Winter Wonderland
Matt and I started riding this morning from Braemar, where it was apparently -11C overnight. High on our mind was the near-frozen river we had to cross - three times - in order to get back to our car at Blair Athol. While the rest of the Highlands seemed to have cold, dank, foggy weather, though, we had blue skies and, when the hills weren’t in the way, glorious sunshine. After leaving Braemar before 10am, we got back to our car just short of 4pm, with 55km under our belts. We were cold, tired, hallucinating a little about food, but most of all we were very, very happy. We’d managed to remind ourselves, in two short days (OK, rather long days) why we put up with the 95% dull and stressful bits of magazine life. We do it for the 5% that gets us doing things like this.
Chris Duncan tests his Endura clothing in some real world weather. He was working too, see?
What a great time! And you can read all about it in the next issue. We were still working, even when thigh deep in a frozen river, someone’s still going to write about it and it might as well be us… 