise where you are after it does take the shine off a bit .
for the glentress day you could do worse than follow this years tweed love vallelujah route which ticked off pretty much all my favourite gt trails ( off and on piste )
The golfy is brilliant but you need to plan your route quite well I feel otherwise it can feel like you have spent all day grinding up that fire road

Did some of the off piste GT trails last weekend, not had so much fun in ages as I minced down trail fairy plan.

B Side! It's ****in B Side! Shit name but that's by the by.

(that wasn't you I bumped into up on the black was it Poah? I was on an orange remedy with a blown up shock, I think you might have offered me patches)

I had a gimbal on my chest and an orange met parachute. Don't remember offering anyone patches. Didn't see another soul after heading past spooky wood on the way to the mast (other than the stranger i cycled with down the trails with)

Zorro, spooky natural, sh sh sh then broon trout and then a wee ho chi min/ zoom/janets brae is a great day at gt.

So...um....may be a silly question but how does one go about finding these off-piste trails? Is there a map of them?

Trailforks as mentioned above.

stevemuzzy - Member
sh sh sh then broon trout

Sob. Though you nearly got Broon Troot right, I suppose.

A favourite of mine is to start at the Gytes, do the above trails already mentioned or whatever, but end up at the mast for a final descent of Carls Lane > Ho Chi Min > Zoom N Bust > Fort\Daves trail, drops you out with a short ride back to the Gytes.

I measured this on Strava and from mast to end of ZnB is 2.4 miles 😀

Did some off piste there last weekend using trailforks app - best trails i've ridden without an uplift 🙂

I entered the forest via a back road (Gytes?) I didn't see a soul for my 1st 2 laps of the masts

Just finished editing part one of my riding clips from the king and queen enduro. My second time riding in the area and its some of the best trails without a doubt. Love the stuff in the golfie area. Need to go back asap!

i ride loads of stuff in the valley, predominantly caberston, innerleithen, thornielee.

if you follow me on strava you should be able to pull a gpx from my activites..

https://www.strava.com/athletes/1535421

I'm hoping to head up to Golfie / GT on Friday morning for a few hours, just wondering how the trails are running at the moment? Anywhere specifically worth avoiding?

Still some forestry work at the golfie

Deliverance, the new one whose name escapes me and redemption climb closed at GT at the weekend past

Heading up there this weekend and hoping you guys can help me out.

Glentress - if we do Broon Troot which is the best way back up to the mast?

Golfie - As first timers looking to be broken in gently rather than broken, what is a good order to ride the trails in and are there any best avoided?
If the weather is poor all week or on the day would this order change?

Inners - Best way to ride up for a play on Angry Sheep if we have the energy Left?

We have downloaded the Trail Forks App.

Mugboo - Member
Glentress - if we do Broon Troot which is the best way back up to the mast?

Broon Troot spits you out onto the Redemption Climb. Partyway up that you'll get to small clearing where the trail turns left. There's a bail out path straight ahead and another trail coming in from the right.

Take that right hand trail back up to the fire road. This is the same fire road that Broon Troot, Deliverance and Hit Squad Hill start from. Turn left along the fire road, then right when you get to the bottom of Super G/top of Hit Squad Hill.

At that point you're on the red climb, so take that up to the top of Spooky Wood. Instead of taking that descent keep on the fire road and you'll get to the mast after not too long.

Thanks Chris, only worry now is which section of Redemption is closed..

You will be fine if you do Brown Trout, Redemption is open from the exit of brown Trout

Cheers Alan, great news

Had a great day a few months back doing the natural stuff and was my first proper ride on my Bird
But 3 times ip to the mast pretty much killed me
Had the worst cramp ever on drive home that I nearly jumped out my van driving along the M8

Inners - Best way to ride up for a play on Angry Sheep if we have the energy Left?

Do angry sheep before you do Cadon bank (last descent on red trail). When you come back onto the fireroad after doing Plora Craig instead of turning right towards Cadon Bank turn left and climb up the fireroad trailforks should help you with the rest of directions

Thanks cabbage84. Our current plan is to try a bit of Golfie then use the red trail at Inners to find the Angry Sheep fireroad then session that and the others nearby.
Worth taking in Alaister Lee's afterwards to get back down?

tagged for future...

thanks chaps!

Alister Lees is always a laugh

Going this fri/sat and rhis has saved me asking.

As well as Angry Sheep, don't forget Green Wing and New Bit which are all in the same area.

Then there's "Trail without a name" which pops you out on the Red Plora Craig just before the shortcut up to the corner.

What hedley said , trail without a name is really good. as your riding up the fireroad to angry sheep look out for a trail on your left and thats it

Feed the Pony. From the top. Just pure fun!

Trail without a name is called "Bye Driver"

Aye, bye driver is marked on trailforks.

Well folks I do hope you realise how lucky you are. I have decent riding round here in West Yorkshire but it's all over too quickly and we don't have that lovely chundery substructure.

