Definitely not The Lecht
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder..
Besides which that blonde in front could crack walnuts with those thighs ..very scary indeed
I've got walnuts Neil and will be in all afternoonBeauty is in the eye of the beholder..
Besides which that blonde in front could crack walnuts with those thighs ..very scary indeed
Troo dat...
We used to, in dim and distant past, compete in canoe slalom. There was always a slalom on the May Day holiday weekend. We'd go to that for the weekend, go home on the Sunday afternoon , unload the canoes and stuff then leaving our camping gear in car load it up with our skiing gear. Head up to Cairngorms to camp at Glenmore for the Monday and Tuesday and get some skiing in on generally sunny days. It was the runs higher up back then that still had snow, it did look Alpine, there were people skiing in shorts and T-shirts sometimes. Was lucky one year where they opened some ski-tows high up at The Ptarmigan on the 6th of June FFS. No happen noo.
Did ski in a T-shirt once in the Austrian Alps at Hintertux on the glacier near Mayrhofen in the summer. Skied there couple of years for a week. Didn't do the T-shirt thing again after I fell on hard, icy snow at edge of piste and scraped a large, sair as feck graze on arm. Just thinking of those poor bikini girls near nekkid gives me the fear of consequences.
Haha yes I hivna skied in uk for a very long time. Had a sneaky week in France in February be my last one get feart as you get older. Use to love the river paddling till I broke ankle on the Dee. Have a pacraft thats brilliant middle findhorn or Avon but not been out this winter. Sea kayak but fair weather nowadays. Slalom your a real paddler. Grandtully remember that well.Troo dat...
We used to, in dim and distant past, compete in canoe slalom. There was always a slalom on the May Day holiday weekend. We'd go to that for the weekend, go home on the Sunday afternoon , unload the canoes and stuff then leaving our camping gear in car load it up with our skiing gear. Head up to Cairngorms to camp at Glenmore for the Monday and Tuesday and get some skiing in on generally sunny days. It was the runs higher up back then that still had snow, it did look Alpine, there were people skiing in shorts and T-shirts sometimes. Was lucky one year where they opened some ski-tows high up at The Ptarmigan on the 6th of June FFS. No happen noo.
Did ski in a T-shirt once in the Austrian Alps at Hintertux on the glacier near Mayrhofen in the summer. Skied there couple of years for a week. Didn't do the T-shirt thing again after I fell on hard, icy snow at edge of piste and scraped a large, sair as feck graze on arm. Just thinking of those poor bikini girls near nekkid gives me the fear of consequences.
Good idea! I will try that on my next bike.
I'm no expert, but that looks a bit photo-shopped to me!
Getting bit by a rattlesnake would ruin my whole day.
Spoil sport
@Just gan If you want to see some photo shopping (in fact more like AI photo shopping), then test your critical facilities with this pic below. I know it will be hard, but I need you to look closely.
I think it must be artificially interfered with. Nobody could be that perfect.
If she was , she'd be in the news, on the TV, in the movies etc, etc. Anyone seen her? Nope, didn't think so.
I think it must be artificially interfered with. Nobody could be that perfect.
If she was , she'd be in the news, on the TV, in the movies etc, etc. Anyone seen her? Nope, didn't think so.
My mate looking for where the trail starts again after crossing the road. Sunday.
And now looking for the trail at the other side of the road. The rut he is about to cross was about 18" deep and full of water. I unblocked a small dam of sticks, bark and other debris and the water slowly drained away.
Here is another one, blocking the entrance to a lovely bit of riding. That was last year.
During clearance, each tree is gripped by some very clever jaws and then sawn through at the base, the machine then rotates the tree through 90 degree and propels the trunk through the jaws by eight feet at a time (it might be 2.5m). As the trunk goes through the jaws they strip off all the side branches and any other bits sticking out. Then it cuts through the trunk leaving a log of the correct length to be loaded on a truck, widthways on. All the side branches and other stuff stripped off is known as "brash" and is left in place for nature to do its work. The brash is trampled into the ground by various large and heavy machines, some tracked, some with tyres that look like they came off the back of a tractor.
Here is brash. I KNOW there is a trail under there, but I could not find any of it. Another off-piste trail gone. This stuff was on a very wide area, hundreds of yards in all directions. This was not on Forest England land, but adjacent to it.
Let me be clear, Forest England has no responsibility at all to maintain, or even avoid, any of the off-piste trails. They do not have any legal requirement at all, nor the funds to do so even if they wanted to (and the guy in charge is a keen mtb rider). I accept that; I just don't like the consequences.
