After the Snow

The snow is finally away from Whitelee and Ciaran and I headed out for a cycle. He has never been cross country and was keen to see what its like.
I noticed through the week that the normal entrance is not available - they seem to be increasing the car park. That's good news as the car park was way too small, but we will have to go in via the spine road rather than the visitor centre.
Its amazing to see the place without all the snow. It was totally covered only 10 days ago, but apart from the reservoir still having some ice and a few isolated snow patches, you would never know. The roads aren't even all that wet!

 Given that Ciaran has never been off road he did really well. He took it easy down the first descent but opened up on the second one. There is a lot of loose rock and the surface is not good - he did well to keep control. He was more impressed when we got round to the other side and could see the hill we came down.