Half Term this week and the weather was promising to be dry so on Thurday we headed down to Bodmin to check out the recently open trails at Cardinham Woods....
I'd heard lots of good things about Cardinham and seen a ton of pictures and videos since it opened and although there is currently just a 5 mile blue trail open a red run is currently under construction and due to be open soon.
Having never ridden here before and being quite keen to get going we quickly unpacked the bike and I had a quick look at the map before setting off on my first lap of the blue. I was supposed to be on a rest day in quite an intensive week of training so didn't go wild, just focussed on the flow and keeping it all neat and tidy :)
The blue trail starts with quite an aggressive climb up from the car park and then crosses up onto a fast flowing ridge section and then onto a fun descent before crossing the fire road and climbing up to the next ridge.
It was a bitterly cold day for riding with an east wind blowing like crazy and although the bottom of the trails are well sheltered once you climb up onto the ridge line it's pretty exposed.
The next section contains a really good mixup of fast rolling small descents and sharp climbs with a technical descent made up of tight switchbacks situated in the middle....a lot of fun!
The final part of the track finishes up with a small easy descent bringing you back to the car park.
Having only just opened the surface of the track was super smooth and pretty fast rolling and also very dry considering all the rain we've had recently!
We did another lap stopping to session bits and take some photos but it was super cold so we called it a day and headed home to get warm. All in all a really great fun trail to ride and I'll definitely be heading back there very soon when it's a bit warmer to smash out some proper quick laps :)
Strava info for the day can be found here.