Saturday, January 06, 2018

Deepsyke Dead Ends


I had planned a long route in the areas South of Penicuik. These are generally fairly bleak areas particularly on a freezing january morning. The first off-road path immediately looked impassible with ground water and very rough terrain so detoured around to the main entrance to Deepsyke Forest. The route through at the far end led to some-ones garden and I decided not to traipse through but to reverse round and do some more exploring in the forest. Trails are quite nice but no obvious circuits - certainly not when everything so wet.

Back onto the road I travelled East to Whitmuir and then back to West Linton and a long slog into the wind travelling North to the care. Feet were frozen solid by the end. There are limits to how long I can be out in weather like this.


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