sticking point

There was a nice progression to the various wind-wrought delay mechanisms on the way in this morning, starting with simple leaves on the WoL, moving up to biggish twigs and the odd stick and solid carpets of leaves on the Chancelot path to a path-wide but hoickable-out-of-the-way tree-let in Pilton (at which two other people prepared to stop and help conveniently arrived just as I was starting to hoick), followed by a path-wide and still-attached-to-the-ground tree just south of Craigleith (round which it was possible to go, at the expense of the grass on the verge) and concluding with the small collection of trees which had all been attempting to use the same shallow path of embankment to root themselves in, which were greatly impeding the progress of anyone wanting to move between Ravelston Dykes and Roseburn. I don't know if it was the absence of panniers or the use of exotic lightweight materials which made the first two bikes I lifted off people approaching from the south but they were much easier to hoick over than mine.