So we need a midge-proof beer tent with an open fire, yes?
going to need a bigger boat.
https://www.nordicoutdoor.co.uk/tentipi-zirkon-7-cp.html
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CCE Overnight Capables
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Surely we'd want the 15-person model? Be ambitious!
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Very heavy duty delivery is on pallet :D
https://www.militarymart.co.uk/swedish-army-20-man-dome-tipi-tent/
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@steveo
"You need to get higher, midges generally give up at 500m :D" I've been midged (only once, admittedly) on the summit of a Munro...Posted 5 years ago # -
They must really like you :)
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I think it was someone on here who posted a link a couple of weeks ago to this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04tqk1n/secret-knowledge-the-living-mountain-a-cairngorms-journey
I can't find the post now, but thanks, whoever it was.
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Book's worth a read if you hivnae yet deent.
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I hinna yet, no. Ah div own a copy, bit ah lent it tae someone a file ago. Ah'll spier at them if they've feenished with it.
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Capital Trail / 200ish km
Friday 24th May, 3 days.
https://dashboard.hammerhead.io/s/ygemwxm6
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/7773565Not self-supporting, B&B/hostel or similar. Will probably arrange bag transport (the lovely MrsMcR) between accommodations so we don't have to carry stuff. I will be taking the overly complicated 29er so I can’t stray too far from a bike shop or rescue by car.
Anyone in ?
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Proposed speed? (I may have left on a mini epic round all six Scottish World Heritage Sites by bike & boat by then but if not...)
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Starts on Porty Beach, me and the kids will come and wave you off.
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@urchaidh
Delectably you seem not to believe the party will require welcoming back to Porty Beach. Truly prophetic.
@Iain McR
I'll consider coming if I'm allowed to cause a series of 'amusing' crises and then write a Three Men in a Boat style travelogue about falling in ditches, getting chased by cows etc.
@unhurt
If you cycle a pedalo to St Kilda you win the Overnight Capables thread for good.
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Mr fimm did the Capital Trail with a friend last summer.
I can offer some of his comments if people are interested (but maybe you would just like to go and explore).Posted 5 years ago # -
I've got something on sometime in May so I'll not get two passes. Have fun.
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@fimm
Be not shy. What did Mr fimm make of the trail? I have spotted one bit that doesn't really exist.
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Well, they particularly enjoyed the section over the Lammermuirs, and the Cross Borders Drove Road back from Innerleithen to the Pentlands.
However they found the climb up Dun Rig a complete PITA hike-a-bike and would not go that way again. They also left out the Innerliethen Red Route part of the route as 1) being a bit pointless/out of keeping with the rest of the route and 2) they didn't have time...(ETA I can probably find you Strava traces if you really want.)
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@ Fimm - does Mr Fimm like a beer ? I feel a session with maps and pints coming on.
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they found the climb up Dun Rig a complete PITA hike-a-bike
That is the bit I described as 'not existing'. There is a work-around.
I've run up there and it is quite intractable.
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Mr fimm does indeed like beer... I think I can persuade him to drink some with Random People Off The Internet...
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Capital trail adventure has moved from one of multiple possible daydreams that usually get binned and entered the realm of 'it is definitely probably on', possibly.
now investigating accomm:
Day 1 - Gala
Day 2 - Peebles.@fimm - I may start talking to random strangers in the pub in the hope I bump into Mr fimm.
all welcome.
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Bailing options for the slow & weak?
Good pubs at Gala / Peebs?
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I like the Tontine and the Bridge Inn in Peebles. Fascinated by the Neidpath Inn but never been inn.
Gala a toxic wasteland I believe.
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Gala has a good fish and chip shop; I went there once on my old VFR with the Curvy Riders. Tweedbank is a bit more of the wasteland than Gala, at least the railway station is.
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Riding a VFR through the Gala bends should be on anybody's list of life goals.
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bump...
Capital Trail / 200ish km
Friday 24th May, 3 days.
https://dashboard.hammerhead.io/s/ygemwxm6
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/7773565Not self-supporting, B&B/hostel or similar. Will probably arrange bag transport (the lovely MrsMcR) between accommodations so we don't have to carry stuff. I will be taking the overly complicated 29er so I can’t stray too far from a bike shop or rescue by car.
@ IWRATS, pub and map session needed pls.
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I can't PY this month (work trip). Can I come to the map beer meeting?
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I give map night my blessing. We can discuss new kit.
Summerhall midweek?
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The RockShox Reverb AXS, priced at £700, is SRAM’s first electronic dropper post.
I've read that 3 times and I'm still not sure I am reading it right.
Tues 19th @ Summerhall ?
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Any recommendations for nice bivvy/camp spots in the South East borders? My mate in Newcastle and I are always saying we need to do more overnighters, but half way is the lower Tweed Valley and from memory its not terribly interesting.
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Kielder, Hadrian's Wall (fun sleeping in one of the old forts?), Holy island/anywhere on the Northumberland Coast (meet at Alnmouth Station?).
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