A rather poorly attended Tuesday evening ride with only four of us out, for what was a (mostly) dry and reasonably warm winters night. Dean, Donald, myself and another rider I can’t recall rode along the westie, climbing up just to the top of Rocky and Rooty. The route down was littered with a number of fallen branches which made some of the normal lines much more interesting than normal.
Riverside wasn’t in the best shape with some sections having become rather boggy again (more trail maintenance required i think). At this point a maxle stripping caused our party to reduce to three and after saying our goodbyes, we continued on the westie to the Glengoyne distillery and came back along the pipe track which took about an hour.
We had just climbed the hill between Strathblane and Mugdock when the heavens opened and we were totally soaked. At this point we decided that we couldn’t get any wetter and just headed down the normal route to Milngavie: Snaky et al.
‘Riverside wasn’t in the best shape with some sections having become rather boggy again (more trail maintenance required i think). ‘
surely the best maintainance is not to ride sensitive bits of trail when they are sodden in the first place…..
I haven’t been on riverside in 3 months!
Jack – i read your post that you had ridden along it and were remarking that some sections were boggy….
….glad to hear that you were observing from the main Westie trail instead though 🙂
Last night’s Wed ride was just me, Pete and Iain Ferguson – a cracking starry and cold night – we did the short version of Dumgoyne and were back in the hall at 945 for a warming cuppa, courtesy of Graham, Ryszard and Carol, who had been out for an earlier spin. Trails were sodden, but as we stuck to main paths we had a good fun spin.
Maybe time for us to venture to new pastures me thinks …..