Saturday 2nd June 2012.  Dun Fell.  A bike ride up Britain's highest paved road.

That was a BRUTAL climb, on Britain's highest paved road, made much worse by a very strong wind against us the entire way up.  And it was very cold.  I did it with our Liam and we were in heavy cloud from about 700 feet so were denied a view and denied a clue as to where we had to ride to.  When we got to the summit, it was so cloudy, it was possible to stand there and not see the huge golf-ball that sits on the top!

I had the nous to take some liner gloves and put these over my cycling mitts so was prevented the bitter-fingered pain of the cold intensified by the wind-chill on the incredibly fast descent.  Liam didn't have the foresight so suffered accordingly on the way down.

There's no doubt we'll go back to do it in more favourable conditions but coming down fast on a bike gave us an experience you never get walking or running down a mountain.  We descended at speeds of up to 50 mph and so we dropped below the clouds in the blink of an eye rather than getting used to it incrementally.  A really wonderful part of the world to see by bike.

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