Gagging for some 'stress action, so anyone been up in the last 48 hours or so care to comment?
Wee bit outside your window but it was snow covered on Sunday.
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V mild in teh Burgh today, may have melted?
Somebody I know rode there the other night including some of the red above the freeride and said it was great fun. Still some soft snow in places but much less.
cynic-al - Peebles has a different climate to the Burgh, it was baltic this morning, noticeably warmer up the road. I went running up behind the hydro on sunday and was surprised at the depth of snow remaining.
And the huge piles of snow the cooncil has dumped along the road from my house show no sign of melting, but it is entertaining watching the local kids ride quad bikes over them.
5 of us gave GT a miss on Sunday and went round Inners.
Loads of snow everywhere. Lots of hike a bike.
We met 3 lads who got as far as the shortcut and they gave up. We, being hardy souls ( i.e. daft) went up and across the shortcut. No one had been up the summit trail at all.
The shortcut and the top of Enduro had a minimum of 1ft of snow and 2 sets of footprints on it ! We all fell over a lot.
The bottom end of it was ok, sort of. You could ride it all at least.
Plora had yet more white stuff. No one had been down it at all. The last third was fine.
And finally, after more hiking, Cadon was snow free, wet and a blast.
Needless to say, if it stays this mild it will ride a lot better, if it freezes it will be slippy as hell.
I was up Innerleithen late this afternoon, only got as high as the quarry on the DH courses as the light was going a bit. No snow atall on the XC climb until it joins the SUW, which is about 380m, the same as the top of the GT freeride area. I'd imagine the snowline would be higher at GT as it's south facing?
In the tree shaded northfacing slope at the inners quarry there was still about four inches of wet snow on the ground, next to no snow on trails under the trees. Looking up the SUW it looked to be about 40-50% snow in the open higher up.
We rode Inners on Sunday too. Rode pretty much all the way to the short cut on Minch Moor. Short cut fine, the other side deep snow but a larf going back down. But mostly all rideable of what we did.
Did same as Coogan yesterday and conditions the same but chose the downhill trails for the return. Inners is faring much better than GT. (Was there on Sunday)