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BrotherMouzone said:
I saw you on Monday. I was in a group of three; my red Integra, my mates' grey M3 CSL and orange Exige. Not sure if we spotted us but we were going the opposite direction. I spotted the lack of number plate too! 
We found the road service to be very good but then again it was our first Highlands trip.
I'll post some of my pics later.
I think we passed each other by a very slow corner - me in my white Audi S4 Avant by my house... oppossite ShieldaigWe found the road service to be very good but then again it was our first Highlands trip.
I'll post some of my pics later.
GetCarter said:
I think we passed each other by a very slow corner - me in my white Audi S4 Avant by my house... oppossite Shieldaig
Oh really? 
That would have been on Sunday. I took quite a few pics and many locations we visited were inspired by your posts! So thank you!Wanted to visit Glencoe to take a James Bond pic on Monday but roads were shut due to an accident. We did visit Kinlochring though.
We were really lucky with the weather....had three glorious days.
BrotherMouzone said:
Slippydiff said:
Oh, and apparently my front number plate has fallen off (again)
We found the road service to be very good but then again it was our first Highlands trip.
I'll post some of my pics later.
Red Devil you're good, in fact you're so good you're a borderline freak
Do you have a photographic memory ?
Agreed, the weather has been superb (is this normal for this time of year Get Garter ?)
1.30 this afternoon, the car was indicating 23.5 degrees when i got back to it :
I went back to the scene of my 2011 accident this morning. It's good to have laid the whole episode to rest so's to speak. A brief nosey round found other car parts, some clearly SEAT, and others undefined. When I met up with the recovery driver the day after the accident, he said I wasn't the first to have exited the road there, seemingly others have done so since
Here's hoping they're ok.
As a footnote, I drove around the same fast kink today in daylight, in the dry, without trying/with ease at 56mph (the long, long sweeping corner before the short straight leading to the fast kink is as I thought posted at 30mph .....) So my estimate of 70-80mph when I exited the fast kink that fateful evening, looks to be pretty accurate.
1.30 this afternoon, the car was indicating 23.5 degrees when i got back to it :
I went back to the scene of my 2011 accident this morning. It's good to have laid the whole episode to rest so's to speak. A brief nosey round found other car parts, some clearly SEAT, and others undefined. When I met up with the recovery driver the day after the accident, he said I wasn't the first to have exited the road there, seemingly others have done so since
Here's hoping they're ok.As a footnote, I drove around the same fast kink today in daylight, in the dry, without trying/with ease at 56mph (the long, long sweeping corner before the short straight leading to the fast kink is as I thought posted at 30mph .....) So my estimate of 70-80mph when I exited the fast kink that fateful evening, looks to be pretty accurate.
Edited by Slippydiff on Wednesday 17th September 22:38
Slippydiff said:
HELP ! ! !
Heading up to The Highlands on Saturday. The last time I sampled the delights of Applecross etc was back in 2011.
I took loads of images on the tour, but have no idea where a lot of the images were taken
I'd like to revisit some of the roads so could do with your collective help in identifying the locations please .....
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Crikey, I used to live just beyond the furthest visible expanse of water in that picture! Heading up to The Highlands on Saturday. The last time I sampled the delights of Applecross etc was back in 2011.
I took loads of images on the tour, but have no idea where a lot of the images were taken
I'd like to revisit some of the roads so could do with your collective help in identifying the locations please .....
4.
Slippydiff said:
Red Devil you're good, in fact you're so good you're a borderline freak
Why, thank you, kind sir! 
Slippydiff said:
Do you have a photographic memory ?
Sort of. The explanation is that I used to be a night road rally navigator for several years in the good old days before such events were banished to the forests. Over time I developed the ability of being able to recognise key features of a road I had only traversed once before in pitch darkness (except for what was illuminated by the headlights/spotlights). It proved quite handy when I progressed to the right hand seat.
The vast majority of my Highland trips take place in daylight so the surrounding topography registers pretty easily. Most of the pics posted on here tend to be in locations which aren't too difficult to guess. Especially if they feature a prominent mountain in the background!
I enjoy the challenge of being able to find the spot. Even if I hadn't recognised An Teallach there were clues that it wasn't anywhere near Strath Naver or Halladale.
- too much grass at the side of the road
- road too wide with centre white line, edge markings, and snow posts
- wrong geology (of the mountains in the background)
- all the other pictures were around Torridon and points west/south
On that basis it was a matter of using logic rather than specific knowledge:
I deduced that they were most likely to be in chronological order.
So I worked backwards in true Sherlock Holmes fashion.
My first extrapolation was that you were heading south from Ullapool.
That meant the road had to be the A835 or the the A832. I was certain it couldn't be the former.
It doesn't have any snow posts between Ullapool and Breamore Junction plus the vista is far too wide and open.
So all that would be necessary would be to 'drive' the A832 west from Breamore Junction on Google Streetview.
"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth"
The Sign of Four - Ch 1 p92
"Elementary" said he.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Crooked Man
But knowing the mountain and the road I already had a very good idea where to look anyway.
The Loch Carron one was fun as the railway and the road parallel each other for some distance.
'... and so to bed'
Samuel Pepys Dairy - January 1st 1668
Red Devil said:
Slippydiff said:
Red Devil you're good, in fact you're so good you're a borderline freak
Why, thank you, kind sir! Slippydiff said:
Do you have a photographic memory ?
