Yes, sad to say the weather is looking rather damp for Sunday. However, one thing I have learned at Pines is that when you are in the woods, the rain never seems quite so bad. I will be in front most of the time (I try not to be, but it is the nature of guiding) and the impact of that is that it's me that knocks all the rain drops off the bushes. So I tend to be the wettest one there, and the one that collects the spiders as well! It's a hard life being a guide.
Yes, sad to say the weather is looking rather damp for Sunday. However, one thing I have learned at Pines is that when you are in the woods, the rain never seems quite so bad. I will be in front most of the time (I try not to be, but it is the nature of guiding) and the impact of that is that it's me that knocks all the rain drops off the bushes. So I tend to be the wettest one there, and the one that collects the spiders as well! It's a hard life being a guide.
Oh yes!SPIDERS! You didn't say there would be spiders.
It's a Kenevo and he commutes to work every day through the woods, so he'll have it at Pines tomorrow. All I have to do is to go pick it up on Sunday morning! He offered to bring in his charger and plug it in on arrival to give me max charge.
Hopefully he'll be so distracted he'll forget about the waxing ..
? I like your way of thinking. If this had not of been such short notice I would of without hesitationSo she gave you a heads up and you still didn't take he opportunity to continue your escape !
In this shot @myapes is at the bottom having already fallen all the way down. I tried and failed twice today at this one (I've done it before honest - I blame the strange bike!)
It was awesome, but we were very lucky with the weather.
You are closer than you know! The route we did was longer and more complex than I'd done before. So I wrote it all down beforehand. Then kept changing it! I wrapped my final route in plastic to foil the forecast rain, then promptly left it behind! The route we did was one I have never done 100% before. I'd done all the bits but never in that sequence, so I just had to go off memory. I checked when I got home and I'd nailed it. (Not that anyone else would know one way or the other!)You know he was lost don't you !
That was his first run down from top to bottom. When we first tried it initially, it was very, very dry that day and the trail surface just skidded away under your tyres. Neither of us fancied ending up in the gorse, so we both pushed down the first 20'. The conditions today were damp and it stabilised the trail to an extent. At the very top where we were all standing, it was tricky just keeping your footing.Looks like a great ride Steve. Hope @myapes is ok, it looks a bit like he was trying some of my techniques !
Can't have been that bad if Damo rode it...
Well, the rain held off mostly. we got a bit at the beginning and a few showers, but nothing of any concern at all. The trails were mostly just grippy. We got nine riders in total and it was a good crowd, we all sparked off each other. There's a team photo here, with Peaky Rider behind the camera (he appears later)
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That's me in my guide's orange top, so you can see me from a distance amongst the trees.
Here is a series of shots of the biggest descent (I'll split them up over several posts)
This one shows just how high up we were ("hey we're above the trees" said one rider).
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Are we really going down there?
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Peaky Rider has the cling fit shorts (and very nice he looked too). His sartorial elegance was an example to us all!
