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Gary_M - Membermmm I take it you've not ridden on ice very often then? You can't brake, you can't steer, you can't put any power through the rear wheel and you can't shift about on the bike.
I ride on ice quite a lot, and I cna break, steer, pedal and shift around. But then I cheat 😉 taktaktaktaktaktaktak
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Hi all, I had planned to be up at Glentress on Tuesday. Would appreciate it if anyone with local knowledge could let me know what the current trail conditions are? And I don't have the superior ice riding skills of some of our resident experts. Any local info would be much appreciated, cheers
I think I will be down on sunday or monday. Glentress is always a weird one because it gets ridden so much, so sometimes you end up with a compressed glacier of snow and ice even after all the ground around is thawed, but equally sometimes you get a perfect path through otherwise deep snow. It was beautiful riding up as high as the buzzards' nest last week then very quickly went to hell above that.
Trails at Afan today were running well (NO SNOW) and the trails at home (Swinley etc) are running well aside for the regularly drained bits. Surrey hills should be drying well too. Little if any snow in evidence anywhere that I have seen so clearly SNOW IS NOT EVERYWHERE unless you live in the frozen north.
Interested to see the Malverns recommended as somewhere to ride by the OP. Malverns are completely cack at the moment IMHO - not enough snow to ski, but plenty enough (and lots of ice) to make riding not very much fun and unicycling nigh on impossible.
Cheers Northwind, weather forecast suggests it's going to warm up slightly so fingers crossed
Peaks are as mixed as you like - anything between walls will be drifted (was riding at wall top height this morning!).
Where it's melting it's very soft.
Still a hoot, just more ride, push, carry, ride, push, carry - repeat as necessary.
Any particular good peak routes at mo? Ps. I hate a shit snowy descent after pushing up