Grizedale Forest - Mysterious Red Arrows?????

wilcocker
wilcocker Posts: 38
edited October 2009 in Routes
Hello All,

I was up in Grizedale Forest riding on the North Face trail yesterday (enjoyed it a lot!).

I could help but notice some mysterious Red arrow markings painted on the Fire roads, generally going in the opposite direction to the North face trail.

Anyone whos ever ridden it will know that there are lots of cheeky bits of single track and Bridleway forking off from the main NFT route and its actually quite hard not to just go and explore. One of the red arrows was pointing towards a particularly tasty looking bit of track.

Does anyone know if these Red arrows are a suggested route that maybe uses more of the natural stuff and if theres a suggested start point if you want to ride it.

Someone must know what its all about

Many Thanks

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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    Could be a walkers path? there are a lot of marked paths around grizedale...
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • wilcocker
    wilcocker Posts: 38
    Suppose it could be.

    Just strange how it was spray painted onto the fire-road.

    Ther are plent of properly signposted walks so i was thinking maybe some Bikers may have marked a route for other to follow.

    Thanks for the reply.
  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    Moving on from last month's paper-arrows-weighted-down-with-rocks, motorway-size fluoro signposts and arrows drawn with sawdust, this month on the Chase we also have red spray-painted arrows on some of the trails.

    One day I might just follow them :twisted:
  • gregsd
    gregsd Posts: 328
    Could the arrows have been left-over from the recent Grizedale Mountain Bike Challenge?
    VC Godalming
  • sniper68
    sniper68 Posts: 2,910
    They sometimes hold car rallies in there aswel,could be from that.
    Lynskey R480

  • kangaroo
    kangaroo Posts: 1,199
    .blitz wrote:
    Moving on from last month's paper-arrows-weighted-down-with-rocks, motorway-size fluoro signposts and arrows drawn with sawdust, this month on the Chase we also have red spray-painted arrows on some of the trails.

    One day I might just follow them :twisted:

    ive noticed the arrows on the chase as well, ive seen the sawdust and the pebbles ones
    only seen them on fire roads though. dont know what there for though

    paint on trees is usully trail builders marking a trail, or foresty commision marking trees to be cut
    what are brakes for again

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