10 in Kirroughtree - the Week After

The consensus seams to be that it was a great event, it was certainly challenging in the conditions.
After weeks of very little rain the course was running dry and fast two days before the event but 48 hrs of wet weather changed things a lot and it became muddy and quite challenging even for the most skilled riders.
Hats off to every one that completed especially those solo's that put in 9 laps in under 10hrs.

The good news is that the built trails survived relatively unscathed and we have no major damage, if you're riding the red route just watch out for a thin covering of mud in places, we have removed most of it!

The "natural" sections however took a hammering so if you used these sections before the weekend be prepared for them to be a lot harder now.
We plan to invest some time improving the drainage and removing some of the accumulations of mud as well as a few reroutes to improve things but it wont happen overnight.

On re riding the route yesterday I found very little litter, thanks for helping keep the forest clean.

Chris

See link for event report by MTBCUT
http://www.singletrackworld.com/2010/07/ten-at-kirroughtree/

NPS Downhill comes to Ae!!

Hey all,

This weekend coming sees a round of the NPS downhill champs coming to Ae forest. All the other trails will remain open, but the Downhill course will be closed to members of the public for the weekend, Saturday for qualifying and Sunday for racing!

The cafe and bikeshop will also remain open to members of the public as per usual.

Cheers

10 in Kirroughtree Saturday 10 July

Entries are still open for the 3rd year of this Nofuss 10 hour endurance event www.nofussevents.co.uk

This years course is based on the one used in previous years, but with a couple of new sections first used for the SXC race earlier in the year added it should be even better.

The event will include parts of the blue route and red route out as far as the start of "The White Witch". The waymarked trails will still be open but please give way to the 500+ competitors taking part.

The green rout will be closed for the day.

Chris

Upper part of 'The Admiral' trail now open!

The upper section of 'The Admiral' trail is now open! This new 375m section of trail, which is detailed on the current Glentress trailmaps starts at post 34 and links into the existing Admiral trail, the final section of singletrack on the Blue Route.

The trail is similar in feel to the existing Admiral trail - wide and flowy with mellow descending gradients and some optional rock features, a 40m section of boardwalk to cross the main Glentress valley burn then a short, very gentle climb out to meet the existing Admiral trail.

The Blue Route is now waymarked to take in this section of trail, so look out for the waymarker arrows which now point you left at the exit of Good Game and up a forest road for ~150m to the start at Post 34.

Let us know what you think of the new section - all feedback is much appreciated.

Cheers,

Andy (MTB Ranger)