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Heading there tomorrow to ride, where is the best place to park? Sadly Escape Route (bike side) is shut so its a trailforks day.. None of our group having ridden here of course!
Top trail tips also welcome- happy on most of what Dunkeld offers in terms of tech etc if it helps
I park up near the golf course but it's a single track road with only a few unofficial spaces. Saves pedalling up from town.
Trail wise it's not as mental as Dunkeld although there is one track I've not done that's supposed to be insane. Lots of nice flow with a good few steep bits that need commitment. Climbs are a slog though
Divine Intervention is the one that is supposedly mental, did the others though. Trails less dug than in other areas so could be pretty hard if the ground is wet. D-D used to be red I think and easier than Riviera.
Park at the Gary bridge and do a bungie jump after your ride :p
For the main it's one climb and most things are on trailforks. A nice order is DD, V1, Conans, Riviera, Jalfrazi, Divine Intervention. For rising difficulty. Or reverse it 😅
As above on the whole it isn't very dug in and the beauty is the condition of it. Don't skid and cut the corners, leave it nice for other people to ride 👌🍻
Thanks guys!
We did V1 top, Riviera, DD, Jalfrazi, Conans, and then finished on the lower blue. A decent day and we'll be back- especially as the four of us ended up as two after a mechanical and a tumble! Surprisingly dry up there, Divine Intervention will be looked at next time.
Would like to give these a go in the near future. Is TrailFirks pretty accurate -looks like 2/3 km up the same route to access most of the trails on a repeating loop?
We got there with Trailforks with a few and got shown the jalfrezi and Conan’s from a guy we met
trails a amazing
I rode at Craigower today. Conditions are perfect. I rode DD, Phoenix, Divine Intervention, Jalfrezi then V1, V2 then Nesbitt.
Divine Intervention is being harvested at the top. It looks like the trail hasn't been ridden for a while - there are a lot of sticks and twigs on the surface. It is significantly harder than the other stuff, and I found it too scary TBH. I could make all sorts of excuses about being solo and all of that, but the bottom line is it spooked me.. I must have walked 4 or 5 sections, and was so pleased to arrive alive on the fireroad at the bottom, but remain an atheist. I'll be giving it a miss in the future.
Tick.
Stopping nearby in a month or two. Sounds good from the above posts.
Scary in what way? We haven't ridden it, is it the gradient, rocks etc?
I rode it yesterday. Did DD, V1,V2, Nesbitt and pheonix. Didn’t like nesbitt but DD was ace fun. I avoided Devine intervention after my friend said it was proper mental ha ha ha.
Most of the walkers I met were polite apart from two grumpy old gits that ignored my hello.
Vid is up on the weekend thread.
Sustained steepness with constant trees and occasional pointy rocks. Too steep to stop, but if you somehow do, too steep to start again. If you start thinking about all the pointy branches and your flesh/eyes, you've blown it.
And access through the felling at the top is challenging. I am bloody minded, but didn't enjoy it. The start of the trail is currently very hard to find.