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Mountain biking in the Northwest
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30-06-2008 2:58pm#1
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There used to be a good dirt track in Letterkenny that went from Upper Lurgybrack down to Leck years ago, but I think it's gone now...sorry that really wasn't helpful at all....
The forest around Gartan Lake are cool for mountain biking I used to do it loads years ago...
You need to be careful about creating your own, me and few mates tried it when we were younger in the woods surrounding Rockhill army camp, until we were chased off by a load of soldiers :eek:
Ah but I miss mountain biking...
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Does anyone know of any mountain biking trails in Donegal, Sligo or Leitrim.
And they dont have to be official ones!!
slieve league has a stretch of road where a new visitor centre is to be built..its a nice run down hill, but ..you gotta climb it first, something like 600 feet? well, the peak of slieve league.have some pictures, will try get them up later.
over at glencollumbcille, theres the tower + drum loop? ..anyway, the hill with the telecoms mast is good craic goin down, and you can head into the old port from here too - its mainly for walkers, but didn't say bikes weren't permitted.the tower path is rough..and dangerous, but i went down it
went down mount errigal too, but it was rubbish..too many rocks and then just bog near the bottom, stopping all the time.
from the north side of glenveagh is a walkers path, its not bad..providing you have someone at main entrance to collect you.
glen gesh pass is a nice run down hill also, just before ardara.
mamore hill in inishowen?
Ards Forest park is not bad either, theres probably loads of places.. i'm mainly interested in long/fast steep decents rather than dirt tracks, so i was checkin out mountains you could potentially cycle up or down and slieve league was the best one i found yet..but thats probably because there is a visitor centre being built and a road/path is being cleared.
it was on my mind recently to start a website on mountain biking in donegal, as there seemed to be a lack of info..but i'll check out the sites mentioned now.
btw: some parts of letterkenny are not bad either.0 -
I was up around the Ardara peninsula last week and took in a bit of mountain biking along the way.The best option is to just buy an OS map of your region and look for tracks on mountains.I only found 2 routes while I was out there but there is a possibility of a third near Glengesh(I didn't exactly have the energy after climbing the steep side of Glengesh :P)
I'll put up the OS co-ordinates for anyone interested and a few photos of the tracks.John has already covered the first track going from Glencolmcille into Port.It starts from 539-859 on OS map 10 and follows a well paved track to the mast where it at first follows rocky double track,then grassy double track and then some more rocky track into Port.
The track is the green line running diagonally here
Top Doubletrack
Grassy Doubletrack
Bottom Bit
The second is a track which descends down by the side of Assarnacally Waterfall.It is reached from the road beside Lough Naloughraman at 672-894.This ones quite fast and fun.It follows nice grassy doubletrack at the start before it reaches two steep switchbacks.Then it gets a bit faster and rockier before you're shot out beside the Ardara-Maghera road.
The dark line running diagonally from right to left is the track,you can just about make out the two hairpins in the mid-left of the photo.
Start of track
Grassy Descent
First Switchback
Bottom
The other track is at 656-817 and looks very interesting too.An idea for anyone that's up that way.Thanks for those suggestions John,next time I'm up there I must try some of those other routes.0 -
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When i was in the regional, we had a downhill mountain bike club, we used to do a good bit of training in drumboe woods in stranorlar, there is some very good trails in the hilly section on the right hand side of the road, these is also a little know downhill mountain bike track near killross, its savage craic but a bit dangerous if you go full tilt at it without first waliking it, i broke a few bikes up there (belonging to the college
), there is a small road on your left about 200yards after you turn right at killross heading for ballybofey, its about 1.5 miles up there to the bottem of the trail its a mud track though to get to it, its starts at a tower, can't remember the name on it now, on the top af a hill up there maybe some of the more local people could let ya know the proper name and if you need permission to use it? 0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »I was up around the Ardara peninsula last week and took in a bit of mountain biking along the way.The best option is to just buy an OS map of your region and look for tracks on mountains.I only found 2 routes while I was out there but there is a possibility of a third near Glengesh(I didn't exactly have the energy after climbing the steep side of Glengesh :P)
I'll put up the OS co-ordinates for anyone interested and a few photos of the tracks.John has already covered the first track going from Glencolmcille into Port.It starts from 539-859 on OS map 10 and follows a well paved track to the mast where it at first follows rocky double track,then grassy double track and then some more rocky track into Port.
The track is the green line running diagonally here
Top Doubletrack
Grassy Doubletrack
Bottom Bit
The second is a track which descends down by the side of Assarnacally Waterfall.It is reached from the road beside Lough Naloughraman at 672-894.This ones quite fast and fun.It follows nice grassy doubletrack at the start before it reaches two steep switchbacks.Then it gets a bit faster and rockier before you're shot out beside the Ardara-Maghera road.
The dark line running diagonally from right to left is the track,you can just about make out the two hairpins in the mid-left of the photo.
Start of track
Grassy Descent
First Switchback
Bottom
The other track is at 656-817 and looks very interesting too.An idea for anyone that's up that way.Thanks for those suggestions John,next time I'm up there I must try some of those other routes.
Great post.
Have been looking for a track and will give this a try soon
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