With the help of the Forestry Commission we have been given the opportunity to create a Freeride park as part of the Haldon Forest Park project.
This is graded as ‘Double Black’, see Rules and Regs
They’ve designated a great big patch of land for us to build in, in return for our committed efforts and hard graft on the XC trails. Cheers FC!
It’s a great plot of land with steep sides, a downhill slope from top to bottom, a stream gulley cutting through half way down and masses of scope for shore and dirt constructions.
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We’ve got a lot of work to do in the Freeride area, but what we have built so far is big, fast, and scary and looks set to continue that way for a while.
There’s alot planned for the area, including wall rides, berms, skinnies, step ups, platforms, rollers, drops, rock gardens blah blah.
But for the time being we decided to build something challenging, something to push the envelope a little.
So there’s a couple of fairly big drops, a really fast berm leading into a large(20ft gap) or smaller(15ft gap) kicker, where you then have the option of the rock garden with a few small drops just to knock you about a bit, or the 33ft if you like to get properly airborne, both of which lead into the new 'S' bend berm section.
Here's a couple of maps detailing the main obstacles. This first one is of the Freeride Area. It is layed out assuming that you're stood at the entrance, by the 'Freeride Area' sign.
This one, the Freeride Trail (Black Run) assumes you are stood at the entrance of the Helter Skelter.
We are working on the Freeride Area and Trail constantly, so be patient, there’s more on its way, but in the mean time please DO NOT alter any structure and DO NOT build anything without permission.
The Forestry Commission can and will take back their land and demolish the trails at any time should any such structures be found to have been built illegally.
Sorry to bang on about it, but it’s a necessary evil.
We’re always interested to hear peoples views on the trails good or bad, this just helps us build better trails at the end of the day, so if you have any opinions or ideas for structures or just a gripe about a section of trail then get in touch.
We wont be offended.
See you on the trail…
