Nice trip to South Shields and back through the Cleadon hills, a favourite this one.
Heading off from the shop we head down river to the sea then along through seaburn to Latimers fish Deli. Everybody is warm by now so from then then on the ride gets better. Nice single track past the firing range (duck and cover) and on past Souter light house and then the Grotto. Now its a big loop along the cliffs to Trow Quarry round and back to the Grotto. We cross the road now and head up hill along the edge of the golf course, over lizard lane and up another tech climb to the top of redwell quarry. The riding here is amazing , exposed rock, long grass, spikey things ''it's great !!''.
After a short ride round the quarry we drop down and left past the famous white horse, painted 2650 yeas ago by the sand dancing tribe (so we're told) and kept going by locals with spare gloss after a springclean. Then onto cleadon hills, down the dip up the steep thing and down through a cool single track section to the bottom corner of the hills, over the style we found a fab track edging a field which eventually brought us out on Wellands Lane in Whitburn. That was the good bit over with, now we just had to head back up to the shop the way we came...cool ride , good company..
The White Horse of Cleadon is visible from er, Cleadon...
Micksa and Alistair are treated to one of their favourite tunes
by Urban Fox and his customised nose flute
Fox Leader's new top attracted some admiring glances
