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Highland Trail 2016: Speechless and euphoric with a sore bottom

I rolled into Tyndrum on Thursday morning at 06:35 after riding through the night to finish under five days where I eagerly joined the other Highland Trail 2016 finishers for hours of storytelling over Scottish breakfasts, cakes, coffees at the Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum. A strong bond had developed between the riders whilst riding and it was cemented by our post mortem huddle, a sense of mutual …

Basque Bikepacking… Una Vuelta de Vasco

We both had two weeks holiday remaining and enough air miles to get to Bilbao and back. That seemed liked enough of a plan to get started.  I thought up a route and fiddled with our bikes whilst Jenny worked her magic on our clothing to climate calibration (CCC) and optimised the pack list for bikepacking. The flight date approached faster …