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Haldon Forest, single track in Devon
PAul and I went to play in the wood today, in sech of the grail of muni,
good single track. We went to Haldon Forest near Exeter and would you believe it, we found some pretty good single track with out even looking very hard. After a quick scout round the carpark ( Bullers Hill) to find the most promising looking path we headed off into the forest on a tight down hil path with a scattering of roots, skirted round the bottom of a chalk pit and followed a lovely little single track across the hillside, ignoring all crossing paths we followed this line as it twisted and started to drop down the hill. As it dropped it became quite a challenging ride with some very steep sections and one or two Northshoreesque bridges. Having sepent so much gravity karma so quickly we then had to do some less exciting fire road climbing to gain some high ground and start exploring a different section of the woods. We managed to find the start point for the various way marked walkers trails, and decided to sort of follow the green/red one and see what we found. This section was more mixed with some good sections intersperced by duller bits. We did find a really cool stone built shelter with a fireplace and benches which would be great for a rest stop on a winter day , and there is a patch down by a leat with a short crawl through tunnel and stepping stones and bridges. There is some good technical stuff, but nothing really long like the first bit we found. We also found some bits where markers have been put on trees and stones to saw the route of a trail that isn't there yet. There is an MTB trail planned for Haldon Forest and I think we found bits of the route that havn't yet been carved out of the undergrowth . Looks promising for future ridnig though. It looks like Haldon Forest will be joining Woodbury Common in our growing list of good muni sites in Devon. We havn't finished exploring yet. Sarah -- Union of UK Unicyclists By and for UK riders www.unicycle.org.uk |
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Haldon Forest, single track in Devon
Sarah Miller wrote:
PAul and I went to play in the wood today, in sech of the grail of muni, good single track. We went to Haldon Forest near Exeter and would you believe it, we found some pretty good single track with out even looking very hard. Cor blimey. I was having a clearout the other day and discovered some photos from Haldon Forest from years ago... my first thought was "nah, I was never that small" and my second was, inevitably, weighing up the muni potential of the paths. /me is mucho jealous! Phil -- "Cattle Prods solve most of life's little problems." |
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