Well it would be dull if I just walked up them all wouldn’t it?  With two boys enthusiastic for all things mountain bikey, it looked to me on the map that we ought to be able to get quite a way up Meikle Bin, which is up in the Campsies above the Carron Valley reservoir.  The problem was, despite home having been some time completely snow-free, we’d not long left the car park when things got a wee bit icy.  We had some fun trying to negotiate a non-lethal route, getting quite expert at spotting fine gradations of slipperiness depending on how the ice looked and what it was covering.  But there came a point where even the finest mountain bike tyres (and only one of the three of us had those) could no longer move forwards.  So we left the bikes in a handy snowdrift, and Everest-expeditioned our way (a handy picnic table served as Base Camp) to the windswept and rather cloudy summit.  On another day, as it turns out, it would have been pretty straightforward to get all the way to the top on the bikes…

Check out the track conditions on the way back down…