[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/next-time-youre-in-skye-mini-mtb-track-pics ]This thread[/url] may interest you for your next trip didmatt.
I live in a grim part of Scotland but have easy access to places like this:
Skye:
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CMD Arete - Ben Nevis
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Tiree:
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Loch Leven:
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Stob Ghabhar Summit towards Ben Nevis:
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Gosh, I have so few decent photos of my own country 🙁 I really need to see more of it.
Couple of mine:
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puts finger in ears, covers eyes and shouts STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT
x2! Averaging about 3 trips a year hauling up from the South West, would leave tomorrow if I could work out how to make a living, but those pics are inspiration to keep on planning and dreaming, so thanks for that - no really. 🙂
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Went a couple of years ago with the family, in August.
It rained every day!!!!!!
Still had a great time however! 😛
If they could just tow scotland down to the south of france it would be a tropical paradise!!!
Scotland - It's a beautiful place
Certainly one of the most beautiful countries on earth- every time I go hillwalking there I always end up wondering why I left. Trouble is you can't eat scenery. That's why so many of us have to leave to make a living.
It's such a shame that the weather is SO BAD though. On a 10 day camping trip to The Highlands and Skye in August, it rained every single day.
A relative of mine lives in Stirling and the weather seems a lot worse (wetter and greyer) than it does in Manchester.
I have had some fantastic days climbing the rock and the ice, but the weather does seem to be generally terrible for human outdoor enjoyment.
Average annual rainfall in Stirling and Manchester is the same at 75-100 cm per year.
[i]Trouble is you can't eat scenery.[/i]
why would you want to eat scenery when there's so much cholesterol available up there? It's the national dish 😉
Average annual rainfall in Stirling and Manchester is the same at 75-100 cm per year.
Annual rainfall doesn't tell the whole story.
It seems more 'dreek' in Stirling (and the Highlands).
:'(
I want to go back up there...
Epic steve you are nearly right, but your motorbike road is nowhere as nice as mine (willy waving).
It is a jaw droppingly beautiful place. I love it.
I used to go climbing and walking for a week every Easter around Glen Coe, not been for probably 19 years. All my old pics are prints unfortunately.
>I have had some fantastic days climbing the rock and the ice, but the weather does seem to be generally terrible for human outdoor enjoyment.<
You've not been reading Samuel Johnson have you? 😉
The weathers not all bad - Tiree for example gets more hours of sunshine than anywhere else in the UK. Went there for 15+ years on the bounce and only had one really bad week to speak of
It's dreich - as in Loch
No such thing as bad weather... just bad clothing
Epic steve you are nearly right, but your motorbike road is nowhere as nice as mine (willy waving).
Lets see it then!
The bit I posted has lots going for it - no traffic, no police, great scenery, good road surface etc., some great corners.
I came to work on the motorbike today and would love to just point it north and head up there.
Proof positive! (about 10 mls further west from your pic steve)
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Oh well - if its turned into a photo thread 🙂
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Proof positive! (about 10 mls further west from your pic steve)
I'm pretty sure I've taken photo's from that spot or somewhere very nearby.
[i]would leave tomorrow if I could work out how to make a living[/i]
What do you do that you couldn't do up here? I'm not taking the mickey, it's an honest question.
Oh, and another photo, this time from the campsite at Applecross.
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All of these photos are getting me REALLY excited 😀
I don't really care about the rough parts of Scotland, I'm not going to be going there!!
OK - photos are good.
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Love it, may we please have locations as well please!
I would give my right arm to move up to Scotland (not city though, although i was born in Glasgow), lived in England since a year or so old, as has most of my relatives now.
Going on hols next year to Tulloch Farm just down the road from Roybridge, fantastic part of the world, i may even sneak my bike onto the car without her knowing and have a cheeky run at Nevis Range or over at Laggan....shooosh.
The only thing stopping me uproot my family is work, if i could find something similar to what i do , i would be there like a shot.
