Whinlatter Altura trail, any good?

Fordyboy

Me and some mates are thinking of heading up there this weekend, just wondering if any of you guys have ridden it and if so what your thoughts are?

Cheers

gonga

I love it!
Quite tricky in places if its wet put loads of fun sections make it great.

Fordyboy

Thanks Gonga, that'll do for me!!

apoc_reg

I really enjoyed that, was very wet when i did it last winter!

pastey_boy

awesome. one of my faves but as already mentioned it not as much fun in the wet unless your a shin pad wearing sadist

apoc_reg

pastey_boy wrote:

awesome. one of my faves but as already mentioned it not as much fun in the wet unless your a shin pad wearing sadist

The wet ... yeah i must admit it was rather 'tricky' at times. I wasn't exactly going for a record on it.

I actually did fall off. But that was crossing a little wooden bridge going back into the car park haha idiot!

Fordyboy

Thanks guys, appreciate the input, fingers crossed it stays dry I guess!

The Northern Monkey

Great trail in wet or dry (pussies :P)
There is actually more grip on the downwards sections in the wet!

I'll be there this saturday!

pastey_boy

i may be there sat/sun as i have a badly under used season ticket

gonga

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Great trail in wet or dry (pussies :P)
There is actually more grip on the downwards sections in the wet!

I'll be there this saturday!

I was surprised with how slippy it was the other day with all the bone dry loose slatey bits.

Got to love those jumps on the north loop!!

neninja

A few of us will be there tomorrow. Hoping the rain clears through.

I've not been before so looking forward to it.

gonga

I would recommend doing the blue before the north and south altura loops.
I did it for the first time the other day and it has some fun stuff in it to wet your appetite for the Harder stuff!

Yukon Boy

Its awesome! One of my favourites!!!

Bluemoon39

gonga wrote:

I would recommend doing the blue before the north and south altura loops.
I did it for the first time the other day and it has some fun stuff in it to wet your appetite for the Harder stuff!

+1
Blue straight into south, then North