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Me and 12 or so friends are going to fortwilliam end of aug and are looking to stop at one of the 7stanes n the way back.
We've done glen tress and inners so looking for the next best!
We are a mixed bag but like flow-y with plenty of jumps
What do you recon?
Go to Laggan, not on the way home but along a bit........
Wouldn't really describe Laggan as 'flowy' except for the Orange and some bits of the Upper Red?
Still a very cool place to ride though.
slainte ❓ rob
We've done glen tress and inners so looking for the next best!
Kirroughtree, then..?
From reading the title I'd have said Inners...
Failing that Mabie - the first descent in particular is great, easy to loop round for another runn, too.
IME: Newcastleton - good but short
Mabie: Good bang for buck - not as "monster" as Glentress or Inners, but some great sections, one of my favourite trail centres
Kirroughtree - Goes from easy blue to very techy red with nothing in between
Ae - excellent sections, but the descents are too short - lots of them, just not strung together
Inners - bitch of a long climb, cracking descent - Love it 😉
Glentress - Bits of everything, again great and can be joined to Inners for a monster day
Glentrool - not been as no advertised red or black routes
Drumlanrig (not one of the Stanes, but same area) - good but a bit too much like riding in the South of England to go all the way up North for - Flowy singletrack hillsides (rather than mountainsides) in mud!
def kirroughtree if you want flowy.. 😀
No jumps at Kirroughtree though.
+ 1 for Laggan, think it fits your criteria best.
Go to Ae and just session the DH tracks? The Shredder is quite easy with lots of smallish drops and jumps.
If you're as far up as Fort William you have to visit Laggan. Only 30-40 minutes away and well worth the trip.
Laggan is great (from someone that likes flowy jumpy trails).
Laggan, sounds and look good we were planning on going to nevis and glencoe, is laggan better than gelcoe?
kirroughtree, looks a little tame and the red is described as technical.
Ae or Mabie?
Laggan is awesome; Glencoe was very very disappointing after Fort William and Laggan
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Here follows my assessment of the Jumpy / Flowy ratio of various trails
If you want flow jumpy the Glentress is definitely the best of the 7 stanes.
Mabie is flowy, but not jumpy
Kirroughtree, is very flowy and a really nice trail, but again not jumpy
Dalbeattie is neither flowy nor jumpy but has a couple of interesting technical features
Ae is a bit jumpy, but not that flowy, a bit too much fire road
Inners is jumpy, but I wouldn't call it flowy its one great big climb followed by a nice long descent broken into three long sections
Drumlanrig, not jumpy at all but nice and flowy.
Laggan old red is techy at the top then very flowy all the way till the Northshore then on the easy route down.
Laggan New red, tricky techy climb to get to it, then like spooky wood but more open then more natural flowy back to the join with the black (easy bit).
You can easily do Laggan red many to me whereas GT etc is much harder.
As there is a big group of you I would phone Laggan up and get a price for an uplift to a nearby mountain route and a flowy descent.
Its looking like AE on the way back but know torn with glencoe and laggan.
Nick Will laggans uplift take us up and point us at a run off the beaton track?
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Mabie has had a lot of work recently and flows real nice, not big jumps but lots of little sets of doubles and berms which pump well,ae was the better trail but the surface on much of the decents is badly rutted now and some of the jumps are sketchy, still great trail but not if you want flow.