turned back...

[MooN]

well I set off to go see the Lac des Settons empty but was turned back by the weather.

 grey sky and just spitting when I set off at about 13h30. I'd planned a 4h round trip using only minor roads.  I'd got about an hour in when the odd spot of rain tuened into what my mother would call "mizzle" 

 I was pleasantly dry and warm in my gear and being alons had no qualms about riding slowly along some very greasy back lanes. The wind started getting up from the south west and the temperature started, if anything to increase somewhat.  We had the first of the automn storms about a week ago and evidence of this was all over the road in places. I found one spot with a tree down across the road and had to box round it.  The wind was really getting up and the rain coming down harder. It stopped being fun after coming round a corner and finding a dead branch across the road very obviously very recently come down,  I decided to pull the plug and turned for avallon and fuel before heading home.

coming into Avallon the back way

 i'd run ahead of the rain  but bu the time I'd fuelled it was catching me up again so I headed North and a bit East to stay in front of the weather and ride some back roads I havent done before.  I got home after 2 hours out having done about 130 km.

 

 

 

I tried a panoramic of that shot but can't decide which I prefer

 

[XTreme]

Nice shots Chris......we've still got good weather here but I think it's going to change a bit this week.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

I think you'll find it'll be fine up til I catch the ferry on the 16th Oct

[Pedro]

I like how you plan 4 or more hour long rides, Chris. I never do that and it's either a short local ride with no plan that can turn out to last anything from 1 hour to 3 or 4 including lunch, or something that ends with overnight stops somewhere else.

Cool looking forest road, too!

[boboneleg]

Wow, it's looking very green ...............

 

[MooN]

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

I like how you plan 4 or more hour long rides, Chris. I never do that and it's either a short local ride with no plan that can turn out to last anything from 1 hour to 3 or 4 including lunch, or something that ends with overnight stops somewhere else.

Cool looking forest road, too!

its easy enough to plan an afternoons ride with todays technology Pedro, even for a self confessed technophobe like me.   I plan routes on the laptop and then transfer them to the phoe for navigation.  I often do this of an evening when I'm bored, that way when the fancy takes me, its all ready in the phone and I just hit GO

[MooN]

3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Wow, it's looking very green ...............

 

it is. green and damp, depite what the doom and gloom sayers might say.  just atarting to turn yellow round the edges though.

[Grasshopper]

Beautiful shots! 

We could really use some of that rain here, way too dry for October.

[skyrider]

and the tree's are starting to go rusty around us now