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I'd love to say that's intentional for extra grip.. that explains why I'm going so slow obviously.
@M_V rationalised it as I was the only one there and waited till late in the evening to actually go inside - avoided licking anything inside and kept to one room. Have since signed up for MBA membership to ease my guilty conscious.
Next up hopefully the Hebridean Way in a few weeks with the gf.
Pmccee
Day3. Bothy to Montrose.
https://strava.app.link/KyvcVzo33gb
Think this is part of Cairngorms loop. Bit of pushing and swearing at some points to get over the bits i couldn't ride. A MTB would have been welcome here, fork mounts started to loosen a little which was entertaining. Made it over the bridge of doom and through onto the double track all the way to Braemar. Changed the route to follow the Dee which has a great gravel path alongside it.
Took in Cairn o Mount which I crawled up as was absolutely shagged. I kept telling myself it'll eventually pass and it'll get better and it did! Descending to the coast was great and was really looking forward to a nice wee quaint seaside town....Montrose is a dump but grabbed a pizza to complete the holy trinity of touring fast food. 16inches folds down nicely.
Camped right on the coast by the old lime kilns at Boddin. Couldn't have got a better spot.
10/10 mini tour, no midge bites and even caught a bit of sun. Gave up taking pictures eventually as no sense of scale or grandeur with my crap phone/abilties.