As last years Saturday 'ride out' seemed to go down well with everyone we're going to do the same again.
Essentially it's a Nav rally that you can do on your own or in a group of other riders. You'll get a waypoint download to your Garmin device on Saturday morning and a sheet of questions. Some questions you'll be able to answer from the seat of the bike but others you'll have to dismount & walk in. There'll be 'hidden' clues - it's a navigation event, not a quiz, and the questions are just to prove you were actually there
Depending on the difficulty of access and/or distance from base each location will have a points value. It's up to you to figure out a route that will maximize your points total. You'll have from 10.00 until 17.00 to get as many done as you can but it's not a race
We'll be covering some of the areas from last year but with different locations / questions. In addition we're working on extending it to a whole new area so youse don't get bored.
To that end Geraldine & I were out & about on Saturday. Some pics :
Enroute to meeting
After a bit of breakfast in Baltinglass we visited the Abbey :
A wee dolmen beside the road
Someone didn't make the turn over the bridge
A few interesting roads for Ash
Starting to get a bit 'overcast' in the hills
Not the Mammy
A short stop in Aughrim
Some more fun
Definitely not getting any sunnier
Wadda ya reckon Ash
And then we finished our day in Courtown before heading home to watch the match
Too cold for ice creams though
All in all a good day out, was quite mild & when the only real shower arrived we stopped for lunch (although Garaldine got rained on on the ride home)
Essentially it's a Nav rally that you can do on your own or in a group of other riders. You'll get a waypoint download to your Garmin device on Saturday morning and a sheet of questions. Some questions you'll be able to answer from the seat of the bike but others you'll have to dismount & walk in. There'll be 'hidden' clues - it's a navigation event, not a quiz, and the questions are just to prove you were actually there
Depending on the difficulty of access and/or distance from base each location will have a points value. It's up to you to figure out a route that will maximize your points total. You'll have from 10.00 until 17.00 to get as many done as you can but it's not a race
We'll be covering some of the areas from last year but with different locations / questions. In addition we're working on extending it to a whole new area so youse don't get bored.
To that end Geraldine & I were out & about on Saturday. Some pics :
Enroute to meeting
After a bit of breakfast in Baltinglass we visited the Abbey :
A wee dolmen beside the road
Someone didn't make the turn over the bridge
A few interesting roads for Ash
Starting to get a bit 'overcast' in the hills
Not the Mammy
A short stop in Aughrim
Some more fun
Definitely not getting any sunnier
Wadda ya reckon Ash
And then we finished our day in Courtown before heading home to watch the match
Too cold for ice creams though
All in all a good day out, was quite mild & when the only real shower arrived we stopped for lunch (although Garaldine got rained on on the ride home)