Andy, Scott and I decided to go and have a wee looksie on the off  chance that it might be ok to go climbing in Lochnagar.  The weather forecast was not the most encouraging but as ever they are not always correct and I am one for ‘giving it a go’ just in case Mr weather has not got his ducks in a row.

We set off on bikes again from the car park, it was already snowing pretty heavily on the way up making it a little harder than normal on the bikes having to ride through snow.  All the time thinking…. skis – where the hell are my skis! We dumped the bikes a bit lower than normal due to the path being proper ice rink like with sheet ice all over it.  As we got higher up the weather got worse and worse,  it wasn’t particularly cold in the snow but rather wet and we were slowly getting wetter and wetter

Andy above.  As we got closer to the Meikle Pap col, the weather was getting wilder and we all kind of gave each other that look, the ” seriously this sucks” look.  After much discussion which went something like this ” this is shit, lets go to the pub – ok, ok” we turned back and decided it was not to be that day.  The idea of climbing in this weather appealed to none of us!

The look of three blokes who decided to go to the pub!  On the way back down Scott was reliving a story of when he scissored kicked walking down there and landed on his arse.  Just as he said it he re-enacted it just for us, was so funny, through laughter Andy ended up doing the same.  I was nearly crying with tears whilst the two of them scrabbled around on the floor trying to stand back up

We got back to the bikes and by now a fair bit of snow had fallen making the ride back down slippy slidy fun!  When we reached the bottom riding in the Glen it was proper horrible.  The wind and snow was coming straight down off the hill and smacking you full force making it hard to ride the bikes.

Once back at the can we all agreed it was a good decision and all that was to decide now was which pub to go to……