The Rough Stuff Event is our annual opportunity to meet with other CTC members from South and West Devon. This year’s event followed an interesting route through the lanes around Bovey Tracey and took around 2½ hours to complete. Many tracks were included, some of which were new to us: one was so steep that nobody could climb more than half way up!

Seb was first from our Section (fourth overall), Tao was first junior and Ben Hobday (ably assisted by Ken) was the youngest participant. We’d like to thank Arthur Browne for organising the event, and his wife for supplying endless quantities of tea, squash, buns and biscuits from the trailer.

Kevin and Dawn Presland, living temporarily at Ilsington while they search for a new home, accompanied us as far as Haytor as we rode homewards across the moor.