Yesterday I was hoping to get on some of the ice over on Hell's Lum or some mixed action in the norries, which would be my first time in there this winter and I was feeling bad for neglecting them! I met up with Bruce, Pauline and Fraser and we headed northwards. Unfortunately it started raining around Dalwhinnie and didn't stop even when we were at the plateau of Lochain. It was very misty and claggy and generally miserable but it was still nice to be outside and getting a bit of light exercise. We basically walked through the rain into somewhere near Lochain, fluffed about for a good while trying to find out where exactly we were, realised the buttresses were not only totally black but heavily running with water, and finally being happy enough having climbed from the lochain on steep snow slopes we decided we weren't that fussed to do another hundred metres or so of the stuff just to summit, and so we headd back to the car and homewards.
TodayI had a great day riding some of the more downhill-esque tracks at Innerleithen on the wee bikes with Neil and Sean. Sean has swapped over from flats to SPD's and is mostly getting to grips with them, except when he has a play on Neil's carbon fibre lightning fast steed which swiftly bucked him off and jabbed him in the sternum with the bar ends. Not fun. He soldiered on and we had an awesome day playing in the mud. I need to put in a big order to Chain Reaction Cycles which will be squirmishly bank breaking, but that's what happens when you enthusiasm outweighs ability and you end up on the floor!
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