Was raining cats n dogs today and I was coming past the stainburn trails
so stopped off to walk the pooch around and took a few piccies

Stainburn piccies

first ones are the red route but only took a few as the rain was very iffy so took a few more when I got in the trees on the Black route

That looks great fun…in the dry! Not sure my skills are up to tackling that in the wet though. Must arrange a visit, do you mind if I link to your piccies to show my riding buds?

I told three different people to go there, based on the fact it’s so bloomin great. Everyone of them fell off, to be fair one was in the car park.

Sorry cnud, I’d tell you to go but you’d only go and break an arm!

Cnud feel free to link away the more the merrier

Been a trail digger there nearly a year now and not yet rode it ( sorry attempted to ride it ) had difficulties walking it today

Went last Friday for 4th or 5th time and love it. Red route and dh is entertaining but the black route is simply great.

stainburn rocks ! so far 3 broken ribs, 1 broken hand, 2 broken knuckles and loads of cuts n bruises yet i still keep going back for more !

Not been over for ages but I love Stainburn. Some of the best built trails I’ve ever ridden.
Gets pretty spicy in the wet…

Those rocks and slabs look bloody slippy! 😯

Those rocks and slabs look bloody slippy!

Actually surprisingly grippy int wellies bloody dark in there though

Next time i’m up were going there 8) .. not walking either!
How far from you Troutie?

25 mins drive
when is next time ??? I am game

We’ve almost finished reclaiming the Warren Boulder Trail. It’s nearly been swept completely from top to bottom, clearing 6 years of mulch off the trail has returned it to it’s double Black status and the hardest FC trail in the UK. It’s almost all back to how it would have been originally. Some features had almost been completely lost, but we’ve put loads of logs down in places to force people to ride the proper line. Other features had become a bit tame with the rocks buried, not anymore though.

Ooooooh that sounds like a challenge!! 😈
I haven’t been for a couple of months but it is V enjoyable

Tuesdays and Friday nights, a bunch of us have been clearing it for a few weeks now. I think some sections will get further TLC on our official dig days, but it’s the worst wheelbarrow push in the world with aggregate (one of the reasons why they used so much rock on the original build, there’s loads of it lying around).

The logs made me MTFU I must confess. Good work peeps.

looks like fun that.

just checked and i’m only 30min drive away, will have to go down there soon.

may even go in the morning, is it safe to go on your own? or will i die?

Rode there on Sunday and really noticed the clean-up.Nice job! I noticed some yellow arrows over some of the rock features as a guide to line choices,after 2yrs riding at Stainburn they really helped the flow of the place.Still my favourite tech trail and lucky to have it on my doorstep 🙂

MrsBouys parents live over the hill, I’m a very lucky bouy.

What paws for Stainburn? 😀

Holy Cow! I’ve been once to Stainburn and it was great, but I am not sure I fancy riding it in the wet. We minced around most of it, as it was!!!

Off up on Sunday if folks want to come and ride/watch me mince round?

Rode it last Monday night, warmed up on the Black in the gloom!

It was lovely and dry and once again back to its original rocky, scarefest! Still can’t bring myself to ride Hovis corner or the seesaw…

Cheers chaps 😀

right, i’m going late morning for a few hours mincing.

if you see me on a raw canyon come and say hi 😀

Here is how the trails fit in the woods

I did want to do a sort of picture location thingy with the gps track
but lack of knowledge on how to kyboshed that plan

Need to get up there again ASAP. Only live in Halifax but its such a pain in the arse to get there from here. Do need to have a good day sessioning stuff – looks like loads has been done since I was last there.

Whats the state of Norwood at the moment?

I love Stainburn, and i can just nip down in my Dinner hour, for a cheeky blast.

Black route is certainly one to put a smile on your face. I do wish though, Chicken wire was put on the Wood sections! Even in the dry, my head is telling me it’s slippy!

Please put chicken wire on, i’ll come help put it on!

Tasty. Verrrry tasty.

Might have been last time we were there, a guy on a Ransom hit the first bit of woodwork (the flowing one that drops down to the right and into a rock garden) and couldn’t slow down – just got faster and faster until he hit a tree at the end. Sounded like someone punching a pillow when he hit is and slid to the floor. It was great to watch…

He mustn’t have put the Ransom in Traction mode 😉

No chicken wire allowed due to the stupid world we all live in. It’s much safer to slide off than the remote chance you might catch yourself on some ripped chicken mesh..

what about the loop over the road. is that riding again? was also good great vie of menwith hill and the wind farm. slightly more ‘natural’ but last time I went about 3 years since the forest works had ruined a lot of the trail

Yeah over the road is ridable, there are some nice long blasts available if you keep your eyes open, swoopy singletrack into the pine woods. Up over the rocks at little armscliffe there are some techie singletrack routes, bit hard going in places, a bit trials like, but properly good fun, then blast all the way over the top and down the steep bit back to the gate at the bottom, cross the road and back into the Stainburn area..

Neat, very neat indeed.

Really great spot, only 20 minutes ride from my in-laws. The last time I was doing the descent line down the right hand side, and coming back up the road, it makes for a good bit of fitness training. I’m really looking forward to going back when the stuff over the road is dried out – it was a swamp over the Winter.

I do wish though, Chicken wire was put on the Wood sections! Even in the dry, my head is telling me it’s slippy!

Please put chicken wire on, i’ll come help put it on!
Just a minute! we put a load of new decking down impregnated with a sand/resin mix and on last inspection it’s still super grippy (I walked down the cole shute on Tues night).
It’s been on the cole shute and the big north shore for a couple of years, I think it’s all in your head monty.