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With work being so busy just now I decided to take the day off as the forecast was mint.
Plan was to drive out to Callater Car Park and ride in from there, the car park being just south of Braemar and north of the UK's highest road on the A93.
A friend of mine did this route during the week (walking) and said I should be fine riding it on my ebike and I've also watched a few (as it happens, carefully edited) mtb vids of the descent.
From the car park it's a 3 mile..ish relatively flat landy track to the Loch, then the climb up behind the lodge.
Lodge where the arrow is......
It was about this point where the riding ended as I hauled 24 kilos of metal and rubber in the shape of a bicycle up a Scottish Mountain.
At about 800 metres I'd had enough of dragging this lump of metal and abandoned it and went seeking the summit and plane wreckage. After a fairly brutal accent it was back down to find my awesome steed still in situ for what I had hoped a good ride back down...
Nope, rode about 100 yards all in, it was horrendous and in summary I wouldn't do it again, certainly not on a bike anyway, but at least the views were nice.
22nd November, 1956 a military plane crashed on the Munro I was heading up, although I had no idea where, anyway, mate who was up there during the week found some of the wreckage and while I was up there, I called him to point me in the direction of it.
There isn't much left tbh but there is a fair size piece of wing and other parts strewn about once you know where to go.
Anyway, here's a link to what happened if anyone is interested.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/21102
Some pics of the wing and other parts, circa 3000 feet/1000 metres up in the Scottish hills.
Finally the route/strava height gain etc.
Plan was to drive out to Callater Car Park and ride in from there, the car park being just south of Braemar and north of the UK's highest road on the A93.
A friend of mine did this route during the week (walking) and said I should be fine riding it on my ebike and I've also watched a few (as it happens, carefully edited) mtb vids of the descent.
From the car park it's a 3 mile..ish relatively flat landy track to the Loch, then the climb up behind the lodge.
Lodge where the arrow is......
It was about this point where the riding ended as I hauled 24 kilos of metal and rubber in the shape of a bicycle up a Scottish Mountain.
At about 800 metres I'd had enough of dragging this lump of metal and abandoned it and went seeking the summit and plane wreckage. After a fairly brutal accent it was back down to find my awesome steed still in situ for what I had hoped a good ride back down...
Nope, rode about 100 yards all in, it was horrendous and in summary I wouldn't do it again, certainly not on a bike anyway, but at least the views were nice.
22nd November, 1956 a military plane crashed on the Munro I was heading up, although I had no idea where, anyway, mate who was up there during the week found some of the wreckage and while I was up there, I called him to point me in the direction of it.
There isn't much left tbh but there is a fair size piece of wing and other parts strewn about once you know where to go.
Anyway, here's a link to what happened if anyone is interested.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/21102
Some pics of the wing and other parts, circa 3000 feet/1000 metres up in the Scottish hills.
Finally the route/strava height gain etc.