Route Guide: Pinchinthorpe Circular
Distance: 20KM / 12 Miles
Difficulty: Medium.
Time: About 1 hour and 30 mins.

Starting with the Visitors centre on your left, head off down the track, passing 
the ponds on your left, you will shortly come to a low level metal gate across 
the forest road, there is then a steady climb into Bousdale wood. Passing the 
bench on our left at the top of this climb, follow this wide track until shortly 
after the loop in it where it rises to meet another track. take a right turn on 
to this track and follow the climb upwards. As this track begins to level out 
there is another steep climb to the left, follow this and at the top swing left. 
Follow this track through Blue Lake Wood until you come to a crossroads in the 
track shortly after a low level metal gate. At this crossroads take a right 
turn and climb up through the forest until you reach the open Moor at a wooden gate.

Follow this wide track across the Moor, past the abandoned Observation point and 
down to Lonsdale Plantation on our right. Enter the woods (or whats left of them) 
here, and follow the track down and through the gate on to the road and go straight 
on through Lonsdale Farm and up the steep on road climb. There is then a very steep 
descent on road through Bankside Farm, but make sure to stop at the cottage on your 
left, Sandbanks I think it is called. Enter the forest here and follow the bridleway 
through the forest. You will come out on Coates Moor, follow the track and you will 
enter a another wood for a short distance before coming out onto an open area, 
where there are some mining ruins and some technical tracks to mess about on. 
This is the Red Run.

Follow the track down across the fields going through a gate and some steep rooty 
section downhill until you come out on to the road. Go straight across the main 
road which leads left down to Great Ayton or right up to Capt Cooks. This minor road 
leads us up to Aireyholme Farm and we follow the track with good views of Roseberry 
Topping on our left. Going through the gate onto Roseberry Common we atke a right 
for a steep climb up to the small gate leading to Newton Moor, taking an immediate 
left here, follow the track for a short distance and re-enter Hutto Lowcross Woods 
and follow the track straight ahead of you. After a short distance the track peels 
off to the left for a nice downhill meeting up with a wider fire road at the bottom. 
Turn right here and after a couple of hundred yards take a left for a steep short 
downhill. You are now back on a track you have ridden up before. Take a right at the 
bottom of this track, some fast downhill, then a sharp left turn and follow this track 
all the way back to the Visitors Centre.

This route was downloaded from:
Mountain Bike Extreme - http://www.mtbe.co.uk