If back before 4pm tomorrow might miss The Rain
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Any reports on on the Capital Trail? Bill was talking it up on thursday! Limited pics I've seen look great!
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@Sheeptoucher/Tardy I suppose there will be a report from IWRATS and/or Iain McR on Monday. Yesterday was great :)
@gembo tonight they stay in Peebles, so will get at least some of that rain. However it looks like the Borders won't be getting as much of the rain during the day.
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2moro's rain looks solid until 1500. Will decide in the morning but suspect may bail. Pointless of is a miserable slog.
Friday was epic.
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Bus back from Peebles with bikes? Is this a reality?
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There is a bike bus to and from Peebles. I opted instead to cross the Pentlands by the Red Road and follow the Water of Leith, the canal and the Innocent to the Dalriada where a baffled but pleased young man took my picture with my camera. He'd never used one before. I am old but not yet too old.
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Never too old to use a camera
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Are you sure it was the camera that baffled him, and not the enthusiastic approach of a damp, hairy & windswept man on a purple bike?
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Much colder than I expected Friday night, glad I took the bigger bag.
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@unhurt
I smelled like a wet dog and I was a bit shell-shocked too. Have to admit there was nothing conventional about me. Guy did well though - offered re-shoot after picture checking. Felt sorry for the baffled tramp without so much as a smart phone.
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Maybe he thought you were a time traveler from 2005, least it wasn't a film camera!
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offered re-shoot after picture checking.
He stuck around long enough to get them developed? Or is your camera one of they new-fangled "polaroid" types?
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I assume Iwrats carried his camera thus: http://www.piercevaubel.com/cam/catalogimages/obrig1899lp663-38-39-small.jpg
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James Hayden, twice winner of the TCR, gave the Highland Trail 550 a go last week, having never ridden a mountain bike before
While some may balk at racing through this country, everyone should be able to identify the idea of giving something new a try, especially as this video demonstrates off-road incapability.
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He finished a very respectable 6th overall.
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That race must be really quite hard. Nice handlebars. And good to see him flying over them into a river. That's what I always think is going to happen.
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Looks like Markus Stitz of Capital Trail fame in that first still.
Lee Craigie's book recounting one of her rides of it makes for good reading (Joining the Dots (I think))
I wonder what percentage of that race is spent carrying the bike and off that how much is carrying through rivers, waist deep in freezing water!
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Marcus was certainly riding it.
This is the first year I've followed it to some extent. They had some grim weather...Posted 5 years ago # -
I think a lot of that route would be unrideable for me. I mean, if Lee Craigie's pushing her bike, I'd need a helicopter.
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Not strictly speaking bikepacking but another route that might be interesting.
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That's a nice route. I walked up there in winter once many moons ago and it is high and wild. Easy to get lost I suspect.
Aeriel view on Bing maps suggests that, contrary to the Explorer OS map's evidence, the path may actually be continuous between Carn an Tuirc and Cairn of Claisie.
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Not strictly bike related... I really need a blog.
Some trips are sent to try you.
Did my fastpacking trip from Peebles to Gala, (run/walk) with camping gear. I felt very incongruous on the tram in my running gear, worse when I got to Peebles and discover it was gala day (place was mobbed). Walk/run over the tops on the drove road was lovely, seen a few mtb on the decent to Peebles but other wise had the hill to myself. Somewhere between the dull road section to Traquair and my camp for the night in the middle of nowhere I lost my filter bottle and half of the water I had for the night. Used as little as possible to make my noodles but was going to be short for the morning.
Ran/walked (getting more walky)to the three Brethren after getting packed up enjoyed view before running down the SUW (lovely bit of trail running) stopped at the first burn to make breakfast and boil some water. After searching my bag for a good 10 minutes I couldn't find my fire starter so no breakfast and no water. While repacking my bag the zip failed, zip runs down the front for easy access (apparently). Had to cut bits off the bottom to get it to mate up and held with a couple of safety pins.
After descending the hill I walked/ran the dull road section before heading off deep into very dull farming territory. Walked into gala downed a 2l bottle of water and got the bus home.
Advantage over bikepacking is the bus ticket is a mere £9 for a 24 hour open ticket and you don't have to time it for the accessible bus. Down side... My feet hurt.
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We were in Peebles too yesterday and had to divert a couple of times but as on bikes we could use the footbridge over the Tweed.
our route which I am calling The Skinny Inners went from blerno to Pennicuik then west linton moor road then left before west Linton to Lamancha via Macbiehill. Great descent. Then along the A701 back the way for a wee while until we turned up onto the Shiplaw road (the easy way). Stopped at the top where the silver Airstream caravan sits. Observed the observatory for the first time. Usually coming the other way I am too gubbed to notice much. This observatory is also where the west Linton to peebles drove road joins the Tarmac. Descent to main road and Eddleston and up the meldon climb. Again many signs for this drove road off the Meldons road. Pushed on to Peebles then Cadrona and stopped at no 1 peebles road where they tried to suggest that hadn't made their Pecan Pie for two years now. This I doubt. Back up the granites and home via Carrington and Roslin Glen. Except when we reached Currie we were at 76 miles and double bluffed ourselves into going up the Kirkgate very slowly.
Grand morning out has to be said.
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After searching my bag for a good 10 minutes I couldn't find my fire starter
Did you not forget your beer the last time?
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Did you not forget your beer the last time?
Yeah, this trip was only trying, last one was a complete disaster!
I did actually find my fire starter it was in my evening trackies.
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Evening trackies? I'm very tempted to pack a tuxedo for wilderness dining some time.
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Summer Solstice over-nighter with the kids this weekend.
Porty to Pentlands via Musselburgh, Dalkeith, not quite Penicuik and down to Flotterstone. Camped between Glencorse and Loganlee.
Sunday we took the Green Cleugh through to Threipmuir, Harlaw, WoL from Currie to Roseburn, NEPN to Leith and back to Porty.
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Most excellent adventure. That's one of my favourite loops - but I've never spent the night in the Pentlands despite meaning to for years.
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That looks like a grand spot urchaidh nice route too.
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@steveo great idea for a trip and definitely sounds like 70% of the fun is in retelling! Well done pressing on regardless!
@IWARTS Ahem!
PBT by Bill Harriman, on Flickr
(It's from an annual dress-up 3 day walk in our bushwalking club)Posted 5 years ago # -
@iwrats when Shackleton made it to South Georgia from Elephant Island, they were on the wrong side of the glacier. Shackers decided instantly to change into his dinner suit and scramble over the glacier. In order to arrive at the whaling station in the correct attire.
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