We did a cracking GT off piste and on day yesterday (thanks Northwind) & a bit of Golfie/Inners off piste today. Amazing is overused these days but not in this case. Thank God I fitted a Shorty. Night folks, I'm off to dream about endless corners...

And thank you to your very talented and hardworking trail builders, someone has a good eye for a line!

*likes*

And as usual thank you to Nobeerinthefridge, I might even forgive you for Gasgale Crags 😉

Saw the one and only Danny Mcaskill out at Inners today. Wonder what trails he was hitting?

Bump, for later 🙂

So that who was holding me up, thank God I didn't shout Strava at him as I barged past!

Thanks for the posts on this thread!
Just come back from a weekend in the Hydro and with the trail names listed on here and trailforks, it all worked out beautifully.

This was the ride we did in the end.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1231468799

Fire road straight to Spooky Climb to Mast
Boundary to [b]Five Year Plan[/b]
Fire road to [b]Mild Peril[/b]
Up first bit of Redemption then fire road to [b]Broon Troot[/b]
Up the rest of Redemption to [b]Ewok Wall, Matrix, The Bitch, Ponduro[/b]
Up to mast again via a lap of [b]Spooky Wood[/b]
Down [b]Carl's Lane, Truon Chinh, Ho Chi Min, Zoom or Bust, Dave's Trail[/b] all the way back to the Hydro.

Thanks again!

Sounds like a big day out Alex!

As a general comment I'd say that the descent (Cool Runnings) you miss out by taking the fire road to the bottom of the Spooky Wood climb is good and the following singletrack climb is nicer than slogging your way up a fire road. In your case though the length of the ride might mean that the bit of extra time involved may have been unwelcome.

Good call ChrisL. 3 days in a row left me pretty beat, but that would have been a pretty good break in the fire road slog.

Cool runnings is a fast but uninspiring pedally trail with 5 bermed corners a bit more pedalling then two more at the end. it's only 30sec long.
You missed nothing special really. (unless you prefer climbing to descending).

gwurk - Member
Cool runnings is a fast but uninspiring pedally trail with 5 bermed corners a bit more pedalling then two more at the end. it's only 30sec long.
You missed nothing special really. (unless you prefer climbing to descending).

I like Cool Runnings and given that Alex rode Spooky Wood there's at least some evidence that he likes that sort of trail too. Personally I'd prefer it if Pennel's Vennel were still an option but I know the reasons that it isn't.

Also saving a few minutes on a climb by taking a fire road instead of some singletrack is a poor trade, IMO.

taking a fire road instead of some singletrack is a poor trade, IMO.

Tick! I really don't know off piste GT well enough.

Cool runnings is a fast but uninspiring pedally trail with 5 bermed corners a bit more pedalling then two more at the end. it's only 30sec long.
You missed nothing special really. (unless you prefer climbing to descending).

It's only pedally if you canny carry speed out if the corners.

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Heading down today to see if I remember what Oli and Felix showed me the last couple of times down there.( The white stick , mast of Zorro ,broom troot , angry sheep , green wing and linking up of carls lane into ho chi Minh , zoom or bust and then the janets brae spiders web of trails into Peebles for Forsyths pies 🙂 - I suspect I'll need trailforks to remember where all those start.....

After taking the newly built ibis for a spin at pitfichie on Sunday I feel Glentress as a place might begin to make more sense to my normally rambling round the hills on natural stuff mind.

As trail centres never seemed to have any flow on my xc bikes - they required man handling down 🙂

Lasagne pie from Forsythes Terry, double carbs!.

The white stick , mast of Zorro ,broom troot , angry sheep , green wing and linking up of carls lane into ho chi Minh , zoom or bust and then the janets brae spiders web of trails into Peebles for Forsyths pies - I suspect I'll need trailforks to remember where all those start.....

Good luck with that, two of them start in Inners....

Very good

Last time I checked it was still part of tweed valley.

Still parked up at GT when I rode them 😉

Fair enough, was surprised to see them in the middle of the list

They are worth the slog to be fair. The link trail back to the inners descent is good too. No idea what that's called .

Bit blowy out there, don't forget you're windproof :-).

don't forget you're windproof :-).

Looks like ophelia will have past by midday anyways, happy trails!.

Cracking wee solo day at GT - did all the bits I wanted the thanks to trailforks -

Jenny's brae to mast
Carl's lane
Boundary
B plan (that's for you northy!)
Mild peril (da baws!)
Up redemption
Broon troot
Ewok/matrix/bitch/ponduro (my fave!)
Back to mast
Carl's
Hi chi minh
Zoom or bust
Dave's (must've missed the fort)

Grand day, pretty benign conditions.

For anyone who stopped to help me on community service yesterday, many thanks. Only needed 4 stitches in the end. Will enhance the Halloween costume!

😯