First plan: An epic backcountry expedition to a secret location, sleeping in a mountain bothy to access a track 4 miles from the nearest public road. We ended up postponing so that ATBA Roger could make it, and we could go to the rescheduled ATBA round at Out to Grass, our favourite english centre.
Second plan: ATBA-UK Round 2 got thoroughly cancelled by the monsoon about half an hour before we were leaving...
So Plan 3 (C) was put into effect. A bloody early start got us to Glenmore as the base of the Ski Road to Cairngorm Ski Centre, just in time to get kit together and catch the hourly bus up the the Daylodge. Ideally we'd hop off the bus and onto the funicular to the top, but environmental restrictions wont allow access to the hill from the top station.
We walked.
and walked.
I took a break.
then we walked more.
then Allan waited for me.
and we walked more.
(a quick note here- noSnos are pretty heavy, but a bungee cord from the front truck to the waistband of yer breeks makes life bearable.)
At the top of the train we went into the cafe (yup, you can go in- ring the bell and sign in to prove that you hiked it, otherwise you're a prisoner)
After explaining for about the 50th time what a mountainboard is and what we do, we were free to ride. I'm not going to try to explain how good the run was, so here's the video:
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