[/i]Yup, that is hike-a-bike territory. Very brave.[i]
How far round do you reckon I'd get before it went to pot? Probably won't go that way just entertains me drawing lines on maps rather than the grind I'm meant to be doing.
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Posted 6 years ago #
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entertains me drawing lines on maps.
Not just me then.
When I was a teenager, I spent many a winter's evening drawing a very long and convoluted LEJOG route that took in places/roads I'd seen on a map and fancied riding (e.g. the Welsh coast) and avoided all A-Roads (I didn't do main roads)
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience even if it didn't get past the dreaming stage.
(It got downgraded to a Coast to Coast adventure instead)
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I thoroughly enjoyed the experience even if it didn't get past the dreaming stage.
I'd love to have the ability, fitness and hill craft (and time) to be able to explore the lines on the map especially in the more remote areas.
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A rough stuff friend sent me a few photos but I can't host them, so have typed in the signs for info.
WARNINGDanger I Upper Glen Feshie
The usual path on the west bank of the river in Upper Glan Feshie has suffered minor erosion damage on a steep section above the river. The eroded sections are awkward to cross, and potentially dangerous especially for those carrying a cycle or heavy rucksac.
The only alternative route, other than retreat, is to ford the Feshie at least three times, and this is only practicable in dry weather.
In wet weather fords are extremely HAZARDOUS.
Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society.
http://www.scotways.comMy friend added that he had not done it but
'mate did it a few months ago and said it was okay but he had to push a fair bit and there was 2 biggish fords'.
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@DaveC
The upper Feshie path has been washed out for years, exacerbated by the 2015 deluge.
Care is now required to reach Ruigh Aiteachain from downriver but not fording as such. From upriver fording three times is required on a bike and all of these fords would be extremely unwise when in spate.
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@ IWRATS, yes, but its not always nice up there;
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Which ford is that Iain? Spirited cycling in any case. I treat the Feshie and its psycho pal the Eidart with great respect.
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That was the first of the two Feshie crossings, sometime after we passed the bothy @ Ruigh Aiteachain.
on the second crossing, 5 mins later, I hoisted the bike across my shoulder - that was far easier / less terrifying.
The previous time (about 5 years earlier so pre-Brexit vote) it was ankle deep. Draw your own conclusions.
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Somebody's going to have to pick a day from @steveo's range. Not me.
Looking good though with maybe five folk? Maybe a few overnight-curious folk too, quietly fiddling with tents and bungees?
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Can I suggest some direct democracy: vote for available dates here.
"Thus saith the POLL, I offer thee three weekends: choose thee one of them, that we may do it unto ourselves."
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big fan of the whole feshie / geldie confluence
up over the gaick as a dogged aperitif
overnighting at ruthven barracks
ruff and tumble days and nights
Posted 6 years ago # -
@bax
You up for this?
up over the gaick as a dogged aperitif
A high wild place and no mistake. Fit for neither man nor beast.
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"Thus saith the POLL, I offer thee three weekends: choose thee one of them, that we may do it unto ourselves."
I fear thyne poll mayleadth to a dead end
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@steveo
The new moon is on the 13th, full moon on the 28th. Sun barely under the horizon then mind.
The later we leave it the bigger and hungrier the eagle chicks are and the bolder, busier and more visible the adults.
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Late June bivvying isn't conducive to much sleep.(mid June isn't much better... Frankly January isn't either...)
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@steveo
Start at Nethybridge and you'll sleep fine. Bike-packing on rough ground is one of the few things that's ever caused me to take a late afternoon nap.
And somebody's bound to bring ketamine.
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Diazepam and red wine cocktails?
I'm already fretting about midges. @Snowy suggests everyone smoke cigars...
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@unhurt
Midges? Do you think the drovers of yore had access to head nets, Skin So Soft or cigars?
Did you not once cycle clear across Canna or something?
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Yes, and I still have the biting insect scars (mental and physical) to show for it. I'm a midge's favourite meal. Everyone else will probably be fine while the wee monsters all sook me dry despite acres of netting, a pint of oil and a cloud of fragrant smoke...
ETA or something - now doing as @steveo suggested yesterday and looking at maps. A wee April anti-epic actually across Canna and back? And starting from Dalwhinnie it's downhill all the way!
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Right, river-forders, have we actually chosen a date yet? I want to put something in my diary so I don't accidentally agree to do something else that weekend.
(Think the 23rd will clash with Ride to the Sun and it definitely clashes with the Edinburgh Night Ride - one of which I have a half-formed plan to actually do...)
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vote cast
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We all went for the 23rd in your actual poll, @unhurt. The 23rd. Of June. 2018.
To blazes with the other pettifogging events. We shall be the McEpicentre of the cycling world that day.
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I see that noted survivalist and urine drinker Bear Grylls* has now swayed things to the 23rd. The Will of the People etc.
*I'm sure it will be nice to meet him (in disguise).
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a friend told me, he had to google his name to get the spelling.
Other semi-famous people may well also be voting. I've heard.
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noted survivalist and urine drinker
I once drank my own urine by accident. True story. Just a sip. Won't happen again.
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way TMI
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Traumatic Micturation Incident?
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More celebrity attendees have voted I see.
Bit concerned about Scott o.t. A - won't his presence ensure we arrive to find the bothy full of Norwegians who've been there for weeks?
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"Henry Morton Stanley is not available at any of the times of the Doodle poll To Ruigh Aiteachain & back again"
Right. Last chance to vote before I close the poll in a wee bit. I begin to suspect SOMEONE of poll fixing...
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I looked at that doodle, only five of you going, can it be this hard? Yet you have picked the 23rd June when we are all doing something else.
Wait any longer and that boy that went missing in Papua New Guinea without a mobile phone and was pissed off when he was rescued will be going too.
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