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We carried our water, I doubt there's much that way that's OK even with a good filter. Filled up our bottles in NB before heading out to camp.
Struggled to get a fill the next morning, Bostocks tap was offline and they won't take bottles or other containers to fill due to COVID. They tried their best, gave us lots of cups of water, huge waste of cups though. Plenty shops in Haddington, though it pains me to pay for water.
Much like Culben sands then. US style bike-packing with 5kg of water on board.
Looks fantastic, the kids must be buzzing.
@urchaidh I see your prayers to st aiden and st cuthbert were answered with major twilwimd out and minor tailwind back you lucky man
Filter THEN chlorine tabs has been my N American approach at times... Not much use for nasty run-off mind.
@gembo that point was well noted, we were incredibly lucky with the weather. We sacrificed a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer to St. Baldrick in offerance for a fair wind on Sunday, which is probably what swung it.
We got the kids to turn around at Longniddry on Saturday and cycle back for a bit just to experience the headwind.
@urchaidh if only Croesus had given a tunnocks Carmel wafer as payment to the oracle at Delphi instead of all that gold he may have held back from invading Asia Minor?
Like your training methods - turn round so you know what it will be like tomorrow if we do not offer St Baldred your tunnocks
Aye, and it's back to a 30kph westerly today. Lucky doesn't do it justice. The gods truly like a Tunnocks.
A few pictures...
Lovely
Big smile.
Very nice.
Funnily enough I found that Dangerous Ford on Sunday too. I went over the bridge.
Looks great. I don't think I've seen that ford before.
The local (?) Police didn't seem to know about it either.
We wouldn't let the kids cycle through it, so they went over the bridge for a second picture to make it look like they had.
Just as the kids were sorting themselves out on the other side, the police turned up on my side in a 4WD. They asked if the kids had cycled across. We thought they'd be right on to social services so explained they hadn't and it was all a setup.
Turns out they weren't sure if *they* could drive across so were wondering how they kids had got on.
They hummed and hawed for a bit then went for it. It was very low, they were in a big 4WD and they were fine.
4X4 got struck in the ford at the bottom of our road. Drew quite a crowd and the emergency services. Not sure what happens when the people who get stuck are the emergency services.
Car adverts have a lot to answer for.
I was going to say you'd think the Polis would be able to read a depth gauge, but the way they're installed, it's not clear they tell you anything useful.
V. sad story behind the installation of those signs IIRC
Had a quick bivvy out at North Esk Reservoir last night, through the pentlands over the red road and along the ridge of Green Law and Spittal Hill. Ended up pushing a bit over that last ridge its a bit steep and soft with a loaded bike and my general (lack of) condition.
This morning I went home via the "yellow brick road" a new one for me heads west just after the red road turns south. But to get there I made the cardinal error of following the sign instead of my route. Forty minutes of hike a bike on the walkers path on the shoulder of Cock Rig. The map shows a double dotted line on the other side of the burn and when that intersected it looked like pristine manicured gravel. Figures. I'm guessing this is part of the same work the land owner has carried out on the Red Road.
Thought this might interest some folks on here.
https://watertogo.eu/offers/#active_bottle_offer
I much prefer a filter bottle to the pump style, its easier to just fill the bottle and drink from it or filter to an additional container if need be.
How did you know it's almost my birthday??
"I know from conversations with rangers and outdoor activities instructors, many of whom have engaged with so-called dirty campers, that many are cutting live wood and leaving litter out of genuine ignorance."
C'mon, pull the other one. Who do they think picks it up after them? The litter fairy?
It can be hard to imagine what other people think. I can testify that people have some genuinely strange ideas about the outdoors.
I would not be surprised to learn that some people think there's a cleaner comes round the shores of every loch in the Trossachs. Also that some people just don't give a monkey's but not many.
Think that is what you call a garden path sentence. The anaphoric reference point for the ignorance is the Live Wood not the litter.??
"Anaphoric". Learning for the day.
My mother hosted a Hungarian teenager last summer. She was delighted by seals seen from a boat trip on the Forth - and wanted to know if they were wild or tame animals. You'd be surprised what people can just not know.
Related (maybe) - reading a book by a bryologist recently she noted that in the US the average person can only name ten plants. This ten included "categories" like "Christmas tree".
I believe a lot of people also have no mental yardstick for the speed of things like tree growth.
Yes, same but for the Chanonry Point dolphins.
I learned of the word "dendrochronologist" in one of Roald Dahl's books. It may have been in the context of Wonka-Vite, and thus in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, but I can't remember exactly.
Based loosely on the rapha tour but starts and finishes at Slateford rather than messing around in town. I was thinking of a bivvy at Linn Jaw, the waterfall about 30k in but its only 30km in it leaves a big following day. Though it looks like there might be a few opportunities after livingston for a camp/bivvy.
Not sure what conditions will be like under wheel and don't know what peoples feelings are for cold, dark rides.
Cairnpapple hill camping ?
Hmmm, bivvy on ancient burial site. Maybe that will convert Iain.
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