...rather than a Night at the Opera

Bill and I chose some night time navigation practice rather than heading for a re-run of the inaugural performance of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta at Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala, in Milano - night time nav has never had such appeal :) Anyway, we headed for Shantron Hill off the A817 near Faslane and did a bit of pacing, timing and walking on a bearing. We did a lot of contour interpretation and matching bearings to the map and vice a versa too. Mark couldn't make it due to carrying me at the weekend; we missed him terribly and let him know we were enjoying ourselves on some grade two ground;

Other than having fun, it was actually damn cold near the top in a chilly, biting wind, evidenced by ice on the pavement back home. Sadly, it was all gone in the morning as a warm front moved over us. Wednesday's remain nav night, Thursday are Opera and Sunday's are climbing, and biking...in what order is determined by the weather. Sadly, we missed the Opera, which was apparently half decent; the location might catch on :)