Glentress and the Snow

Airienteer

I'm off up to see family in Scotland and thought I'd stop off at Glentress on the way. Being as far north as it is I presume it's had a fair amount of snow. I have no problem with riding in these conditions but was just wondering if they close the trails at all? Cheers

sws

I've ridden the trails at GT in pretty much all conditions and never seen them closed. Pretty much all the red trails are sheltered under the trees so they get damp/wet rather than whited out. The exception being the fire roads and the top of Spooky Woods. Ice would be the main hazard to watch out, if things get too cold the tyre tracks from earlier riders harden and picking your own line becomes a challenge.

DasArab

If memory serves correct im sure its open 365 days a year. I guess its up the the rider to decide if its safe enough. Having ridden the red route with snow covering 90% of the spooky wood accent and decent and knowing how scary that was i guess its up to the individual. Its not soo much the snow but if there's ice underneath that's the scary part. One of the good parts about GT is the fact that you could do the red route up the fire road at teh bottom of spookywood climb and come back done the blue route from there, the blue route seems to be far smoother graded, with now where near the amount of tree roots of say the pie run or magic mushroom, and we all know how tree roots can be a right killer. You could even do teh red route up to the freeride carpark and come back the blue route and do that a couple of times.

gavmac

Pretty much what sws said, I'd avoid the black if I thought it was icy and only the very top of the red at spooky wood seems to suffer to the extent it is difficult to ride. They are pretty good at updating what is ridable now and there is more than enough riding lower down under trees and not to far from the hub to limit any risk if you are riding on your own. I'd say go for it. Even looping the green a number of times can be a cracking ride if conditions are grim.