My mate and I like to do a few guided rides per year at our local trail. We focus on the off-piste and the surroundings of the Forest England area. After all, mtb riders could come any time they like and do the regular maintained and waymarked trails. This year, with the motor bike damage and the impact of the clearance we are not sure that we can create a decent length trail of sufficient interest. There have been major clearances before that seemed irrecoverable, but other trails opened up and also the damage died down with time. But the motor bike damage looks the worst. No sooner do we open up a new trail than they find it and within a week or so it's gone. They leave pedal trapping deep ruts, and straighten out curves. Nice little features are hammered into oblivion. They destroy descents by climbing up them with engines revving, leaving deep ruts and holes. They strip off the leaf mould, the pine needles and the sand down to whatever bare rock was below, or until the bike bottoms out on the soil. What looks like tons of soil is ripped out and deposited at the bottom of the climb. Climbing those steep and tall descents looks terrifying to me, so I can admire the skill involved in what they do, I just don't like the results.
Edit: By the way, the motorbikers are all riding without permission and that is why the Police are forever chasing them. They are not looking for people on mtbs or e-bikes. I know because I have spoken to quite a few of them.
And now looking for the trail at the other side of the road. The rut he is about to cross was about 18" deep and full of water. I unblocked a small dam of sticks, bark and other debris and the water slowly drained away.
Here is another one, blocking the entrance to a lovely bit of riding. That was last year.
During clearance, each tree is gripped by some very clever jaws and then sawn through at the base, the machine then rotates the tree through 90 degree and propels the trunk through the jaws by eight feet at a time (it might be 2.5m). As the trunk goes through the jaws they strip off all the side branches and any other bits sticking out. Then it cuts through the trunk leaving a log of the correct length to be loaded on a truck, widthways on. All the side branches and other stuff stripped off is known as "brash" and is left in place for nature to do its work. The brash is trampled into the ground by various large and heavy machines, some tracked, some with tyres that look like they came off the back of a tractor.
Here is brash. I KNOW there is a trail under there, but I could not find any of it. Another off-piste trail gone. This stuff was on a very wide area, hundreds of yards in all directions. This was not on Forest England land, but adjacent to it.
Let me be clear, Forest England has no responsibility at all to maintain, or even avoid, any of the off-piste trails. They do not have any legal requirement at all, nor the funds to do so even if they wanted to (and the guy in charge is a keen mtb rider). I accept that; I just don't like the consequences.
My mate and I like to do a few guided rides per year at our local trail. We focus on the off-piste and the surroundings of the Forest England area. After all, mtb riders could come any time they like and do the regular maintained and waymarked trails. This year, with the motor bike damage and the impact of the clearance we are not sure that we can create a decent length trail of sufficient interest. There have been major clearances before that seemed irrecoverable, but other trails opened up and also the damage died down with time. But the motor bike damage looks the worst. No sooner do we open up a new trail than they find it and within a week or so it's gone. They leave pedal trapping deep ruts, and straighten out curves. Nice little features are hammered into oblivion. They destroy descents by climbing up them with engines revving, leaving deep ruts and holes. They strip off the leaf mould, the pine needles and the sand down to whatever bare rock was below, or until the bike bottoms out on the soil. What looks like tons of soil is ripped out and deposited at the bottom of the climb. Climbing those steep and tall descents looks terrifying to me, so I can admire the skill involved in what they do, I just don't like the results.
Edit: By the way, the motorbikers are all riding without permission and that is why the Police are forever chasing them. They are not looking for people on mtbs or e-bikes. I know because I have spoken to quite a few of them.
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Woke up next to her after a night on the Toon in The Premier Inn , Quayside this morning ..dont remember too much about it other than shes right into older blokes
Just your average Geordie lass ..nowt spesh
P.s ..Dont tell the missus as she thinks I was on an all night night ride ..strictly speaking I was
I've snowboarded many times in Scotland in a t-shirt when the snow lasted into the spring back in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Never braved shorts though... not because of the cold, they'd just look shit with snowboard boots
We went to Tignes tow lads had the kilts went down wellI've snowboarded many times in Scotland in a t-shirt when the snow lasted into the spring back in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Never braved shorts though... not because of the cold, they'd just look shit with snowboard boots
I stopped skiing at 40 to protect a dodgy knee to keep playing rugby, chucked rugby at 62, 11 year ago, so I could keep riding my MTB. My first paddles in my teens were with a kayak my dad and I built from plans in a book. Made of WP plywood cut to shape then stitched together with copper wire then glued with glassfibre and resin. All my paddles then were on the sea as we lived in Leven in East Fife. I liked all paddling, especially white water rivers, slalom was just what you did back then as well. One of my paddling mates back then at 20 became my Munro-bagging mate then my rock and ice-climbing mate.
billwarwick
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I don’t believe a word of it. They don’t let your type into a Premier Inn for a start, and she’s from Sunderland anyway.Woke up next to her after a night on the Toon in The Premier Inn , Quayside this morning ..dont remember too much about it other than shes right into older blokes
Just your average Geordie lass ..nowt spesh
P.s ..Dont tell the missus as she thinks I was on an all night night ride ..strictly speaking I was
Basically that is what has happened to our local forest Blairadam near Kelty in Fife. Same process of hunt the trail beyond the mega ruts. Clear-felling has happened in recent years with the majority of trails sort of recovered by a lot of hard work clearing the brash by the guys that are invested in the trails. In last few months the clear-felling has moved to the steeper terrain where the best of the trails were. Looking like these will disappear unfortunately. The recovered trails seem weird/different because they are now out in open and the shape of them through the trees is not there.My mate looking for where the trail starts again after crossing the road. Sunday.
