Alun Powell made this excellent video of his ride at the Hunton Treasure Hunt event – the cold and a bit windy balanced out with blue skies and sunshine just to show what a good morning it was to be out on your bike. Perhaps this might encourage you to come along to the next event at Tadcaster on December 12th starting from the Coach & Horses.  Thanks Al!

Thanks to all who voted in our favourite event poll for 2015 – the April event in Nidderdale was the clear winner….

favourite event poll 2015

Here are the results from yesterday

Hunton results

Fortunately, the forecast was correct so the wind died down and the sun came out but it was still too cold for our feet to stay dry. Thanks to Jens for another excellent map but I must apologise for marking #22 in the wrong place! Thanks to Tony and his staff at the Countryman Inn for a warm welcome – especially afterwards. Congratulations to the category winners especially in the very competitive Generation class. I thoroughly enjoyed my ride as usual but, looking at the snow further up Wensleydale, I  was glad that the highest control on our course was at 268m. My route was        3 20 27 22 11 21 15 16 10 29 12 23 9 5. Please can you comment and add your routes? Hope to see you at our next event at Tadcaster on 12th December

Here’s the blank map for Hunton on Saturday, entries here, details and flier here – fingers crossed for a dry day…

As you can see, there aren’t many bridleways on the map but plenty of quiet country lanes which is just as well considering the recent wet weather. All types of bikes are welcome but you will need a mountain bike to get to 6 of the controls. We have only got 20 pre-entries. Online entries close at midnight on Wednesday so that Jens can print enough maps and 10 spare for entry on the day. It’s just started raining yet again but the forecast for Saturday is cool but dry with sunny intervals although there will be a 15 mph northerly wind so bring plenty of kit. Hope to see you there.

**updated Tuesday – clicking on the map now opens the full version **

2015 Hunton TH Working Drawing without Controls

Winter2015 _Poster_v2The four winter treasure hunt events are:

1. November 21st – Countryman’s Inn, Hunton, Near Bedale DL8 1PY
2. December 12th – Coach & Horses, Tadcaster LS24 8AA
3. January 30th – White Bear, Stillington YO61 1JU
4. February 20th – The Royal Oak, Staveley, Knaresborough HG5 9LD

Here’s the poster – if you’re able to display this at your local bike shop, cafe or any other suitable location please do so – we always welcome a few more riders.

As mentioned in the email newsletter last week, if you have any ideas for promotion & publicity – please do let me know, either comment on this post or send me an email here