It can’t be any worse than the Sunday after the snow (March 4th). At one point I got off the bike because I thought either the rear brake was binding or the freehub had died. But no, it was just the drag of ‘The Ginge’ on the fire road
I dunno, I usually ride elsewhere on natural trails that get less traffic and if I do Swinley it’s usually not the entire blue/red/blue loop so I miss the worst bits (how F***ing hipster do I sound?). The fire road from Upper Star post to Caesar’s camp was so wet I actually struggled to keep it in a straight line due to wheelspin.
The trails themselves seemed OK, a mix of good work by TTS sanitising the awkward bits of seagull, and thousands of riders wearing out the older bits to turn them back into a lovely rooty ‘natural’ surface (that doesn’t get muddy) means they were actually quite fun.
[edit] I don’t mean the old seagull which now forms the outbound section, that’s horrible and I avoided it, I mean the first section of the ‘new’ Seagull.