Freeride Junkie - Okehampton Northshore Trails
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Two of the Freeride Junkie crew, Stu and AJ, headed down to cornwall last weekend for a mate's stag do, with the majority of the lads planning a surf trip. They had other plans. Stu's account of the trip is below.
'You can't drive all that way and not visit Okehampton and/or The Track! Unfortunately we only had time to hit one and Okehampton was closer. We printed a trail map from the Okehampton riders website and decided to hit the trails first. Unfortunately we struggled to find some of them, but what we did find had a few hits on it. Main problem though was the amount dog shit covering the place! Because of this we bailed the trails after a while and headed to the Northshore area.
To be honest I wasn't expecting great things, but how wrong I was! As you follow the trail a lower section of Shore leads you into the main area with seesaws, drops and a wall ride. From here there are a number of lines that drop down the hill. These were where it's at. There's a big drop down leading to a step up and a bit of cork screw. A dragon's back section that leads to either a skinny section with a sideways moving seesaw or a longer flowing line with seesaw and step down. We hit the lot (only sideways seesaw catching us out - locals reckon it's never been cleaned!) and had an amazing days riding in the sun followed by many beers back in Bude!'
I called in at Okehampton northshore myself 12 months ago on the way down to Cornwall on a surf trip. Unfortunately just had the surfboards with us so no riding was done but it did look sweet as!! I would deffinately recomend anyone that lives within a couple hours drive of it to check it out.
Click here for location and more information about Okehampton Northshore
.jpg "Okehampton northshore dragons back AJ")
.jpg "Okehampton north shore corkscrew Stu")
.jpg "Okehampton north shore wall ride AJ")
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