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And now looking for the trail at the other side of the road. The rut he is about to cross was about 18" deep and full of water. I unblocked a small dam of sticks, bark and other debris and the water slowly drained away.View attachment 180165
Here is another one, blocking the entrance to a lovely bit of riding. That was last year.
View attachment 180167
During clearance, each tree is gripped by some very clever jaws and then sawn through at the base, the machine then rotates the tree through 90 degree and propels the trunk through the jaws by eight feet at a time (it might be 2.5m). As the trunk goes through the jaws they strip off all the side branches and any other bits sticking out. Then it cuts through the trunk leaving a log of the correct length to be loaded on a truck, widthways on. All the side branches and other stuff stripped off is known as "brash" and is left in place for nature to do its work. The brash is trampled into the ground by various large and heavy machines, some tracked, some with tyres that look like they came off the back of a tractor.
Here is brash. I KNOW there is a trail under there, but I could not find any of it. Another off-piste trail gone. This stuff was on a very wide area, hundreds of yards in all directions. This was not on Forest England land, but adjacent to it.
View attachment 180168
Let me be clear, Forest England has no responsibility at all to maintain, or even avoid, any of the off-piste trails. They do not have any legal requirement at all, nor the funds to do so even if they wanted to (and the guy in charge is a keen mtb rider). I accept that; I just don't like the consequences.
My mate and I like to do a few guided rides per year at our local trail. We focus on the off-piste and the surroundings of the Forest England area. After all, mtb riders could come any time they like and do the regular maintained and waymarked trails. This year, with the motor bike damage and the impact of the clearance we are not sure that we can create a decent length trail of sufficient interest. There have been major clearances before that seemed irrecoverable, but other trails opened up and also the damage died down with time. But the motor bike damage looks the worst. No sooner do we open up a new trail than they find it and within a week or so it's gone. They leave pedal trapping deep ruts, and straighten out curves. Nice little features are hammered into oblivion. They destroy descents by climbing up them with engines revving, leaving deep ruts and holes. They strip off the leaf mould, the pine needles and the sand down to whatever bare rock was below, or until the bike bottoms out on the soil. What looks like tons of soil is ripped out and deposited at the bottom of the climb. Climbing those steep and tall descents looks terrifying to me, so I can admire the skill involved in what they do, I just don't like the results.
Edit: By the way, the motorbikers are all riding without permission and that is why the Police are forever chasing them. They are not looking for people on mtbs or e-bikes. I know because I have spoken to quite a few of them.
That's 30 odd years since I first rode in there, me and mates made a few of the easier trails, been in there with chainsaws clearing storm damage with other mates but humping chainsaws are a younger man's game for me now.
Michelle Brazendale perchance?
No, more like The Lech!
Gila Man
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I dig your drinking hat!
That's about as magnificent as drinking hats get! Full tribal chief/peacock style!
This Tuesday night ride with the Mexican crew included more ceviche afterwards, but tonight I was schooled on how I really want to eat this deliciousness. The setup is to put the ceviche on a crispy tortilla with mayonnaise. The contrast between the mayonnaise and hot sauce is just amazing; and the avocado, tomato, and seafood brings a light and cool, yet savory experience. Add an ice cold Mexican beer and it hit the spot after a ride.
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Bit of everything same as me. The bagging finished now thankfully, I occasionally do a hill but takes days to recover. Caving at skye this weekend haha.
I have no idea. Are you saying that she is a real person, or that the photographer/creator is called Michelle B?
In her facebook headline page (all I could see, I'm not on FacePuke) she has blond hair, is about half a dozen shades paler on the Dulux shade card and has smaller breasts. So a real person, but the picture has been altered. I was half right, half wrong.
How did you discover she was a real person?
Initially used Google Image search using her picture to identify if she existed, which it seemed she does.In her facebook headline page (all I could see, I'm not on FacePuke) she has blond hair, is about half a dozen shades paler on the Dulux shade card and has smaller breasts. So a real person, but the picture has been altered. I was half right, half wrong.
How did you discover she was a real person?
Then used Google to search for "Michelle Brazendale" and many references came up.
Clicked on the Facebook link. Not complicated. (I don't use Facebook btw).
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