Local off road ride with the Kids - summer hol time

Lovely and overcast but still warm going to work this morning but come dinnertime back to normal - blazing sunshine and red hot. This afternoons ride was with the kids for a local muck around on some offroad tracks. On the way down to Durham we went Foresters Way direction and havent been in that wood & hillside for many years. The last time i went down it was overgrown and the stream had washed away alot of the tracks. Well the remains of the dual slalom course are still there and scamblers have been ripping in new singletrack and clearing old ones. The pond is still down at the bottom full of old car tyres etc! For you local old school mtbers you will remember this area as Cycleforce 2000 did a couple of MTB XC races there many years ago.  

 

Defo be detouring back in there again to test out the singletrack before autumn sets in. We ended up a Frankland water side for the rest of the short ride into Durham City Centre. The Market Place was busy so had a ride out to Houghall / Maiden Castle area then back in to Durham for ice creams then a cruise home via Crook Hall  / Frankland Farm / Low Newton then back through teh estate.
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