Biking Round Ski Areas.

I had some time off and took 2 days to ride past all the ski areas in Scotland. I didn't set out to do that it just happened. I left Perth and headed up to Aberfeldy to met Ali. We headedout toward Glencoe. Ali joined me for about an hour and then had to head back. I carried on and headed down towards Oban before heading up Glen Orchy.

Then it was up to Rannoch Moore and down into Glencoe. The picture above shows the new section of road by the meeting of the 3 waters. It was an awesome day and a great way to travel through Glenoce.
It was up to Fort William and past my second ski area for the day. Fort Bill was busy with the Mountain Bike world cup on at the weekend there were alot of people around.
From Fort Bill I headed to Spean Bridge and along the side of Loch Laggen where the photo above is taken.

It was time to start to look for somewhere to stay. The bottom of the River Pattack has a great wee spot. It is a Community Woodland Campsite that doesn't cost anything to stay at. The problem of course was the Midges.
In the morning it was up and off to escape the midges. I headed into Newtonmore and fueled up. Then it was up Cairngorm for breakfast. Above shot is taken on the road up to the mountain carpark.
From Cairngorm it was off to Nethy Bridge and then up the road towards The Lecht. A quick stop there and the off towards Braemar and finally passing Glenshee. Above is on the road from Braemar to Glenshee. It was an excellent 2 days and the bike performed really well. I passed it's 600 mile point at Glenshee and so it was in for it's first service the next day. Now the engine is run in I can now see what 7000rpm is all about......

Canyoning

I had a day out last week with Dave from Source Paddlesport We headed up to Acharn on the south side of Loch Tay and went Canyoning on Acharn Falls. It was a great sunny day and it was great to get into the canyon and do some rope work again.

Looking down 35m of Waterfall. I'm down there somewhere.

It is a stunning series of Falls with the biggest being 35m We realised it was this height when we I didn't quite get to the bottom on a doubled 50m rope. Ah the last 10m was easy climb down anyway......