Boarder Ridge - Cheviots

Must have been some army exercise on today because the place looked like Basra on a good day, squadies all over the place. Anyway, set off from the car park at the bottom of The Street and headed along the road towards the first climb. Bit of a push up here and at the top I came across a green tent with an HF radio anntena sticking out of it, no sign of anyone, just have been out practacing some bush craft.



The last time I was up here doing this route there were wooden duck boards over the marshy bits, they have now been replaced with granite slabs, very handy. I got to a section were there was a bit of water over top of the stones, you couldn't actually see the stone because the water was brown; one of the stone was missing and I went head first over the bars, the front of the bike disappeared, I small child could have been killed if they had fallen into that.

Carried on along the boarder until I reached the mountain refuge hut where I stopped for 15 minutes for lunch then carried on over the top towards the start of the downhill section where The Street crosses the boarder into Scotland. Just before I got to the top a Tornado jet flew right over the top of me, very low. The Street would have been great but there were too many gates, which you have to stop to open/close, I think that Clennal Street is a much better downhill than this and the approach to it is more ridable as well.

All in all not a bad day, bit cold to start with but the sun was out and it turned very nice later on.

Avoriaz 2007

A short video with a jump and a trip down the black run with Nico.