Jo and I have come north for a few days of post-Christmas mountain biking at Glentress, 7Stanes, Scotland and got rather more snow than we were bargaining for.
We've both ridden in snow before, and had found that so long as we stayed to well ridden paths most of the trails were generally still ridable. Not in this much snow :)
Much of the 2.5 feet of snow on the trail had thawed into slush (on the first day) and mostly refrozen (by the second day) turning the whole trail into a corrugated slip-n-slide that sometimes held your weight and sometimes sent you sliding through to the slush beneath.
Needless to say we've not put quite as many miles away as we'd hoped; we've moved slower dragging a bike through snow than skimming over trail-centre hard-pack.
Still, it's been a stack of fun for us all, playing in the thick snow, especially as it was only the third time on a mountain bike for Joanne, James' wife who both met us for the day on Monday.
Vid's coming once we get home.
Oh, & yesterday it was -12 deg, & our car battery has gone flat.
-- matthew
Location:Peebles, Scotland, United Kingdom
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