We arrived on the Wednesday and stayed at Barnsould farm. On Thursday we went to Mabie and did the red route.
I'll cut right to the chase and tell you that the trail was instantly forgettable apart from the tyre split.
I got my first puncture on my way to a wee bridge across a burn. Conditions were almost tropical.
Less than fifteen minutes later I had another one on a fairly innocuous stretch of track, and it was loud. Something wasn't right and a closer inspection by Saunders found that problem.
This later photo shows the cause. A split tyre.
Well we were deep in the tropical Mabie forest and needed a fix to get us home. I suggested a wrapper of some kind and Saunders said he had a Gel, so we scoffed it and patched the tyre.
When we got back to the van we decided that we had to go to the skills area in order to get some excitement out of the day. That's when we had our another memorable moment. Saunders chain snapped.
So all in all the fairly forgettable Mabie gets 4/10.
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