Boltby Area (not the Bash) – Kilburn / Yearsley / Dalby?

I’m in the Boltby area for a few days, (riding the Bash on Sunday) but looking for other places to potentially ride while up there.  I was going to head to Dalby for a day of Off Pisting, but having a look at Trailforks / Heatmaps there’s a couple of other spots – Kilburn Woods and Yearsley Woods.  Are they any good/difficult?  Which would be best with the forecasted conditions?

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Either are great, both suffer from rain in that they get slippy but not unrideable. At the moment Yearsley is near enough bone dry and running very fast with some good fun trails. Not difficult trails but nice. Kilburn is a little more difficult in places but nothing crazy.

The hills are quite small so the very longest run of either is only about 2 mins with most being 1 minute but it’s easy and doesn’t take long to to get back up the hill. Kilburn hill is higher than Yearsley and takes longer to get back up. I had 11 or 12 runs in 2 hours yesterday at Yearsley.

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Thanks @jonwebb, that’s helpful – I’m leaning towards a few hours at Yearsley I think.

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@ogden – 🤐

If you do go to Yearsley someone on their Facebook page had been last week and got about 20 ticks on him, so be aware of the little buggers.

Dalby/Yearsley/Kilburn(& Hood Hill) off piste bits all good. Its absolutely smashing it down here today though (like pitch black, torrential weather). In my experience, the Dalby off-piste bits to the south-east of the forest cope with a bit of rain far better than Yearsley/Kilburn does but they’re busier…

Hope it dries out for you – conditions in Boltby Forest at the weekend in the sun were primo!