Dartmoor Routes.

We’re looking at a weekend away next month to visit relatives and Dartmoor’s right on the doorstep.

So anyone fancy showing us round some of your local stuff?

*trailmonkey and his crew to the forum please* 😉

Mind if I can join you

You’d have to ask the person that might want to be good enough to show us round. 😀

I’d be good enough to show you around.. and more than happy to..

but I’ve got a poorly knee.. and I’ve also got a new baby arriving in the next day or two..
I could show you around the local woods for an hour.. but that would be rather boring and you would end up hating me for it..

someone will be along shortly to provide a solution no doubt.. 🙂

That’s very good of you yunki.
Maybe we could fit a short ride round your local woods in aswell as a longer ride with Woody or anyone else willing to help out. 🙂

I can show you the natural stuff in lustleigh and Haldon but am always happy to learn more routes on the moor as it were…

I’d be keen to see what Haldon off piste has to offer. 🙂

Maybe we could fit a short ride round your local woods

Oh god no.. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enema.. but if you do manage to winkle Woody out of hibernation I’ll tag along at the back for an hour before disappearing back into the undergrowth..

When are you down & where abouts on Dartmoor do you want to ride?

I live in Kernow but ride the W.Dartmoor trails Princetown/Burrator etc fairly often & maybe free to guide if needed.

Obviously E.Dartmoor is Trailmonkey’s territory & has the more techy trails in & around Lustleigh to show you.

oooohh starting to look good.

We’ve not booked a date yet so it could be anytime next month.
When are you free?

It’d be good to do east one day and west the other.

This will also have the added advantage of having less time to spend on the visiting side of the trip. 😀

I’m out every weekend…

Stu – drop me an email (addy in profile) & we can go from there.

I don’t mind guiding or I can send GPX routes instead.

I can’t do the wkend 24/25th March 🙁

I’ll mail you later crispy.
Guiding would be much more fun than a GPX as we get to socialise aswell as ride. 🙂

OK Stu guiding it is then 🙂

ping back up here when you’re coming down and we’ll sort something out. Woody is in hibernation at the mo, as Yunki suggests, but may be tempted out if the weather holds for a while. if not we have a few other mates who are around and will be happy to guide.
if you want to do haldon we can do that too, for sure, as we know that hill pretty well…
just let us know when you’re about and you’ll not be short of riding. 😀

East one day and west the other, sounds like my kind of weekend, if it’s open to all then I’m up this one if avaliable.

Cheers guys.

We’ll sort something out when i’ve not just come back from the pub. 😉

Though Mrsssstu has just said that it’s a weak excuse from Woody as she’s busy studying for her masters and can find time to come down to his neck of the woods. 🙄 😉

I’d be up for this aswell. Sure we can dig Woody out of his hole for the Dartmoor stuff.

Happy to guide around the cheeky stuff at Haldon if you choose to do that. The fairies have been busy today…

who you callin’ a fairy!? 👿

Relatively new to the area and still finding my way round but would definitely be up for a ride depending on family commitments etc… that is of course provided that no-one’s going to take exception to the lack of boingy bits at either end of my particularly sturdy bicycle.

Up there today about 11am as weather looks o.k. for once.

March is the start of summer down here these days so there’ll be plenty of good stuff to be done and we’ll be in residence.

Del/Cleetus,
Where were you digging for lucky charms? Was up there with Anne, sent her down the old Rat run 🙂

Whereabouts Shinythings? Will also be playing outside about then. Was thinking of doing some burrator area stuff but could be easily diverted

Onto, Be the east to get rid of post cold and unfitness. Where have you not been in the east?

Will have the dog with me so it’s either haldon, lusleigh or burrator for me today (need to avoid roads). mind you, i’ve not done much round drogo.

Teign valley (Drogo) will be minging.

I’ll be going from Yarner, but can go from Hound tor if helpful. 10:30 – 11AM

cool, see you at Yarner about 10:45 then. white bike, black lab 🙂

Wilco, see you there – blue citroen

Anyone else?

singlespeedstu – just seen the thread – drop me a mail

ivyhouse7 AT yahoo dot co dot uk

we’ll get you sorted out with the good stuff one way or another 8)

Anyone else?

I’ll be on a rigid SS with a robust and very heavy toddler on the back..

We may venture into Lustleigh but we’ll definitely be staying in the bottom of the valleys..

might bump into you later.. have a good one.. 😀

crispy, birchy and trailmonkey.
Mailed all of you.

great ride today, many thanks shinythings! roll on the next one.

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Not bad conditions apart from the usual post rain one inch of gloop which made it unpredictable. Glad you enjoyed it ontor, you’ve a lot more to see yet.

Ontor and dog on Bowermans

Welcome indeed

Ontor about to reach the slippery bits

They came out really well, cheers

I did think I was going to take you out for one short moment, as I hit the slippy stuff…

Right then.
We’re heading down to you guys for the 17th/18th.
I’ve had various email conversations with a few of you but it’s all getting a bit complicated. 😉 (for me anyway)

We’d like to ride east dartmoor on the 17th and haldon on the 18th if that’s possible please?
Woodys said he may or may not be able to help us on the saturday. If he can’t can anyone else?

Burchy.
If you can sort us out for haldon on the 18th that would be fantastic.

There will be cake involved for payment if that’s Ok with you guys? 😀

Shinything.

I know where your second picture was taken. I parked up there the other day while i was taking a break inbetween visiting customers.
It does look like the area has a hell of a lot to offer. 8)

That be Lustleigh cleave that we bang on about, an awful lot of high class stuff in that panarama . I’m sure I’ll be on hand with TM when you’re down as it’s 15mins away for us.

will be there too if I can.

I’ll hopefully be out of hibernation by then

Really looking forwards to this now.

Still on? what time at Haldon? & Yarner?

this image suffering from the aura of gnar emanating from Shinythings. both you and the dog will be pregnant Ontor. suggest you get yourselves booked in for your first Scans.

dates noted and it will be organised. not by me, obviously, i’ll just turn up and drink eat cake. 😀