Drawing the curtain at 0630, I took a photo and emailed it home. The mountains around Glen Coe had snow down to about 1500feet. I put on all the cycling layers I could. The weather turned out better than expected. No snow or ice, scatterings of rain, mainly dry and not too much headwind.
How about 3 different rainbows before 0900. One in front of a mountain covered in snow, another arising out of the sea infront of an island, and one further one, without looking for them! By0930 we were in Fort William, with a major Trauma Centre for mountain accidents and possessing a helipad. Glen Coe MountainRescue had been located 200 yards from our B&B. we certainly have been in a popular outward-bound area.
Lunch at Fort Augustus at the other end of Loch Ness after we had been beside the Caledonian Canal which joins the Western Seabord with the Eastern end at Muuray Firth by Inverness. So i have done a coast to coast of sorts within one day! After lunch we climbed on foot and bike up to 1000ft on the south side of Loch Ness and then a quiet lane all the way to Inverness, arriving at the huge B&B before 1800 hrs. 82 more miles done. 150 left to do in the next two days. 65 tomorrow, finishing with 85 on Saturday. Good weather please!
I keep getting notification of donations on the two websites. Thank you if you have. I plan to acknowledge any named ones later. My journey home on Sunday will take all day, my bike being couriered to my Edlesborough bike shop for service and reassembly. I have a spare bike to use until I have the Raleigh back in the garage. Sue will pick me up from Stevenage late on Sunday, and I don't have to be back at work till a further two weeks have elapsed.
Glad you are giving yourself a break after your exploits. I hope it is a good day today both weatherwise and ride. Here it is grey and dull and I expect it willl rain soon if it's not doing so already. Sun promised here for Sat and Sun so maybe a nice BH.
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