One of Nigel’s journey runs and a very nice route along the Carron Valley reservoir and up Meikle Bin. Incredibly green moss by the forest roads and bits of crashed airplane on the hill. Who knew there was a thriving husky racing scene? Some 28 teams racing a 4.8 mile circuit in races over the course of the day. And they go a fair speed.
The met office map full of sunny suns proved less than true and it started to snow as we hunkered down by one of the engines. Willie had bought along a 12 person bivvie bag so we enveloped ourselves in that for lunch. We considered completing the run as a large orange centipede we were so cold. My hands went completely numb. But as we set off again the sun came out and we thawed. Read a fuller account in the journal! Oh and the pointy hill we couldn’t identify was Ben Lomond!
Digby