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jimo746":zqvb66uc said:
Do you think they're still out there? Lost in the snow somewhere? :shock:
Not heard anything from those that attended yet, where's the photos guys? :?
Not heard anything as naebody turned up.
Well that's not strictly true.
I turned up , thankfully with four reliable friends. Davedh also turned up with two friends but they were planning on heading further out than we were, so set off on their own, swapping places with my group on the climb until we parted ways at Loch Ordie.
We carried on up the sunny, open west side of the loch and out towards the shooting lodge, then back over between the two hills on the boggy track we took a few years back. This was a bit interesting in places as overnight snow was covering the track and hiding soft boggy parts. At the bottom of the downhill, we were waiting to regroup and spoke briefly to a local who then disappeared down a bit of secret singletrack. Of course we had to follow and popped out at the top of Mill Dam, next to the junction that we split off at on the second part of the loop. Really nice section of trail and also means you don't have to ride the section past the boat house for a second time. From there we followed the usual loop and had a lovely clear day to enjoy the viewpoint at the top of the cliffs trail.
Weather was kind to us. We quickly cleared the freezing fog that was hanging around at car park level, and once up in the hills it was a nice still, sunny day. Ground conditions were pretty boggy in places but there was actually less standing water then when we were last up in November.
Shame nobody could make it. I know a lot of you couldn't help it and would rather have been there, but the rest of you need to stop making excuses and get of your lazy arses and ride :twisted: