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cant remember the name of the trail but It was in East Burke in Vermont USA. Brilliant trail would have been better on my bike rather than a hire bike!
I think the Lairig Ghru descent into Rothiemurchus is mine :
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I love Mushroom Pie at glentress, I wish I could name a cool "natural" trail or something harder or more impressive, but this little diversion is absolutely beautiful, it flows like nothing else I've ridden and if you get the pumps right you almost do the whole thing without a pedal stroke. Nice wee balance beams as well. Just lovely, good for the soul 😉 And then you reach the end and discover you've only descended about 20 feet, and you can get back to the start in 10 seconds, so I do laps 
northwind= sweet!
its about the size of the smile after mate
There is a really lovely bit of singletrack that someone has cut down to one of the car parks at pitmedden which I love.
A trail leading down from Schwarzsee near St Wolfgang in Salzkammergut, Austria.
Hungerhill Lane, Holymoorside (pre-sanitisation)
Stone Edge Quarry, Lower woods, Chesterfield
Bole Hill, Wingerworth, Chesterfield
Three trails which have never been matched for intensity (probably something to do with age and not having broken collar bones at the time)
This summer I've been really loving Pipedream at Les Arcs.......
Caddon Bank at Innerleithen is still right up there too.
Two excellent choices. Pipedream is still burnt onto the back of my retinas. Off to Inners the weekend after this. 🙂
Iain c that descent is great only done it once but and need to return
however my fave is sidewinder at afan full tilt in the dark! well that's where i have just been anyhow!
Most recent favourite has to be Ben Ime down to loch Long, in places it is sublime in others down right knee deep mud..... 3300 feet of decent is hard to beat.
After that there is a two minute section of mud, roots and rocks I have been slowly muscling down through a section of forestry above the town (shh, dont tell the local estate, the previous attempt was dug up by the estate foresters)
Dowies and most other bits of singletrack in the FOD, to many to choose from!
Really like the singletrack above Trevelez in the Alpujaras, quite different from most of the stuff round there in that it's undulating rather than steep, lovely.
Northwind - MemberI love Mushroom Pie at glentress, I wish I could name a cool "natural" trail or something harder or more impressive, but this little diversion is absolutely beautiful, it flows like nothing else I've ridden and if you get the pumps right you almost do the whole thing without a pedal stroke. Nice wee balance beams as well. Just lovely, good for the soul And then you reach the end and discover you've only descended about 20 feet, and you can get back to the start in 10 seconds, so I do laps
I've still not worked that one out. It's like one of those Escher drawings.
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Now that'd be a trail to ride. "Double black diamond- mandatory air and moebius northshore, suitable for experienced riders with good quality off road bikes and impaired spatial awareness"
+1 for the Lairig Ghru descent. It's like it was purpose made for bikes.
Iron Keld gets my vote too... more for some ace memories of the best ride ever. And a couple of jars in the Drunken Duck before hand probably helped.
I found a nice wee one at Woodland the other day too - very straight forward but a lovely flow... rather enjoyed it and will be back for another go I think.
Then there is Dumyat circa a few years back. Last time I was up there (before moving south) it had lost some of it's charm. But back when I moved to Stirling around 2001/2ish the descent down that main track was just stonking.
I have it on good authority that Parkamoor is a bit special too though, so shall try and get out there in the next couple of weeks to check it out.
damn, where's my lights. reading this makes me want to ride
Wimble Holme hill.
Another sweet Cheeky - the Lenah Valley trail, Mt Wellington, Tasmania:
(as always - much steeper than it looks in photos)
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Fairy Glen by Llandyrnog near Ruthin, fast as you dare with an angled bridge crossing that you could straightline, unfortunately they've now put a fence on it 🙁
The one just ahead of my front wheel......& just behind my back wheel... 😉
Col de Joux Vert down to L'Abricotine. If I can't get to sleep at night it is what I think of. Fantastic riding.
In GB the descent down to Dan yr Ogof caves in the Upper Swansea valley is VERY hard to beat indeed. And a bit niche too, very few people know it, let alone ride it.
But ambrose i'm scared of dinosaurs!
lookout mountain in the ochocos.
Cervinia race course in snow rain hail lighting ............
Mushroom Pie is awesome. Only ridden it once (half by mistake) and I loved it. Freezing cold and soaking wet but that put the smile back on my face!
