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I thought Nail Trail would be in condition, wish I'd made it out that far 😥
Dreghorn and Mortonhall were great, but I think its thawing already so they could be decidedly iffy now...
I had a terrible time yesterday, planned to go up howden glen but the snow was so fine, slippy and drifty I just couldn't get traction, as soon as I went on anything off camber the bike just slid out. Gave up half way and went back down through bonaly woods - was good fun but unbelievably slippy, went down most of the steep bit at the bottom on my back. Thawing a bit today, sure it'll be back soon though!
Oh, we were talking about chocolate chute earlier- the bottom of it is a huge block of ice like a little glacier, cunningly hidden under snow, and generally pretty alarming and non-fun. So watch that one. It's ice from the last lot of snow I think.
I spotted that patch of ice on chocolate chute on Saturday morning. It is just visible where the snow has slid off of it a bit, so thankfully I saw it in time to keep the bike upright.
WoL was hard work at 10am on Saturday, since the snow hadn't been compacted by footfall, but did have some foot prints in it. I had to seek out the virgin stuff at the side as it was much easier to keep momentum on the singlespeed. The path was much more rideable 4 hours later on the way back towards town as it had been compacted a bit. I suspect it will be a slushy icefest now though.
Anyone been out today/last night? I'm hoping there is still enough snow around to cover the ice! 😆