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GBDivide South West part 2

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GBDivide South West part 1

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One night wonder - Isle of Mull

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HT550 northern loops part 4

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HT550 northern loops part 3

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Christmas in southern Spain.

Christmas in Spain, Happy new year and a channel update.
We were lucky enough to get to spend Christmas and New Year with our friends down in southern Spain in a town called Conil de la Frontera. Located between Cadiz and Gibraltar on the Atlantic coast it’s still a traditional Spanish town mainly used by tourists from other Spanish cities like Madrid and Seville. There’s also other Europeans including Dutch, Germans and Swiss.
We usually visit our friends Bob and Karen at least once a year and it’s always fun to hang out with them.
This year I hired a mountain bike and managed to get out riding regularly. It’s so nice to get some winter sun without the rain and mud back in the UK.
I didn’t record every ride but here is a video from a ride down to Trafalgar lighthouse and a ride along the beach to El Palmar. There’s also a little bit of a channel update on what’s coming up this year.
And finally, happy new year and thanks to everyone who has taken the time to watch my videos and support my channel.
Hope you enjoy this video. 😁

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One night wonder - Lake District

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Another quick, one night trip out on the bike. This time in the Lake District. I was on the way to Scotland with Emma and stopped for a couple of days in the Lakes. Weather was beautiful so I decided to pop out for a one night camp on Clough Head as it was fairly close to our campsite at Troutbeck. I’d ridden the old coach road before with Matt so knew some of the route. Turning off the track t...

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GBDivide South West part 2

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GB Divide part two Leaving my campsite at Cow Castle I left Exmoor with three days left to ride to get me home. Exmoor had been great, fantastic weather and nice, varied riding. I didn’t realise it at the time but it was to be the last off road riding for many miles! My aim was to head for a campsite outside Holsworthy. It was all road riding today, and the first big town of the day also had th...

21:44

GBDivide South West part 1

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GB Divide South west section part 1 Back in June Matt and I set off to ride the GB Divide from north to south. Matt had been suffering with a bad back for a few days and by the time we got to loch Ossian he was in a lot of pain. We made the sad decision to abandon the route and get Matt back home. Got the train from Corrour station back to Glasgow, got a hotel and then hired a car the next day....

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One night wonder - Isle of Mull

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One night wonder - Isle of Mull I realised that I do mostly multi week trips and hardly ever do quick overnight camp with the bike. So, this is different to the videos I normally make, shorter and hopefully gives a sense of the area and fun to be had on a one night camp. I’ll be doing more videos like this for my overnight camps in the future. I was away with Emma for a couple of weeks in the L...

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HT550 northern loops part 4

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After a great nights sleep the day dawned sunny and warm in Poolewe. We got packed away and picked up our charged battery packs. Had 2 bacon rolls at the same food van, they were just what we wanted. Stopped at the local Mace store and got some snacks for later at camp. And a couple of beers. The off road section(Tollie path) we were to ride this morning looked innocuous enough on the map and w...

28:16

HT550 northern loops part 3

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HT550 northern loops part 3 Apologies for the time it’s taken to get this video out, after this trip I had a few weeks and then set off to ride the GBDivide route with Matt. After returning from that trip I had a lot of work and personal stuff to concentrate on and didn’t have a lot of time to edit videos! We had decided to get an early start from Suileag bothy and after a quick breakfast I was...

26:16

HT550 northern loops part 2

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HT550 northern two loops. Part 2, Glen Golly to Suileag bothy. We woke up to a very different Glen Golly. Sunshine and a nice breeze! I’d warned up overnight but our tents and clothes were still wet from the night before. We tried to dry things out the best we could but eventually had to pack up and head off. The area around the loch where we’d been aiming for turned out to be waterlogged so pr...

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HT550 northern loops part 1

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HT550 northern loops Here’s the first part of our recent adventure on the HT550. We decided to ride the top two northern loops, partly as we had two weeks and wanted to go to Torridon too, but also because I’d ridden most of the southern loop before and North is better right?? 😂 In our normal style we weren’t trying to do it fast, just enjoying the landscapes we were moving through, stopping to...

A break from riding the HT550 to see the sunrise from the summit of Suilven.

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A break from riding the HT550 to see the sunrise from the summit of Suilven.

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HT550 day seven. What an epic day! We decided to change plans and stay at the Suileag bothy and climb Suilven and arrive on the summit for sunrise. That meant an early start, 2am which is the middle of the night!! Got some good sleep in the bothy and didn’t want to get out of my sleeping bag. Had a coffee and set off to catch up to Richard who was up the trail taking photos. I was lucky enough ...

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A night on Eigg

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A night on Eigg This is the last of our 2023 bikepacking adventures. I’d wanted to get over to the Isle of Eigg for a while and we had the opportunity to get a quick overnight stay in while we were waiting to head to Rum. We had to use a private ferry service from Arisaig to get the timing right and arrived early enough at the ferry to get a breakfast before we left. After loading the bikes ont...

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Cairngorms loop final day

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Day five, Edendon Water to Aviemore After a comfortable night camping at Edendon Water we headed off on the final day of our trip. It was another day of mixed weather conditions and we were expecting to get wet again at some point! After passing Sronphadruig Lodge we started climbing up to Loch an Duin. We came across the last DofE group of the trip here, we’d seen quite a few groups over the f...

13:42

Cairngorms loop part four

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Day four, Bob Scott Memorial Hut to Edendon water. After the tough and frustrating afternoon on day three we had a comfortable and very welcome night in the Bob Scott memorial hut. We were lucky to have the bothy to ourselves again, in fact we hadn’t shared a bothy all trip! We set off the following morning with a fairly bad weather forecast, we were going to get wet sooner or later today. Afte...

15:33

Cairngorms loop part three

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Day three, Glen Feshie bothy to Bob Scott Memorial Hut. Our stay at Glen Feshie bothy was amazing. It’s such a unique bothy and we had the added bonus of having the place to ourselves. After clearing up we left a couple of chocolate bars for the bothy and set off on the trail again. The weather was good as we rode down Glen Feshie. There is a river crossing close to Glenfeshie lodge and Matt wa...

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Cairngorms loop part two

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Day two, Inchrory to Glen Feshie bothy. Day two of our Cairngorms trip started dry but extremely windy. We would have a headwind all the way to Braemar. We had to get up and over one of the high points of the route too and we were trying to avoid being up high when the forecasted thunder and lightning storms came in later in the day. The trails were generally good double track although we did h...