TET Salisbury area

[HedgeHopper]

Going to have a day out on the plain wednesday, never been there before and to make things easy thought I'd just do the Salisbury section of the TET, but the more I look at it the more it seems to miss out lots of good stuff (I know from experience that the South Wales part of TET misses loads of trails)

Just wondering if anyone with local knowledge can confirm whether or not following the TET route would be a bit of a wasted opportunity
(I'll be on a KTM 690)

Ta

[Tramp]

Check the army arent playing as normally its weekends that no red flags are up...its like a arid hard dust bowl at moment 30c too.... ....best time is soring and autumn after lots of rain...most of the local trails are very over grown and the rutts are hidden....

Mind you wales aing no better...

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[HedgeHopper]

Ta for the link, I'll watch out for red flags and stuff, know what you mean about the lack of mud, found one solitary tiny puddle on the roman road by llandovery yesterday and I think the little splash it made was it's last

Hopefully the heat will put off the hooligans from spending too much time farting about in their tanks (or do they have aircon these days?)

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[herman]

We were up there last Weds and the only things open were the major tracks as they are coming to the end of a major exercise which is ending towards the end of July. If you are happy with the perimeter track and the old Marlborough road then all is good. The extreme bit of nine mile river is always open. The henge byway is shut too probably to sweep up Druid droppings. The smoke centre of my pic is due to shelling. DSC01425 by herman munster, on Flickr edit some of the more northern end is not being used for example the Figheldean byeways and I think the TET uses the north end a fair bit making its way over to Basingstoke via the Harrow way which will be open and very easy.

[HedgeHopper]

Many thanks for the info, on balance after reading up on the schedule for the excercises I have decided to postpone the trip, which probably means when I do next find time to go it will be wet
Thanks both

[Brenhden]

This was Salisbury on Saturday. It looks like a bush fire.

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[Richard Simpson Mark II]

Many thanks for the info, on balance after reading up on the schedule for the excercises I have decided to postpone the trip, which probably means when I do next find time to go it will be wet
Thanks both

Loads of lovely trails in and around Wiltshire that don't involve MoD land.

Shaftesbury Drove and Ox Drove (both to the south of Salisbury) for starters.

[zimtim]

Part of the Oxdrove last year, it got a lot worse than that very deep ruts and immensely overgrown, not one for the faint hearted or on your own.
WP_20170614_006 by Tim Bartels, on Flickr

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

The last time I rode the Shaftesbury Drove, I had three cattle burst out of the hedge beside me...the horns of one of them just brushed me as she passed.

Great routes both...but take it steady if you are on your own.