The Pentland Ridge for John's Birthday Walk

We headed to Edinburgh for John's Birthday Walk which started at Hillend Ski Slope on the Pentlands. Unfortunately there was one or two last minute absentees due to illness and accidents. Elizabeth has broken her wrist while out walking at the weekend and was due to get a new plaster on it today and Sandria has a bad cold. Hopefully Sandria will be fully fit for her Baltic Cruise this weekend and Elizabeth will take a wee bit longer to recover so we wish her a speedy recovery. We were joined by Elspeth's brother Ron who took this photo.

Edinburgh from lower down on the Pentlands.

The road ahead and some dark clouds forming. We had to cut short the walk and therefore missed one loop but we would have been heading into the wind and rain so decided it was better to have them at our backs instead.

Climbing up to the ridge. Our guest walker Ron is wearing the dark glasses probably to prevent him being dazzled by Martins Jumper. 

Edinburgh and the new Forth Road Bridge in the distance. 

This was our highest point at about 1600ft and it was blowing a gale.  

We had a coffee at the Ski Centre cafe on our return where Tom is trying to work out how to take a photo on his new cheap phone but discovered it does not have a camera.

The Ski Slope and despite the lift working all the time we were there nobody was there to Ski.