Glentrees Blue

glentress is a pretty compact centre really, you can spend as much time as you have and use shortcuts to get back to the centre.

Been a long time since I did the blue, and it likely changed a lot,

hi, iv never been to glentress, but if the blue trail there is anything like the blue at Ae then it wont take more than an hour to get round, i found the blue at Ae to be a big let down, its was all roads apart from 1 section that only lasted a few mins going through the trees (which was good)

You could spend an hour doing the GT blue or more if you fancy doing bits of it again. The blue route at GT is simply ACE, so much so that I often link in parts of the blue when doing the red & black. It's awesome fun!

If you have a couple of hours you can really make the most of GT by doing sections of red and sections of blue.

Start on the red, follow it all the way to the top of spooky wood, if you are short of time skip pennels vennel and carry on up the fire road then hairpin left to climb to spooky

Do spooky wood, then stay on red to do super g. Then turn right up the hill and take the blue route from there, you can take in the free ride park, which is a right laugh. Then through the back of the car park and follow blue all the way back to the bottom

From spooky wood its almost non stop fun, if you have some time left when you drop out of blue (point 33 on the map) loop back up the forest road and come down the red to finish

Lee

glad to hear the blue route is good, are there a lot of steep hills? my mrs doesnt like big hills

big hairy wise ape would say, to come down, one inevitably must go up.

neiltb wrote:

big hairy wise ape would say, to come down, one inevitably must go up.

Try teling that to the fecker that organised the Wentwood Enduro last month, it doesn't mean that the down will be fun!!

UP UP UP UP UP UP... road section down.. UP UP UP UP... smal bit of trail down....UP UP UP UP UP.... road section back to the start :x

trailpuppet wrote:

paul_75

Joined: 10 Dec 2010
Posts: 30
Location: Dumfriesshire

Hey Paul
Whereabouts in Dfs are you?

glad to hear the blue route is good, are there a lot of steep hills? my mrs doesnt like big hills

It is certainly a bit of a slog up to the start of Betty Blue. Just take it easy, have plenty of stops so that she has the energy to enjoy the freewheeling back to the cafe

You can cheat a bit. Take the car up to the skills/jump park and start the blue there, finish at the cafe. Leave Mrs at the cafe with some nice carrot cake and then you can bike back up to collect the car.

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thanks for the reply, i will let her know its a fair slog up the hill at the start ( probably put her off it though) although she might be into sitting waiting for me to get the car, shes done that at drumlanrig before, sat at the end of the trail and let me ride the last mile or so alone the road to get the car, couldnt imagine her doing that for me though

im from kirkconnel

I'd reckon it's a bit more that 3-400 meters!

It always breaks my heart when I get to the wall and see the rest of the climb lurking off into the woods, but it's well worth it!!

Gotta love Glentress, apart from them raping the Hub



Lee

will8 wrote:

Whist i am working in scotland iam planning to have a blast at Glentress. I will be working Dunfermline which is about 1 hr away, i will be doing it after work, so i was wondering roughly how long it takes to get round ?

Thanks.

More importantly, get to the game on Saturday.

Doing any local riding?