Thursday, May 07, 2020

Time Has Come Today


Time has come when I can leave the house, shop and be back indoors before 0830 leaving the rest of the day free. High teens and light easterlies suggested a longer trip to northwest Surrey which I call Goveland. Much will be familiar; I could have turned at Windlesham and/or Chobham but decided to continue to Lightwater where a north-south bridleway leads towards Bisley. I've never dared to include it in an organized ride.

The first section runs beside Greyspot Grenade Range (quiet). It yielded one fast disappearing roe deer and a "Soldiers in training Please clean up after your dog" sign. The surface is heathland and stony not improved by a top dressing of one inch clinker in places; definitely easier N-S.

In contrast the next section can be watery and/or muddy but not today. It was a Flytippers’ heaven but “FC” gates may stem the flow of new material though not scramblers. Ford Road has no ford so after the new build of the east end of West End I detoured past an abandoned(?) caravan site to a ford many will recognise. Chobham, Ottershaw, Weybridge, etc rounded off the day.



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