If you go down to the (Allestree) woods today....take a saw

Good session Sunday morning. Really quite slippery - the kind where when walking back up the track you can see the exact point where tyre marks turn into arse marks, but not surprising given the recent wet weather.  Top of the hill ran the quickest due to better drainage and with the predicted bad weekend weather there weren't too many dog walkers.  Unfortunately, recent winds seem to have blown over a few trees here and there including one across one of the main woodlands downhill tracks.

Fortunately, it was the upper end of the tree but it will still take cutting through around three 9 inch trunks and a load of shifting to clear, or at the very least a whole load of smaller branches to chop back so as to not get snagged on when bunny hopping the larger parts.  I'm hopeful that with a load of recent ranger development in the area that one of them will cut it down into manageable parts sometime soon, but since there has been signs going up around the top discouraging people from leaving the main paths, perhaps they will leave it alone.....Hence the need for a saw!

An upshot of all this was the new requirement to take a couple of slower, but more technical lines around the edge, which with the amount of woodland foliage led to some lovely deep drifting carves and as an alternative was arguably is more fun to that of the (would be quick but actually slow this time of year) line straight through the centre.

Still got a couple of runs in mind that I think will be running great given a bit of time and sunny weather, but in the meantime you've got to make the best of what you've got, and thankfully it's all good stuff.