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We got off to a reasonable start by 8:30am today. After leaving Garva Bridge we stopped in at Laggan "Wolftrax" mountain biking center for a huge slice (well two really) of Lemon Cake with a gallon of hot chocolate. After leaving Wolftrax, we took a wrong turn and headed in the wrong direction for about 2Km before bumping into two other challengers who set us straight 🙁

There was lots of road walking today and poor Lynn’s feet had major blister troubles needing lots of patching. We stayed off the major roads where possible keeping to military roads paralleling the A89. These routes above Newtonmore and Kingussie were beautiful.

On heading into Kingussie, we saw lots of rabbits (literally 10’s) who lived in a large rabbit warren on the side of a hill. We were traversing across the top and I had a vision of a collapsing hillside due to our weight!

By the time we reach Kingussie, we were both mentally and physically exhausted.    Lynn had been fighting wicked blister pain all day.  The first think we saw when entering the town was our friend Jackie with a glass of wine in her hand. Two minutes later and were in the bar sucking down a pint of ale. Champion!  We stayed at the Silverfjord Hotel which was superb. The bar food was great with a great breakfast menu. Rooms were big, nice and comfortable with a fantastic set of radiators for drying socks.

Our BPL blister kit was earning it’s keep today.  This is a combination of gauze, tincture of  benzoin, leukotape and hydropel gel.   Unfortunately we were out of leukotape but found a good alternative “zinc oxide tape” at the local pharmacy.

Kingussie was the location of our number 2 food drop which made it safe and sound.  Opening the box was a but like a Christmas experience.

Distance today was 30km making 129km to date

On to day 7