
Winter forest
After breaking my pelvis in the Annapurna this summer my plans for 10,000km and 100,000m of ascent are completely out of reach, I’ll be lucky to reach half of my target. Nonetheless we have been blessed with some cycling weather in November and December; something we didn’t get last year due to all the snow.
Yesterday Ria spent all day cooking for our dinner party so Veda and I were joined by Johan and Brigitta for a ride. I wanted to see how far the Ravel goes towards Luxembourg. Every day I drive past where it crosses the N62 and have been curious to see if the tunnel into Luxembourg is open or not. Of corse we didn’t just follow the Ravel, we are Mountain Bikers after all, so we went cross country to Lengeler Bahnhoff, joining the Ravel at Burg Reuland. Unfortunately the newly surfaced part was covered in a layer of ice so we turned back.
I’ll find out about the tunnel another day!
Today just Veda and I were out to look for some good downhill trails, Wr found the one I wanted and it was perfect. Through the beech trees and about 400m long. 400m is not much by Alpine standards, but here in East Belgium, it is quite good.
The only problem was the temperature, around 1°C is quite cold for Veda’s feet so I think he will join Ria in not riding when it is too cold in the future. 😉
Anyway the weekend gave us 2 rides of over 2 hours each and a good chance to be out in the saddle in winter.