I woke this morning to a white frost and a shower of sleety snow, didn't think it would clear up to get the bike out but boy was I wrong! By lunchtime it was blue skies here in the N.E of Scotland so rolled out the Africa for a blast.
I thought I'd pop up to the Lecht, as there was a flurry of snow down my way I thought I'd check out the ski slopes, see if it was time to break out the snowboard! I headed up through Dufftown, fought the urge to take more distillery photos and opted for Balvenie castle, just above the Glenfiddich distillery (said I'd not mention distilleries or whisky! Lol!)
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I then headed up past Glenlivet to Tomintoul and onwards to the Lecht. As you can see, there's a light dusting but no snow for snowboarding yet!
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Beautiful views in the winter sunshine looking over toward Deeside
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Here's a pic of the dash showing the temp did actually get above freezing! It shows 1c!
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The ice wasn't thick enough to hold up me and the CRF! Lol!
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Here's a view of Corgarff castle
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I then headed back down through Tomintoul and down past the Tomintoul distillery to Glenlivet, past Drumin castle, a stronghold of the legendary Wolf of Badenoch and onwards to Aberlour! Home via the Thomas Telford bridge in Craigellachie and home to Elgin.
And finally a shot of the Thomas Telford bridge in Craigellachie.
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A cracking ride out on the Honda CRF1000L Africa twin, almost 10k miles and can't fault the bike. No photos of distilleries were taken,,,, although quite a few were mentioned! Lol! Enjoy!
