Climbing & Snow-biking

Went rock-climbing at Ratho on Saturday, which is actually the largest rock-climbing arena in the world. It's a really impressive centre, but was never finished due to a lack of funding...maybe it'll be completed at some point though. Fun day climbing, but felt pretty weak having not climbed since Thailand...I need to find time to get back into it!

Neil had come over from Glasgow, so we joined Gav, Jen, Ross x 2 and a few others at the Grassmarket and watched the rugby (enough about that), then went out for a couple of drinks afterwards. Karen Paterson (otherwise known as KP) was home for the weekend so she came out for a bit too - having not seen each other for probably 4 years, we didn't stop talking for about 2 hours...it was really fun to catch up, we had a good gossip!

On Sunday it was snowing heavily, even in Stockbridge, so our plan to go moutain-biking at Glen Tress was looking unlikely. Neil (being slightly mad on mtn-biking) thought we could try the Pentlands anyway, so we had an 'interesting' day (!) battling the wind & pushing through some high snow drifts, but it really was quite fun. Didn't realise how much the wind can take it out of you - I was really shattered when I got back.

Snow Drifts