I’m heading up (not on the entries list though for some reason). Did the last one, it was mint- but yep, a fairly hard weekend.
No guarantee it’ll be exactly the same but I gather it’ll be similiar at least. The technical difficulty was sort of hard to describe- it’s all footpaths, which up there means it’s a lot like riding down a streambed- big loose rocks, sometimes hard to keep momentum, quite a few bits where there isn’t exactly a “line” so you’re just making it up as you go along. Very cool but quite different to most riding I do.
The climb was long and fairly draggy, but not too bad- almost all landrover track. Was glad for the granny ring.
Conditions should be different- I got caught in a wee bit of a snow storm in practice last year, so my race day was slightly afflicted by not being able to feel my toes properly 🙂
All in all I loved it- not an easy weekend but I reckon doable for most folks. If you’ve done anything like this- UKGE, inners enduros, or even normal technical highlands riding- it’ll be right.