
This morning’s Vigne-a-Vigne mountain bike ride (someone of my ability couldn’t possibly call it a ‘race’) zig-zagged around the hills and mountains above Lourensford Estate in Somerset West. It is one of the most spectacular organised mountain bike rides of the year … but not for the faint-hearted. Take a look at the route profile below:
Regardless of my limited athletic ability, the point of the exercise remains to get around the course in the least possible time, so my iPhone was only pulled out a couple of times. Here are a few more pics:


And, finally, for reference here is the landscape from the perspective of the Google satellites:

