Sunday run out

Nice sunny day on Sunday so decided to take the long way to visit the family. Makes a change from welding patches onto Ulysses!



Detour to start around Haltwhistle area and end up at Garrigill. Gopro and gimbal out and on the job...

1st lane was Plenmeller. A former open cast coal mine, so the track is fairly new and allows a bit of speed :evil:





and it goes on (see Riccy G on youtube for the rest of them).

Next was a old favourite down into Whitfield valley:





Then over to Issac's tea trail to get from the Allen valley over to Alston:

Nice long rocky washout to start:



then over the top complete with a slow Hilux and some smiley walkers having their lunch:



Theres a couple more of stuff between gates but then onto the drop into a mine (anthracite i think):




Next was a bit of road to Blaygill and a couple of tracks there:



and down to the farm with a couple of nice small rock steps:



then over the river its splashy back up to the main road:




And thats as far as i got on the planned route. There was one more lane down into Garrigill ford, but ive done this plenty enough before so skipped it in favour of seeing the relatives!

Riccy.

Cracking that Riccy...

sniper

Nice!