With the racing over and tired legs what better way to enjoy Easter Monday than running up to the top of Snaefell - even the mountain railway hasn't yet started so why are we doing it ?
At just over 2000ft its the highest point in the Isle of Man and a wild and windy place to be even in summer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaefell.
A nice early start with Paul and Michela with a short drive round past Bungalow (part of the Isle of Man TT course) to our base camp. The first mile was on road till we met with the Islands 'Millenium Way' and then it was up, up, up and even more up with a solid moorland climb for about 30 minutes till we met the route of the mountain railway which we followed to the summit. It was blowing a gale on top and was certainly below freezing judging by all the ice we had seen on the way up and the big pieces of ice breaking off th TV and radio masts on the summit.
What goes up must come down and it was ceratinly more fun coming down (and quicker) - we headed back down across the mountain railway again and then straight down to the mountain road before then joining the Millenium way again to circumnavigate the mountain before heading back to the car - in total only about 10 miles but with hard climbs of over 3000ft the cooked breakfast that followed was more than welcome !
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