Surrey Hills guided MTB ride - Pitch Hill/Holmbury Hill/Leith Hill

I'm a reasonably long time lurker on the forum and a more recent poster and have been perusing the threads about organised offroad rides in place such as Epping Forest but could not see any on the Surrey Hills. So in the interests of contributing to the forum and meeting some of its denizens I'd like to propose a guided ride for those that are interested. I know the trails well enough to guide through some of the best the area has to offer (though some secret gems shall have to stay shaded...).
The plan would be to go for mid-July on a Saturday, say, the 18th or 25th (though I'm flexible on this.)
We can arrange to meet at Gomshall train station at around 10am and ride to Peaslake, head up to Pitch Hill, then over to Holmbury Hill, over onto Leith Hill with an obligatory tea and cake stop at the tower, and finally back to Dorking to catch the train (they are far more regular from Dorking main station than Gomshall).
This route will take between 4 - 5 hours on a good day but if there are many not used to the riding and the trails we can allow for up to 8, at a more leisurely pace.
The route will take in the usual suspects of Proper Beau, Curly Wurly, Graveyard Run, Supernova, Barry Knows Best, Yoghurt Pots, Reservoir Dogs, the Quarry, and more, then finally onto the only waymarked official MTB trail, Summer Lightning.

Trail choice can adapted to the general ability and confidence of the riders gathered. I would suggest a halfway decent MTB, a helmet, and a desire for digging in on punchy, steepish climbs on the connecting fire roads between trails. I have seen the odd cross bike on the trails though I generally wouldn't advise it for the ones we might do.

If anyone is wants in please register your interest here and let me know what dates are best in July, the 18th or 25th we are aiming for.

Having been roady-ing through this area for a couple of years now, I was hoping someone would start something like this- in. Prefer 18th, but either would do.

Sounds good! It's worth starting an 'Event' on here too, as I expect quite a few would be interested :-)

I'll throw my hat in the ring, as long as our mutual (now bearded) friend can braze dem guides.

Looking forward to a bit of Off-Roadin'

Alrighty! Hopefully will get some more on board and create an event.

IIRC @D_Mars has some skills. Beware!

I would also be keen, sounds great.

Very interested! Can't confirm date preference just yet but major Chapeau for offering to put this on.

Tidy. It's great to have some interest, just let me know here which date suits best for everyone once you guys have more of an idea.

Awesome, definitely up for that! Any weekends from mid-July onwards are good for me!

either is good for me ( better blow cobwebs off my Whyte)

Nice one guys, happy to see quite a few peeps looking to go. I'll wait till the weekend and then create an event thread and post the link here. Those of you that haven't just let me know before Friday whether Saturday the 18th or 25th suits.

Event now created here: https://www.lfgss.com/events/871/

Nice one!