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-5'C during the day  O0 O0

A few from my recent trip to the Tauernrally in Austria

The level of snow from the inside of my tent I usually woke up about every 2 hours pushing the snow of my tent which was a bit of a pain. So Sunday arrived and i am not ashamed to admit that i hardly slept and i was shitting myself with fear. The Snow plough got stuck the night before so...

    This is the only pic i have which sort of shows the steepness of the hill Oh did i mentioned it snowed? A lot It was mentioned we would expect about 40cm in the night,well it was more I brought all my cooking gear but gave up after the first attempt at a curry nearly killed me with...

The Sunset was stunning Since J does not drink this was all mine Temperatures where not too bad so i felt confident for the night This is the bike of the 17 year old kid with one year riding experience At night rescue missions where launched at regular intervalls when late comers...

With AnyB loosing his baffle he decided to hop onto the Motorway so as not to attract to much attention with the local police while we took a bit of the scenic route. So J and I arrived in Trieben,Austria in the Valley and had some coffee and a bite to eat before we attempted the climb up to the...

Ok first up i want to point out that it was a post here on ABR Forum which brought the Tauernrally to my attention.I saw a pic of a Tent buried in snow which sparked my interest. Tauernrally is a bike meet in Austria every year in January,bit of camping up on a ski hut about 1500m up in the...

Cool,i got the drinks :biggrin:

My current favourite

WOW respect.My wife would beat my kidneys to a pulp if i would go anywhere near a off road track 2up :lol8: But i guess it makes picking the bike up easier 8)

Yep sounds about right. I would just change Stornoway (never been) for Glencoe.These mad scotch guys got strange drinking habbits :biggrin: as my friend demonstrates here :biggrin: and yes i did suffer from high altitude sickness the next day ::)

It was good fun Nothing a good braai could not sort out(and a few beers) No need for a beer fridge

Nope that was not cold. This was cold Elephant Rally 2010 and i could not find my balls anymore as it was -17'C 8)

Did Applecross before also a few of us suffered High altitude sickness(Babbelaas) so we decided to go straight to Ullapool