Malvern Hills MTB – route tips please

Hi, will be staying in the area Weds night and should have an hour or 2 of daylight to go for a ride Thursday PM. Malvernhills.org has 3 routes… I’m guessing the long one may be too long for the available daylight (and energy levels) but the medium one (8.7km) feels too short. If you had 90 mins to kill what would you recommend?

90 minutes isn’t masses of time but there are plenty of variations you could do.

I can pull loads of routes from OS maps in gpx files so (not sure messaging works on here now) would be more than happy to send you a couple of options if you chuck me an email address.

I’ve often parked in the car park at the North end in the map below, done the zig zag climb and then just enjoyed getting to the tops, going as far to each next top as you feel.

A squint at the elevation profile up there^^ tells you all you need to know. Lots of up, same amount of down, very little ‘along’.

Also see here…

https://www.malvernhills.org.uk/visiting/cycling/

and here…

https://www.malvernhills.org.uk/media/1473/map-and-guide-website-page-1.pdf

and here…

https://www.malvernhills.org.uk/media/1474/map-guide-website-page-2.pdf