Back in Colorado and straight into bus driving. This pic from the driver's seat on the Snowmass Balloonfest weekend. About 30 of them in the air at the same time !
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| M on Airline trail heading to Aspen |
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| Capital Peak and Mt Daly from top of the South Rim Trail |
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| Horseranch trail heading to top of North Rim trail |
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| Last phase of the Mall development |
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| Clear and precise trail signage |
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| Coming down off Village Bound |
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| This is how it ended up - for me anyway ! |
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| A barbecue after the swim with the Kellys at Balnafettack |
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| M's inspiration Sheila |
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| The Swim |
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| Looks an awful long way - and it was. |
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| M "completes" making it back to the South jetty. At about exactly the same time I was being escorted into an ambulance with hyperthermia on the North jetty ! |
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| Anna, friend, Jane and Elin |
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| With Cormac at the Commando statue , Spean Bridge |
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| M with Cormac looking over to Inverness castle |
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| A happy laddie |
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| Training for the Kessock swim , but joined by Cormac |
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| M, Margie, Anna. Jane. Johannes, Elin and Catherine |
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| Cormac, Richard , sister Ros and Jeremy |
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| Cormac , M , Johannes and Ben from Australia |
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| Ben, Anna, Elin, Johannes, Cormac and M |
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| Cormac and Aunty Martha |
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| Elin, M, Martha, Jane, Meghan, Cormac, Angus, Anna, and Iona |
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| Meghan and Angus at Landmark Carrbridge |
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| Cormac, Anna, Meghan, Angus, Elin, and Iona |
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| Elin |
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| Anna |
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| A night with Wilf Stevenson in SW Co. Cork |
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| Evening view from their house - stunning |
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| Iona, Meghan and M minutes before Iona's swordfish sting |
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| Lisa , Johnny Gilfoyle, M , Alan and Dennis |
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| Cormac and Iona at the Rock Pools at Kilkee |
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| Keith, M and Fiona to stay at Balnafettack |
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| My cousin Vivi and her friend setting off from Balnafettack en route to Glasgow on hill tracks. |
The Rock pools at Kilkee were sheltered from this - just ! |
| The Kellys to Inverness. Laura, M and Tim |
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| Tim getting the full Russell experience |
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| Greg and Di Desson to stay |
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| A visit back to St Michael's, Linlithgow....... |
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| ..... while also biking up to our old house The Farmhouse |
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| and catching up with Jane and James Bruce |
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| And a view down to Humbie Cottage from where we moved to Linlithgow in 1990. Solar panels were not ours but the conservatory was. |
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| A night with old pal Spencer Patrick and his wife Gail |
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| Alice ( nee Gibbons ) and family that I met at Holyrood Palace en route to East Lothian - not fully laden bike |
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| A night in East Linton with Will and Jo Lindsay |
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| Meanwhile Alice and her family had arrived in Inverness and here with M, Jane, Anna and Erin |
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| With Alice back at Holyrood |
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| Biking from Lincoln to North Yorkshire, these hidden tree roots almost caused a disaster |
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| Andrew Latchmore outside the pub at Apppletreewick |
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| Rod Rhodes in Knaresborough |
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| Stayed a couple of nights with John and Viv Heaps in Nidd, Yorkshire |
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| John |
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| John and grandson Finlay |
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| And a night with Nimble and Morvern Thompson on Kirkby Malzeard north of Ripon |
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| A delightful day biking with my niece Nicola north of Newcastle |
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| Hannah, Nicola, Paul and Natalie |
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| With my sister Jean |
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| Back in Balnafettack, sunset on top of Craig Padraig |
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