Wet Wednesday

Only 6 hardy Westies (including new guy Martin) turned up at the Strathblane War Memorial for this Wednesday’s run, presumably everyone else was away at Kinnoul. The rain was getting heavier as we prepared to set off and once out on the hillside we had a strengthening wind to contend with. The last part of the climb up Slackdhu had the wind behind but even that was not enough to entice me onward to Dumfoyn and Dumgoyne. On the way off we saw Pauline and Martin heading down as well so only Ana, Johanes, Jason and his dog headed on towards the remaining hills. A good bit above Cantywheery I encountered 5 very wet mountain bikers looking for a way back to Strathblane as an alternative to the Pipe Track so I gave them a couple of options and left them to it. The run back along the Pipe Track was into a full head wind and stinging rain so I was glad to get back into the trees and then the car. Quite a baptism, literally, for Martin, hope it did not put him off. Only highlight was managing to get a photo of Cantywheery Cottage for the Geograph project, don’t know how Chris missed out on this on!