Warning about Logging Near the windmill near Pitch hill.

There has been a near miss today at the logging site between Winterfold and Pitch Hill. A mountain biker was litterally 8 inches from death in the path of a falling tree. Brown pants all round. The machine operators do not have eyes in the backs of their heads, and although the normal warning signs for logging are in place, and apparently these meet the statutory requirements, bikers are still riding through.

Please keep out of this area until felling is complete. It is being clear-felled, apart from deciduous specimen trees.

The first part of Xmas Pud / Claw Hammer goes through this area, before it crosses the road. The site is the whole triangle contained by the track between the Windmill Car Park and the Judges Seat car park to the south, and the two converging roads north from these car parks.

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Comments

[Simon]

Any news on this?
I noticed some more logging has started on Holmbury which disrupts the shallow but entertaining descent

[Mark Hammond]

The Shere Estate is going to be clear felling large areas of the coniferous trees over the next few years. They will eventually be replaced with a wider range of broadleaved trees in the future(unlike the monoculture you have at the moment). So it looks like a number of the unofficial mountain bike tracks will have the same disruption.

While the Shere estate has an obligation to clear official tracks such as public footpaths and bridleways, they don't have to do this for unofficial mountain bike singletrack.