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DANSPANK
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I'd read the reviews and had wanted to give this place a try so did it today. Bloody hell it's tough!
I parked in the main parking lot and followed a loop I'd downloaded from someone in this forum (CEM? Chris? - I can't remember but thanks!) A shorter climb leads to a sweet switchback single track that opens up into a field. You cross a service road and then begin to long climb everyone talks about. It's tough alright. There's a lot of loose gravel but a couple of times some singletrack dips into the woods. There're a lot of horse puddings here too so be careful!
The climb is a tough bastard, not made any easier by the big, potentially loose rocks. But at the top you get some sweet twisty singletrack followed by a monster, super fast downhill but it's rocky so you bounce around a lot.
You continue up and down over some log rollers, rock rollers, steep climbs and steep downs until you reach the "trail closed" sign. Just look right and follow that big bitch of a hill up. You get to the top and you have a steep downhill up to a huge downed tree - that's a walker! But someone has loaded logs up if you want to give it a crack. Note that the logs are only on the uphill side so over the top is a good 2ft drop - have fun on that puppy!
Keeping left you ctoss some tough log rollers, swoop around a little and end up in a car park next to a railway line. I imagine here is where you can take the road back to the main car park to complete the loop. I turned around and did the whole kit 'n' kaboodle backwards.
To me it seemed a lot toughe going back. Maybe coz I was knackered!
Unfortunately I forgot to start my timer when I left the car so the route below misses out the first three miles and half of the first major climb:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/2600367
I worked out that I probably totalled 15.5 miles and 3500ft of climbing.
I stopped a lot but walked very little so I'm happy!
If you attempt and complete this trail on a single speed/full rigid then you go to an upper level of god-dom in my book - you bloody animals!
I parked in the main parking lot and followed a loop I'd downloaded from someone in this forum (CEM? Chris? - I can't remember but thanks!) A shorter climb leads to a sweet switchback single track that opens up into a field. You cross a service road and then begin to long climb everyone talks about. It's tough alright. There's a lot of loose gravel but a couple of times some singletrack dips into the woods. There're a lot of horse puddings here too so be careful!
The climb is a tough bastard, not made any easier by the big, potentially loose rocks. But at the top you get some sweet twisty singletrack followed by a monster, super fast downhill but it's rocky so you bounce around a lot.
You continue up and down over some log rollers, rock rollers, steep climbs and steep downs until you reach the "trail closed" sign. Just look right and follow that big bitch of a hill up. You get to the top and you have a steep downhill up to a huge downed tree - that's a walker! But someone has loaded logs up if you want to give it a crack. Note that the logs are only on the uphill side so over the top is a good 2ft drop - have fun on that puppy!
Keeping left you ctoss some tough log rollers, swoop around a little and end up in a car park next to a railway line. I imagine here is where you can take the road back to the main car park to complete the loop. I turned around and did the whole kit 'n' kaboodle backwards.
To me it seemed a lot toughe going back. Maybe coz I was knackered!
Unfortunately I forgot to start my timer when I left the car so the route below misses out the first three miles and half of the first major climb:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/2600367
I worked out that I probably totalled 15.5 miles and 3500ft of climbing.
I stopped a lot but walked very little so I'm happy!
If you attempt and complete this trail on a single speed/full rigid then you go to an upper level of god-dom in my book - you bloody animals!