Scotland coast to coast walk
This was to be an exciting high level route – a reward from the tribulations of boggy ground and dangerous river crossing from the day before. Leaving the bothy Maol Bhuidhe My original plan – which is reflected in the map – was to camp the night somewhere near Carnach and start the day on […]
There has been some strange happenings with my access to OS mapping. After a couple of weeks it suddenly became unavailable. At first I thought it was a service problem, but other sites continued to work normally. Without help from OS Technical Support all I could do was set up a new user ID and
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The Snake Pass Inn is in an excellent location between two of the highest masses in the Peak District – namely Kinder and Bleakhow. The room decor is bizarre, but people aren’t coming here a 4 star hotel experience. Several of my companions in fact decided to forego the room experience altogether and camped
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Need to get the maps out and find the timetable for Torridon! …
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That giant among surgeons Mr Sean O’Leary was all ready this morning to attempt to repeat his great success in stabilising the right knee (see story in December 2012). This time the focus was on the left side. As you can see the process starts with an arrow drawn on the ankle below. And finishes
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Morar & The Way East! Here’s some of the pictures. Click on any picture below …. you will probably a a zoomed image showing more detail. The location map feature is not available here. TGO blogs for following years include OS maps of the route which no longer work on the original Google’s Blogspot posts.
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After Edzel it becomes a typical UK farming landscape with fields of green wheat and barley and the bright yellow of blooming rape. My final destination was St Cyrus and the route was along country lanes. One fellow clipping his hedge said ‘you’ll be the first today!’ – as if he and other locals follow
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Tarfside, just a few miles away, is famous for a TGO welcome with bacon rolls and cups of tea.I scimped on my camp breakfast and started walking soon after 7. A little down the valley with sun streaming down I caught a vision of a girl standing up in the heather next to her brightly
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The cacophony from birds was rather special in this area. Through the night a cuckoo called continuously. Occassionally an owl. And at dawn as the cuckoo stopped a hundred other birds took over. I started off early and soon caught up Charles and Brian, senior TGOers who stayed in the right place – a bothey
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The weather had set fair so the night spent at the top of the Geldie burn was cold but not threatening. My plan for last night was Mar lodge down in the valley. I got there about 11 this morning after the last TGOers that stayed over had left. Its nice to see signs specifically
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