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Oxford Falls advice - Deep creek to Mona Vale road/Forest Way Supacentre


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By Tobi Wan - Posted on 07 November 2013

Hey all,

It turns out that my office is moving from Frenchs Forest to Belrose, so I'm looking for some advice on the best trails to use to get from Narrabeen/Deep Creek to the Belrose Supacentre..

I'm hoping to stay off the road as much as possible.

I did some preliminary trail scouting but found myself climbing from deep creek to the Bahai temple hill.. other than the sweet Deep Creek single trail it was unpleasant (pushing my bike up rocky escarpments most of the way) and i'd prefer to avoid that one being my daily commute.

I also checked out some strava routes and had it all planned, but then I saw on the trail list here that there's a bunch of trails in the Morgan Rd area which are off limits - eg Deep Creek single trail, Road to Somewhere and the XC loop.

My best guess from looking at the maps is the fire trail from Deep Creek to Power lines, Nursery Rhymes, Slippery Dip.. then ride on road to the 5mile creek trail which pops me out up the top.

I know the home trip will be entertaining, but am I kidding myself to think that this is an easy direction to go, am I trying to go uphill on a downhill course/area?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Little-Ditty's picture

As this is generally uphill, wouldn't it have been easier to stay on the road? It is the quickest, albeit admittedly boring, way to get from point A to point B.

obmal's picture

I'm pretty sure that this trail from Bahai that you speak of is "verboten"

Apparently there's also another one that pops you out near the intersection of forest way and mona vale road, but its also "naughty naught very naughty" to ride this.

Even if you could get to the slippery dip trail it takes you to deep creek, and there's no real legal way to get through that I know of?

Nice idea though, but I think even if they were legal trails there's perhaps some impracticalities to this
1> There's some awful HAB (thats hike a bike) up from the valley floor, the novelty may quickly wear off?
2> Its all sandy and lots of standing water most of the year down there so the wear and tear on your drive train would make it kinda expensive
3> its almost a statistical certainty that you going to have an off, as these trails are less frequently traveled it can mean a long time for someone to find you.

Again nice idea though..

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