Early morning showers and Vicky’s puncture delayed the group’s arrival at the Gappah pick-up by nearly thirty minutes. Fortunately (from our point of view) young Simon Lewis from Dawlish had arrived at Gappah with a broken derailleur, so the Torbay group had not exactly been idle.

As is so often the case the day started exactly as it intended to continue in all respects other than the weather. Following a delightful lunch at the Obelisk one of the Dawlish lads suggested an interesting track route through the forest. This in itself yielded only one puncture, but four of the boys decided to go round again while repairs were effected. When Richard punctured half way around the others decided that perhaps they had better wait quietly with the rest of the group this time.

Returning home via Dawlish and Teignmouth yielded two more punctures from Luke and Andrew and a rather late arrival home for tea.