Dartmoor

[Taylor]

Thanks to Pedalhead for organising/driving this one.
Saw the tour of Britain from the top of a Cat 1 climb, after we'd ridden it ourselves of course, loaded up. I got a fair bit of heckling as I laboured up the hill too.
The pro's made it look ridiculously easy.
After that my legs were ruined and steadily got worse as the weekend went on.
Meanwhile, Ian and Mark beasted themselves up numerous climbs whilst wittering on about Strava.
Weather was good yesterday with a bit of rain overnight and some windy overcast conditions for today.
I didn't get any photo's as the wife had the camera for the weekend, sorry.

Except this lazy sod relaxing!

[pedalhead]

aw I missed out on the hot tub!

What a great weekend. Super weather, some great trails and a peachy bivy spot.

A few pics (album link - http://s1059.photobucket.com/albums/t43 ... vy%20trip/)...

[Ian]

Wow, I haven't had as good a weekend out riding and bivvying for a long time. Great to ride some new areas and thoroughly enjoyed it, even the long moorland bits. Some ace woody singletrack too. Good bivvy spot and good company. We even had a nice little fire going.

Hot tub was a nice (unexpected) end to the weekend, but a little odd with an audience of cows

[Stevemorg]

looks great guys - sorry I couldn't make it!

[Ray Young]

Lovin the bivi spot, very atmospheric.

[slugwash]

I'm also sorry to have missed this. Looks like you had a good 'un.

Also, apologies to pedalhead for sending a duff link to a possible trail amendment to his route. I was trying to send it from my smartphone and it all went wrong. I also signed up to Dropbox to download his GPX files only to end up inadvertantly uploading all the files and photos from my phone and grossly exceeding my months internet allowance in the process

I'm now looking forwards to some autumn action out on the Moor... once the current onslaught of rain stops and it all drys out a bit

[pedalhead]

No worries matey, most of the route was nicely ridable, and some bits were downright bloody marvellous (I'm thinking in particular some of the stuff around Burrator Reservoir). I can imagine that the exposed moorland trails could be a nightmare if saturated..they were pretty slow going even when mostly dry.