7 Stanes - Dalbeattie

A great mini adventure today, heading to Scotland with Rachael to mountain bike. We decided upon Dalbeattie, as I hadn't been to this trail for years and Rachael had never been.

Great banter (and caffeine) saw us there quickly, but we both found the 24km red route really hard! Not sure if we were just being wimps but we had to side step a lot of the countless wet rocky bits, and I didn't dare try the infamous 'slab' as it was wet and completely coated in pine needles (it would have ended badly I'm sure).

We vowed to return on a drier day when we both felt more in 'the groove' to try the technical bits again. A fun, restorative day out :-) .