http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Bit of an adventure on way home en Tue, 19 May 2026 06:41:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221277 Sat, 28 May 2016 09:54:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 221277@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As I blob-o-jogged up through the field beside the Howe Dean Path from the Hermitage towards the summit of Braid Hill in the fog yesterday I came across a father and son pushing heavy steel MTBs up the hill. I saluted their indefatiguability and wondered what challenge they had undertaken. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221239 Fri, 27 May 2016 18:24:31 +0000 chdot 221239@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://road.cc/content/news/191621-do-you-have-your-own-hill-quest-cotswolds-cyclist-looking-tick-almost-600-local" rel="nofollow">http://road.cc/content/news/191621-do-you-have-your-own-hill-quest-cotswolds-cyclist-looking-tick-almost-600-local</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221205 Fri, 27 May 2016 14:25:57 +0000 cb 221205@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>WC, I was just pedantically making the point that the toposcope on Braid Hills isn't at the top (the top of the hill is further east at the phone mast).<br /> I'm not sure if the actual summit of Corstorphine Hill is known, hill-bagging.co.uk marks one of the summity bits further to the north.</p> <p>Believe it or not there are people who go out to resolve these issues with Abney Levels, high precision GPS devices and too much spare time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221158 Fri, 27 May 2016 11:19:00 +0000 I were right about that saddle 221158@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cb</p> <p>Craigmillar Hill has a castle and kestrels and a herd of deer and a pair of buzzards and a patch of northern marsh orchids and a man who hunts with a goshawk and its Tumpness or otherwise...harumph. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221157 Fri, 27 May 2016 11:14:21 +0000 I were right about that saddle 221157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Wilmington's Cow</p> <p>I think I'll give it a shot too, using the traditional Seven Hills Race checkpoints and route. Hideously unfit at the moment - might struggle to beat my best running time..... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221155 Fri, 27 May 2016 11:07:19 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 221155@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'True summits'?</p> <p>Pretty sure I did on Braids and Corstorphine, but obviously not on Castle Rock.</p> <p>That was a good day out - I think I'll try it again one day with the cross bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221150 Fri, 27 May 2016 10:42:39 +0000 cb 221150@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Craigmillar Hill isn't even a <a href="http://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/Tumps.php">Tump</a>, and doesn't even have a name, does it? Did you just make one up?</p> <p>Don't think I read that seven hills report at the time, although I remember the pre-amble thread.</p> <p>Don't think the true summits of Braid Hills, Castle Rock, or possibly Corstorphine Hill were reached, mind you it's quite expensive (£16.50?) to get to the summit of Castle Rock these days. I've been several times this year with HS membership. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221120 Thu, 26 May 2016 21:49:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 221120@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot</p> <p>:-)</p> <p>(Though I'd sulk if I was Craigmillar Hill. Where have all the middle class people gone?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221117 Thu, 26 May 2016 21:22:46 +0000 chdot 221117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Seven Hills Ride Report"</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1659" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1659</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221115 Thu, 26 May 2016 20:50:48 +0000 I were right about that saddle 221115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>I've often mused on how quickly I could get a bicycle round the Seven Hills course. You've just done part of it I think. Which was brave. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221111 Thu, 26 May 2016 20:37:33 +0000 gembo 221111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At one bit in the grounds of the hospital/university there was a clearing n the trees and a great view of Edinburgh from a very steep vantage point </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221109 Thu, 26 May 2016 20:05:57 +0000 Greenroofer 221109@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That was a 'courageous' route choice. The only way I can think of to make it harder would be to go <strong>through</strong> the gorse bushes on Craiglockhart Hill rather than round them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16442#post-221102 Thu, 26 May 2016 18:34:42 +0000 gembo 221102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Clad in shorts and bootees with two panniers I set off from macdowall road and made my first mistake at morningside cross. Should have jinked up the back way and crossed comiston road at Greenbank. Instead ended up going along morningside drive. Which was fine. Should then have cut down to the roundabout at greenbank but instead went through the closed Napier campus at craighouse. Wooft as Archie McPherson would have said. Steep up, steep down, Lorra Lorra steps as cilla black would have said. Ended up where I wanted to be at craiglockhart lights, still some roadworks at firrhill but nothing much apart from usual drivers.</p> <p>I have deleted all their shenanigans and also the pouring rain but at least the wind was behind </p>