Trail conditions - no updates until January

If you are planning on riding over Christmas and New Year, note that we won't be providing any trail updates on the main website for a while - until 10 January 2011 at the earliest.

There's still a lot of snow and ice around - although Kirroughtree seems fairly free from both - so if you are riding, please make sure you take the right equipment and supplies with you.

Here's to lots of happy riding in 2011.

Merry Christmas!

Trail Conditions at Glentrool & Kirroughtree 17/12/2010

All the snow from the last wintry spell has gone and we have had no fresh falls as yet. The trails and forest roads are largely clear of ice but with the continuing cold weather the remaining patches wont be going away any time soon. Just keep you eyes open for it and remember that the conditions can change quite suddenly.

Glentress Trail Conditions - Tue 14th Dec

Currently the conditions at Glentress are:

Lower trails mostly snow free, although snow still remains on higher trails. All trails icy in places, with lower forest roads being very icy.

Here's a few pics from Monday afternoon:

Trailhead - start of road up into forest

Forest road upto Red Squirrel car park. Very icy/slippy - currently closed to vehicles.

Start of wee linking climb before Dougie Bank Climb. Icy in open...

...but much clearer of ice under the trees

Near end of Magic Mushroom

Clearing brash/debris off Magic Mushroom from tree thinning operations. The machine operators have done a great job of protecting the trail - hardly marked. Much more light now through Magic Mushroom and we were able to retain the key trees next to the trail (ones marked with tape). Some more clearing work to be done before we can reopen the trail - keep an eye on the 7stanes trail conditions for updates.

Cheers,

Andy (mtb Ranger)

Snow Art!

What to do when there's too much snow for riding?? Create some snow art!

Andy Weir (fellow mtb ranger) spotted these on the Electric Blue flyover bridge at Glentress whilst out checking some of the trails on Wednesday.

Thanks to one very creative member of the public!