Two days riding round the North York Moors exploring bits from the new Good Mountain Biking Guide. A short but nicely technical circuit from Kildale included the descent to from 615075 to Baysdale Abbey (617069), singletrack across Great Hograh Moor (627066 to 855068) and Warren Moor (632078 to 626087), all connected with the obvious and perfectly acceptable doubletrack/road. The singletrack is surprsingly narrow! Where it is steep it can be quite tricky, where it is an easier gradient its great fun and draws you into riding it faster and faster! the gudebook suggested most of these could be riddne in either direction, which is moslty true but the southern side of Warren Moor is just loose, whereas the northern side is much more fun.
The second day was lower on technical riding but better on atmosphere and tea shops. Also a much shorter drive from the south, starting near Osmotherely. The technical riding comes between Dale Head (495948) and Locker Wood (511944). Some road and birdelways connect to the tearoom in Hawnby (543893) though the bridleway is soemwhat indistinct in places, take care not to follow the obvious doubetrack from Moor Gate (540917), this is not the bridleway! The reutnr from Hawnby was quite a drag, and the bridleway between Sunnybank Farm (535892) and Dale Town Common (512895) was somewhat overgrown. The rest of the return home over the moors on doubeltrack was fast and atmospheric. The descent off Black Hambleton (480943 to 479959) starts steep, technical and loose, though not for long, and eventually becomes smooth and fast with drainage channels which even I managed to jump!
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