Hmm it's probably either one of the Mega qualifier sections or something at Kirroughtree. Also, it's not that long but I love the bit of singletrack in Grizedale that goes over Breasty Haw (good name too).
I love Sidewinder and Hidden Valley at Afan.
And there's a great section in the Forest of Dean near Ellwood, that winds down either side of a little ditch. If it's got a name I don't know it, but it's great!
Absolute best I've ridden is probably [url= 
]Trail 8 in Killington Vermont[/url] - twisty, rooty singletrack that traverses the mountain so it takes 40ish minutes 🙂
In the UK, I still feel the love for the singletrack I started riding on - Upper Quarry in Ashton Court, Bristol - on a good day, there's just no better feeling than flying along it.
Locally, Grims ditch, including the cheeky section.
Otherwise, i think some of the stuff i rode at Pila 2 years ago was pure fun fun fun...
Almost makes me want to skip summer and go straight to summer alpinism! 😀
Can't think of just one.
Zig zags @ Afan, only ever done it as a night ride a couple of times 😀
Mark of Zorro @ Nant Yr Arian, is definitely worth a mention
Cwm Rhaeadr, it's short but very enjoyable
The descent that Ambrose mentions above is very good, but next time I'm not riding rigid and I'm taking lights!
I can't decide - too much to choose from...
Bit I always love on my regular run is the little stretch from Daisybank road to the Scout hut on Leckhampton Hill - not too technical or difficult but something you can really speed down. Its just twisty, turny, droppy, rooty fun!!! 🙂
The Cresta run with switchbacks in Spain
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Those 3 trails at Chezzie. Are they really that good as I have never cycled around there. I live in Derbyshire and I'm intrigued.
Black 8 or White 8 in Les Arcs (can't remember which is which, but they're both ace).
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From Bilsdale West Moor down towards Arnsgill ridge in the North York Moors. esp in the summer when its very over grown!
Good to see a couple of votes for Mushroom Pie but then I helped dig/wheelbarrow it aong with the Pie Run. I especially like the first half of the Pie Run, brushing past the trees. Haven't been for ages but I liked the last descent at Nant Y Arian about seven years ago. Also liking the Coulags to Annat stuff and the singletrack from the wee bothy to Achnashellach station. But my fave is only five mins from my house and thats one of the reasons I love it. Very fast through the trees and the perfect gradient.
Take the Mushroom Pie blueprint Steven and make it 5 miles long please?
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When I read the OP I think it was Grow Bag at Bike Village that really came to mind. If only it was more local to me. 🙂
Close seconds were the bit of Falla Brae at Glentress between where the red and black sections merge to the bridge and either Black Hill or Poet's Glen in the Pentlands.
Reading through this thread though I've managed to think of a few others too! Pie Run/Mushroom Pie are great and so is the singletrack at Nant yr Arian, particularly the last bit! I'd better not forget the last section at Kirroughtree, or some of the really nice bits in Kirkhill forest, or, or, etc. 🙂
Not enough hours in the day Daveboy, nice thought tho'. We'd need hundreds of trailfairies to pull that one off, or two dozen latiric's 😀
Take the Mushroom Pie blueprint Steven and make it 5 miles long please?
That would be pretty cool. Especially if it still took only 10 seconds to get back to the start. 🙂
However there was an unusual set of circumstances that made Mushroom Pie end up like it did, I'm not sure it could be repeated intentionally! Plus given how much hassle getting the drainage for the trail done was, I'm not sure you'd find enough people willing to help build a 15 mile equivalent. As a point of reference I think it took the Trailfairies as long to build Mushroom Pie as it took them to build the Pie Run, despite the Pie Run being twice the length of Mushroom Pie...
Just remembered the singletrack we did near Wanlockhead at the SS champs at drumlanrig last year. Concentrated the mind.
Damn! I forgot to mention Drumlanrig! How come no-one else has already?
I wanted to call it Mushroom soup 😉
Because most folks go to the 7stanes Chris, only ever done Drumlanrig at races but they've always been great fun.
Be Rude Not To - Whakawerawera, Rotorua.
Its not my local, i only ride there maybe twice a year yet everytime i ride it i come out the end giggling like a dirty schoolgirl !
Local - second bit of Sally Alley at Makara Peak.