Cannock trip on Sat April 8th

After a recent spate of blogs about good times in Cannock Chase, a number of the Westoning crowd are feeling left out and are keen to give it a try themselves. Saturday 8th April seems to be the date that the following posse have passes for;

• Brumster
  
• DangerousDave
• Darren
  
• Dozer
• Farqui
• Les
  
• Rob
• Mick (guide)
  

Unfortunately, both Uphilla and Sicknote have indicated that they wouldn't be able to make this trip. If anyone else is interested in tag'g along then please chime in - perhaps the Notts posse are available ?

Rather than just whiz around the sort but sweet Follow the Dog trail (sw-ish corner of the map), we might try something like this WhatMTB inspired route that takes in some of the northern trails. Though Uphilla tells me that much of this particular route is on bridleway and not much tasty singletrack. Perhaps DDave can help us explore a little ? I expect he'll also be keen to get us XC boys over to the DH section for a play.

I'm hopeful that April will see the trails a little drier than they have been of late. Although a few wks ago I did manage to get around on a set of pads and still have some life in 'em. This notorious gloopy section that helps make the FtD trail eat brake pads in wet weather - has now been replaced with a nice swoopy, singletrack wrestle through the trees, which is much more fun and much less abrasive.