16/8 Single Track Heaven In the Surrey Hills

Whilst Steve and most of the other off roaders did Cissbury Ring I had arranged to meet a group in Surrey Hills. This is a different sort of ride as it involves a lot of singletrack riding.
Route we did starts below  Leith Hill .  After a short ride through woodland you get to the start of the first single track descent which is a fast winding track with lots of jumps a tight bends.
Then the ascent up to top of Leith Hill . Fantastic views from here as far as the south downs. The descent from Leith Hill is through a wood with no marked path but with some frightening drops and bowls.
You follow Greensands Way until you get to the top of Holmbury Hill again great views over to the downs. You then have another very long winding descent on singletrack to Homlbury village with its pub and shop that sells really nice pies. Then back up the hill and from top lots of singletrack  then follows more singletrack under the telegraph poles . This is one of the renowned descents for this area. back up to Leith Hill then lots of technical forest riding all the way back down to the car park.
Its about 3 hours riding this route, I forgot to start my garmin so missed the first singletrack section.
Only downside is its about 90 minute drive to get there but well worth it.
Came off twice and both times because of the clip in pedals , not easy getting out of these if you misjudge getting out of a bowl and start going backwards but then they are great for going down so feet don’t come off the pedals on the jumps

(Video kindly provided by Tim Heal)

Derek

Great Views From Leith Hill!