This years Epic Summer trip

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Well it couldn't last. Forecast for today was wrong. You literally couldn't see twenty feet all morning. We left it until 11:30 and packed up and left. Now in the Carrefour car park at Argeles le Goolies en route to a cpp Aire. It's crap here as well but at least you can see.

Good fun coming down a mountain on a narrow road waiting for the Cows to appear out of the mist.

Nothing can take away the magical day and evening two days ago though. Absolutely fantastic. That's the mountains for you I guess.

 

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Not too bad an afternoon in the end. A 15 mile ride around some of the lower mountain villages, got caught in a huge downpour and my waterproof trousers failed so my shorts underneath were soaking. Came back and jumped in the secret private swimming pool and did 60 lengths of that. Michelle went and walked up to some Rapunzel tower but the webcams of all the high up places including where we were are just blanked out with cloud and rain.

Got a text off Camping Car Park to warn us of an Orange weather alert where we are and to remain "Vigilant". Not sure what that means we have to do. Not go swimming and riding about on bikes perhaps.

The Gaslow must be running on Vapour (Still have a Calor backup) as its showing empty. One theory I have is to get above the clouds back up to 6000ft+ and break through the cloud level That could spectacularly backfire of course and I bet ill have to get up to Tarbes first though in the opposite direction to find LPG or just run the calor down as temperatures up there in the coming days are down to 6c at night. Will just keep an eye on the weather and take it from there.