Easter Sunday and with he coast no doubt mobbed as it usually is here in East Lothian we again headed into the local Lammermuir Hills a cycle and once again rode yet another loop on gravel roads, there really is miles of tracks up here if you take the time and study an OS map, G grew up on a hill farm in Berwickshire on the eastern edge of the Lammermuirs and has cycled up here all her mountain biking life so knows the hills better than I think anyone else who cycles up here, once again she pulled another loop out the bag after a look at the map and a regular well known loop from the Watch Reservoir at Longfermacus with a twist as it used a track we think no one has probably cycled as only been extended from a dead end track which previously only purpose was to access Grouse shooting butts, now we could make a great loop and we were up early for what turned out a nice long days ride with 18 miles and a healthy 2,346 ft of climbing, only a strengthening easterly headwind spoiled a fast freewheel return on the super fast gravel highway off Fallago Rig...
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