Skills Loop

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About Skills Loop

Please note, due to construction of the new Go Ape adventure course, weekday diversions will be in place on trails throughout Glentress from Tuesday 29th May 2012. The following trail sections will be diverted Mon-Fri until 13th June 2012 but will remain open at weekends. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Mountain biking
The Dougie Bank Climb - affects Blue/red/black
Good Game Descent - Blue route

Walking
Partial sections of Buzzard's Nest Trail
Glen Trail - partial closures of Dougie Bank.

Diversions will be in place to direct walkers and bikers.

Glentress' 1.2km Skills Loop is a must for anyone who is new to the sport of mountain biking. It’s a user-friendly introduction, featuring classic “bite size” singletrack trails, and offers a simple, safe and not-too-long loop on which to build confidence and practice riding skills.

In short, it's a great place to learn what mountain biking’s all about, before heading for Glentress’ other trails.

It is 90% singletrack.

For more information, including trail conditions, please see the official 7stanes website.

How to get there:

Skills Loop can be started from Buzzards Nest Car Park in Glentress Forest which is part of Forests of the Scottish Borders. Peebles is the nearest town or village.

The car park is one and a half miles east of Peebles on the A72.

Once on forest road go past the Peel car parks and follow road uphill beyond Falla Brae car park. After about one mile, the road splits to the left uphill from the forest drive. The car park is well signposted.

Please keep to the 15mph speed limit.

OS Grid Reference: NT283397
For details of public transport visit http://www.travelinescotland.com