Ardrossanshudder...that's worse than Sheffield!
I'll see your Ardrossan and raise you a Slough, or a Hounslow...
Airdrie / coatbridge
I'm going for the nuclear option - double strike - sighthill - both glasgow & edinburgh options.
duckman : My photos,
1st was taken looking back on Kinnlochleven with the Pap of Glencoe in the disance, taken somewhere on the west highland way. [url= http://www.multimap.com/s/PcBd1UTm ]multimap link[/url]
2nd was taken on the Isle of Skye, just below the old man of Storr which is in the north east of the island between Portree and Staffin. [url= http://www.multimap.com/s/Na6U3VQC ]Multimap link[/url]
Skinflats.
I rest my case (whatever it was).
Duckman, my photos are:
1) Nevis Range at Relentless 24 2008
2) Beach near Applecross
3) Fisherfield Hills, looking to An Teallach
4) Arisaig looking to Eigg and Rhum
5) Swindon ;o)
the photos don't tell the whole story - taken under rare climatic conditions
shite weather most of the year round, and bastard midges
Some great pics in this thread. Mine was taken from near Stein on Skye btw - looking out towards Uist.
kennyp - no worries, I need people to keep asking me that. I'm a consultant I work in sustainable development, currently mostly in environmental planning at a strategic level, but have previously working in public and academic sector on various environmental management/ assessement, corporate social responsibiity/ strategy stuff. Have been researching for some time possibilities in the highlands, just haven't quite figured out what/where and how I can blend that with the other stuff that I actually really want to do - build/ renovate own home, get a bit of land.. you know dreamy stuff... 🙂
If it didn't rain it would not be so green and lush - and if it wasn't for the midges it would be overpopulated.
Dundee
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My wife got her handbag nicked in the town centre and I got myself a kicking when I was up at a football match a couple of years back.
Handbag nicked - look after your handbag in every city centre.
Got a kicking - well done. I held a season ticket at Tannadice for a few years and never saw any violence off the pitch, apart from what looked like 2 gays having a bitch fight after a derby.
In fact, one for the footy supporters (and for thiose who aren't possibly the street you'd least like to live in)..
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One from today.
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One from a wee while ago
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Im one of the lucky one's (who certainly does not appreciate it) who live's in a pretty remote area of Scotland(argyll),my job involve's alot of travelling around the west highland's including - Gigha, Colonsay, Islay, Jura, Mull, Coll and Tiree, i take it for granted and most of the time i dont even see the scenery 😐
My photo's are not in the same standard of other stunner's in the thread 8) but here is a couple..
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RobGarroch - your homestead is the most scenic place in the country IMHO 8) we went up there in April and stayed in the wigwam's at sand's for a couple of night's and it was fantastic, even the wigwam's! 😆
http://www.sandsholidaycentre.co.uk/wigwams.html
Taken on the ride in this morning. Great temperature inversion - was in and out of deep fog and crystal clear, from -3 at home to something like +3 in the fog...
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(L-R Meall Corranaich, Coire Odhar, Bheinn Glas, Ben Lawers. Coire Odhar used to be quite a big ski area/base of the Scottish Ski Touring Club/full of snow from November to March reliably...)
And the weather doesn't have to be good -
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I like this one, even though it's non-natural (could make a cracking trail round this place...)
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Love that last one Rob.
Gallery of Modern Art?
No wait - green fields beyond so probably not in the centre of Edinburgh.
Stuartie - it's the [url= http://www.jupiterartland.org/the_works/the_artists/charles_jencks/?phpMyAdmin=2e1b16576dc42e922ee48b910b182245 ]Jupiter Artland[/url] installation in, believe it or not, Wilkieston ('twixt Embra & Livingstone). It was open to public during the Festival, only heard about it on the Culture Show & went round on the last day. I think it's open periodically through the year, well worth a visit.
