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Wingello State Forest - map
Hi - I am staying in the Southern Highlands this w/e and was planning on riding the Forest section of the Fling.
Q. Does anybody know where I can download or get hold of a good map?
Q. Is the trail well marked?
Q. Does anybody know how long this takes roughly - I think its about 50+ klms?
Woftt.
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It's all here mate http://nobmob.com/rides/wingellostateforest
Tom
A. You can get a decent map from Ye Olde Bike Shop (yes - that's really it's name) in Bundanoon village.
A. Some is - don't rely on that.
A. Depends how fast you ride. I would suggest parking at Base Camp and doing these two loops in this order, which only comes to 27Km:
http://nobmob.com/node/6435
http://nobmob.com/node/3466
If you want more, check out the full fling loop:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://trail.motio...
You could easily park at Base Camp and find your way to the first loop above, but then follow the Fling course past where the WWS ends and do Halfway Hill and Outer Limits. I haven't done this, but it looks like you could brake from the course with an East turn on Burnt Pine road back to the camp. That should be a real nice, long loop.
I was down there a couple of weekends ago in a MTB orienteering race. There is a 16k (I think)loop marked by red arrows which contains the really cool single track. There are details at the camp ground where it starts from.
Tony - there are little signs with bike markers on them dotted around the Forests course. On the whole its quite well signposted.
It took me about 4 hours with stops to do that Forests loop from Wingello - its about 54kms
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6287195
You could probably print this map out on A3 size paper if you want to save some dough.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://trail.motio...
Note there are a couple of spots where I took a wrong turn and had to double back and some of the entrances into single track were not that clearly marked (you should be able to see these on the maps I linked to)
Have fun
Thanks to Nick and all you guys who responded. I will post some photo's of the trail in its current condition and a summary of the ride when I return.
Woftt.
http://www.wildhorizons.com.au/highlandfling/ima...
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http://www.wildhorizons.com.au/highlandfling/ima...
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www.wildhorizons.com.au
Thanks again to all those who responded.
Well it rained hard both Sat and Sun nights and I went out on Monday morning to find the weather brewing again, but thankfully it held out. I decided to ride the 25k red loop. The trail was in A1 condition - super smooth on both firetrail and singletrack. I think my dualie would have been wasted if not for the downhill sections. I cruised around in 1.40min with some photo and food stops included.
Only one area I had a little trouble with was 3/4 of the way round I came to a big open area with large dirt mounds almost like a dirt bike jump park. No red signs anywhere to direct me!!! So I checked left and then right and decided to go right - thankfully I was correct! It's not like me - normally I would ride two hours in the wrong direction
for the Photo's go to this link.
http://picasaweb.google.com/blooper2007/Wingello...
Has anybody ridden the other parts of the fling, Penrose etc? And if so can you please give me your summary of the trail?
Cheers
Woftt