Wed 2nd July, Tomintoul 6:30

Meet at Queens View car park

Wed 25th June, Old Bridge Inn, Aviemore 6:30

Planning on going for a curry afterwards, about 9:00

Wed 18th June - Kincraig 6.30

Probably best to park at the village hall rather than block up all of the Suie car park

Next ride wed 11 June Uath an Lochans for a 6:30ish start.

Route plan was a nice ride out followed by a swim across the feshie and a bonus loop of the
 Burma road. I would love to be there but will be mostly eating burgers and watching carrbridge primary take on the south end of the valley at Shinty. See you next week.

Next ride Wed 4 June Grantown meet at the car park opposite the petrol station for a 6:30 ish start

Fair haired lad pass

Having done most of the Trail of the seven lochs last year in sections, I still had to do the bit from the pass back north. I did the pass before from Inverfarigaig and the corkscrew. So I went up on Saturday and parked the car at the Scaniport road end and set off up the T7L from Cullaird to the Essich road. Then along the very quiet tarmac roads to the start of the trail. This time I had a camera and got some pics. It is easy to find the start as it's waymarked nd the climb up is not hard. The trail seems very little used though it was used for the Man v horse recently. Evidence of that along the trail. I saw only vague signs of the passage of bikes, not recent at all. But when you get up there you wonder why not, views are amazing. The descent is absolutely superb! This is the best of highland mountain biking. Tricky for the first 200 yards then lovely flowing hard pack through open woodland on grassy dry track. Eventually you come out on to Forest road and contour back through Erchite Farm on to tarmac again. I did about 25 miles and climbed to 1000 feet at the top of the pass.