Scotland looking good - a favourite loop - sorry on 4 wheels

[Boxerboy55]

Round the 4 ski slopes yesterday. Up past Perth, Blairgowrie, Glenshee, Braemar, Crathie, Cockbridge, Lecht, Tomintoul, Aviemore, Laggan Dam, Fort Bill, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Callendar, home again. Sub-zero at times.

I love this loop on a bike. Sometimes clockwise. Sometimes anti-clockwise. Around 340 miles. Can't wait for things to warm up a bit.
Somehow the Tom Tom thought the road was closed and kept trying to turn me round. Though there were a couple of Road Closed signs, the snow gates were open and all roads were clear.



Monday was a super sunny day so I dragged my Mrs out for a spin. I’ve never been up the glens when the skiers are out doing their thing.
Luckily the rush hour was over and we sailed past hundreds of parked cars at both Glenshee and the Lecht.






The Fire Station café was nice and quiet for a pit stop. Never parked the bike on snow



Laggan was looking its best




Took a wee diversion up Glen Etive to see where 007 and M had their wee chat in the movie. I’m not sure I clocked the right bridge, but we were only about 4.5 miles in and my good lady was getting twitchy as the sun went down.




I had only given our 2 cars their new year wash last week and bugger, I had to wash them again today (the other one went down south at weekend).



[ps - Saw the chopper hovering beside Ben Nevis - fingers crossed for the missing couple.]

[pps - and once more I forgot to downsize the photos and had to re-do it all. Why can another forum simply let me lift pics off my iPad, but here I have to wrestle with fuckitbucket and paint and edit out ~original from file names??]

 

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Cheeky wee screen grab from skyfall as well.

 

[Posh Pete]

Lovely day yesterday. Just looked oot the curtains and it's a bit different the day!

I can remember riding up to Donside via Glenshee on the R80 and the skiers were skiing right across the road! Further on and the snow was at shoulder height and the missus got off to walk. Handy to help pick the bike up also! The locals in the pub that night were all talking about a mad bugger on a motor bike who they'd seen coming over that day.

 

[G.C.]

I do like the ski run, run.

ps - Saw the chopper hovering beside Ben Nevis - fingers crossed for the missing couple.]

Not looking good.

Very challenging conditions during search for Rachel and Tim. 80/90mph winds with windchill giving temperature which feels like -20c. Two of the rescue team men avalanched traversing below No 3 Gully Buttress.
Today there were 36 people out from Lochaber MRT, RAF MRT and 3 members of SARDA Scotland. After 5 hours of searching, it was decided that conditions were too dangerous to continue search which was focused on Coire na Ciste and South Trident Buttress area following a possible sighting of 2 people fitting their description climbing in this area early Sunday afternoon.