All of a sudden winter is well and truly upon us and an incredibly dramatic storm on Friday night left Dublin covered in a blanket of snow for the weekend. So while the roadies sat indoors for hours on their turbo trainers, we headed for the hills for some fantastic mountain biking.
singletrack starts at home
The off-road ride begins at your front door in this weather with loads of sliding around on the snowy streets.
Dublin Bay
Three rock on Saturday was a fast, slidery playground with a perfect amount of snow for riding through with just enough grip. Sunshine, dramatic skies and spectacular views over Dublin and the sea.
Road biking suddenly seems more interesting
This morning we headed further afield, taking the mountain bikes for a road ride to Djouce and then ducking into the woods for a few trails. There was a real sense of expedition, an eerie silence and only deer prints for company as people in cars couldn’t make it up that far until later in the day when the roads began to melt. I hope the novelty value can last, at the moment I love winter! A four hour ride in the snow is lot more tiring than it would normally be though.
Powerscourt waterfall
GC is a narrow singletrack with a big cliff drop off the side of it -gets pretty interesting when covered in snow!
'GC' singletrack
There are a few more photos taken over the weekend here.
Lovely pictures!
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What fab pictures and lovely to read all your reports. Had a scarey ride on the board walk in Gisburn Forest recently-would have been easy to you!! but your old aunty with replaced knees found it scarey!! Can’t wait for the weekend to play in the snow we have loads here.
xx
thanks, just got a pocket size camera so hopefully loads more mountain pics to come!
Careful Splash, snow is fun, ice is scary! and with your injury track record…