murder out there on the bike today but another stoic 40 km in the bag
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Saw lad going by Hoose on bike, slushy
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Lovely dusting of snow in Abbeyhill last night, about 3-4cm. White on car and house roofs, slushy on tarmac. All gone by the morning.
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We are getting more tonight and tomorrow
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Big soft flakes in EH6 just now. Don't need another shopping until tomorrow so might oil my chain and head out just to look at it.
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Heavier snow just now in Abbeyhill - sticking better than last time.
It's almost as though we live in a Northern European country...
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Winter wonderland here in. The hills.
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Snow in The Meadows
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Avalanche risk on Turnhouse Hill
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Restalrig Path has some dry bits, some fresh frost, some flat ice and some wibbly ice where the jellylike slush from earlier has re-frozen, particularly on the hairpin bends of the Hawkhill Ave slope. Lochend Butterfly Way mostly ice.
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@wingpig
respect due, to harassed lockdown parent, reduced to midnight ice-strewn escapades
sir, i salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability
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Mr fimm went cross-country skiing on Carrick Knowe golf course yesterday.
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Lost a Yaktrak on the way to the shop last night. Could not locate in the dark.
Scoured the icy streets at first light and found it hanging from a fence where a citizen had placed it.
Good news, because one was barely enough on the refrozen slushscape.
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@bax This was a slightly-extended shopping trip. Tend to stay off the bike paths on lunchtime child-airings as they're too busy. Definitely noticed the improved grip on the drive wheel on the way back when full of shopping. On the way there I had to choose between losing grip on the front or back. This lunchtime's childwalk might be a trip to the Hawkhill slope to scatter some GRIT/SALT with yoghurt cartons.
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Can I have an accessibility report from those on the south west of Edinburgh? Am planning a short ride out this afternoon - perhaps along the A70 to Auchinoon Brae (as I now know it's called) or up around the Harlaw/Threipmuir area.
I'll be on a bike with studded tyres, so smooth ice is not a concern. However I'm unenthusiastic about a narrowed A70 carriageway with a path ploughed through snow banks or covered in slush. I'm also unenthusiastic about too much riding on knobbly refrozen snow flattened by the feet of many walkers.
Advice sought for the best route for a 2hr spin from the Morningside area that's compliant with guidance on social distancing...
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I am hearing there is ice on the A70. I am contemplating spikes. But might stick with land cruisers.The snow plough has taken the snow out to the white line on the edges so the carriage way is the standard width you just don’t have any margin. There are no puddles in the dips they have drained. The drivers the last two days have been good. The temp is allegedly o degrees. The wind spinning the chimney granny is moderate.
Looked out window for you and saw no ice or snow on a70 from balerno traffic lights up to 575 LRW
Reports from runners on the Rigg road say there is ice. In patches. Likely only main road been gritted. Unhelpful ly I am waiting until same time as you but at least we can wave to each other
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Bits of ice on the Roseburn and NEPN. Nothing impassable. Huge puddle just under the Wardie Road ponding-spot, frozen at the edges. At Mark's path and park a bit frosty.
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A70 fine to Tarbrax. No need for spikes. My intel was from earlier this morning
Temps very low overnight and wind chill meant it was Baltic
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Great discovery of the day - a huge, and full, salt and grit bin straight across the road (of course, it's used for the tram stop).
The one I have been using is a couple of hundred meters away, on an ice floe, and has slim pickings as a rule.
I've been gritting and salting the pavement to popular acclaim (well, a couple of passers-by said thank you.)
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Thanks to the intel from @gembo, I had a lovely ride out on the A70. The views of snow-covered Pentlands were rather lovely.
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@Greenroofer, glad to hear this, the kips are looking majestical at the moment and the quickening was Modest today.
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The West Lothian Festival of Ice is on today. I went to Livi along A71 this morning. The road was fine and nice sections of mist/fog from Dalmahoy hotel onward. Since I have been taking A71 all the way to work for the past week I decided I could do with a little change and after Wilkieston I turned into the Calders. "Surely roads are fine by now" I thought.
I really enjoyed the fist few 100 metres as it was so quiet compared to really busy A71. But then I soon started noticing sections of ice and slush. And the further west I went the more of it there was. Cycling slowly following the tyre tracks (which there weren't many).
Before turning down to Livi I decided to get off the bike and walk since I know that section around the river can get quite bad. The pavements are covered in thick layer of ice and now with the surface moisture were super slippy. I decided to walk up to Asda and then cycle along the Boulevard of Dreams.Negotiating paths, roads and carpark was made extra difficult since it was all a sheet of ice. I had to pull myself (while holding the bike that was going all over the place in one had) up a ramp and jump over a fence. Once on the Boulevard of Dreams it was still slushy but mostly fine (and flat!). I dismounted the bike before heading into our work carpark which again was a moist sheet of ice.
Note to myself: never underestimate West Lothian and stick to A71 for now.
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Oof bill.
Anyone know how the Arthur's Seat high road is at the moment?
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@bill, very glad not the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
a70 fine to Carnwath but of course you work Livi.
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@jonty yesterday's warmth may have improved things, but when we went up on Saturday, we agreed we wouldn't cycle it (although some people were).
It is mostly clear (at least on the downhill), but at the top there were 2-3 really solid thick ice patches, where it looks like water had run across the road and frozen.
(can't assess the section between the big loch at the bottom (St margarets?) and the otter loch at the top (blanking its name too), as we were exploring various overland routes.
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@jonty it's was actually quite comical now looking at it. Dragging the bike along which was going one way and legs going their own ways :)
@gembo Did you cycle to the Apple Pie this morning?
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