Sort of. The explanation is that I used to be a night road rally navigator for several years in the good old days before such events were banished to the forests. Over time I developed the ability of being able to recognise key features of a road I had only traversed once before in pitch darkness (except for what was illuminated by the headlights/spotlights). It proved quite handy when I progressed to the right hand seat.
The vast majority of my Highland trips take place in daylight so the surrounding topography registers pretty easily. Most of the pics posted on here tend to be in locations which aren't too difficult to guess. Especially if they feature a prominent mountain in the background!
I enjoy the challenge of being able to find the spot. Even if I hadn't recognised An Teallach there were clues that it wasn't anywhere near Strath Naver or Halladale.
- too much grass at the side of the road
- road too wide with centre white line, edge markings, and snow posts
- wrong geology (of the mountains in the background)
- all the other pictures were around Torridon and points west/south
On that basis it was a matter of using logic rather than specific knowledge:
I deduced that they were most likely to be in chronological order.
So I worked backwards in true Sherlock Holmes fashion.
My first extrapolation was that you were heading south from Ullapool.
That meant the road had to be the A835 or the the A832. I was certain it couldn't be the former.
It doesn't have any snow posts between Ullapool and Breamore Junction plus the vista is far too wide and open.
So all that would be necessary would be to 'drive' the A832 west from Breamore Junction on Google Streetview.
"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth"
The Sign of Four - Ch 1 p92
"Elementary" said he.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Crooked Man
But knowing the mountain and the road I already had a very good idea where to look anyway.
The Loch Carron one was fun as the railway and the road parallel each other for some distance.
'... and so to bed'
Samuel Pepys Dairy - January 1st 1668
I entered two events and crashed on both of them whilst setting competitive selective times
The first time when we caught a rather a quick Mk2 2 litre pinto'ed Escort with all the bells and whistles (we were in a 2.0 Opel Manta SR coupe), stock apart from a set of Group A springs, some Bilsteins and a Weber carb conversion.Having taken a minute out of the Escort (or possibly two ?), we caught up with him, at which point I stopped listening to my navigators notes and started to drive on sight .......... Exit stage (selective) right over brow, whilst he went left over said brow. Out with a punctured radiator less than 5 miles from the end of a 120 mile event
The second event saw us exit the rally on the same stretch of ice as Les Weaver had in his borrowed massively modified Mk2 Escort. We were in a 1.2 L Nova I'd just reshelled ......
Sorry, very off topic. Back home now after 1800 miles in 5 days
It's a shame about the condition of the road surfaces, but nothing can change the overall experience, nor the views/scenery. I'm going to invest in a new camera as the Samsung I bought to replace my beloved Sony a couple of years ago, is utterly cr*p.Interesting reading people's views on the Applecross loop. I should love it, it's everything that a challenging road should be, but age has taken it's toll (on me) and I found the combination of a single track road, blind crests and corners, a logging truck
and numerous motorists cutting corners/passing places 
made it a thoroughly unpleasant drive.Stunning views though. I said the following in a text to my business partner after driving it "The only way (for me) it would be a good driving road would be to cone each end off and put marshalls at both ends and on every junction. Then drive it in this" :
I look forward to another visit to the Highlands next year, albeit with the GT3 running something more bespoke in the suspension department (along with raised ride heights and sensible cambers angles).
Still amazed at the weather up there over the past few days !
Edited by Slippydiff on Thursday 18th September 23:00
Slippydiff said:
Ah, road rallying, what sorts the men from the boys. I went to quite a few MN events in the late eighties (just as Gwyndaf Evans was making the transition from road rallying to stage rallying with the continued support of Peter Maiden).
My time was quite a bit earlier. The likes of Chris Sclater, Will Sparow, Russell Brookes, Andy Dawson, John Taylor, Tony Fowkes etc. Rallies such as the Cilwendig and the Gremlin although most of my competing was done in lower tier regional championships such as ASEMC etc. My last car was a BDA engined Mk 1 Mexico. Can't beat the noise of twin sidedraught carbs. The induction roar was louder than the exhaust!Slippydiff said:
Interesting reading people's views on the Applecross loop. I should love it, it's everything that a challenging road should be, but age has taken it's toll (on me) and I found the combination of a single track road, blind crests and corners, a logging truck and numerous motorists cutting corners/passing places made it a thoroughly unpleasant drive.Stunning views though.
I look forward to another visit to the Highlands next year, albeit with the GT3 running something more bespoke in the suspension department (along with raised ride heights and sensible cambers angles).
Still amazed at the weather up there over the past few days !
You're going at the wrong time of year. Try April and do the loop clockwise (as recommended by GetCarter). I can't remember the last time I saw a car coming the other way on the coast road to Shieldaig in the spring. The few non locals who do get as far as the Applecross Inn seem to go over the Bealach and return the same way. and numerous motorists cutting corners/passing places made it a thoroughly unpleasant drive.Stunning views though.I look forward to another visit to the Highlands next year, albeit with the GT3 running something more bespoke in the suspension department (along with raised ride heights and sensible cambers angles).
Still amazed at the weather up there over the past few days !
Red Devil said:
My time was quite a bit earlier. The likes of Chris Sclater, Will Sparow, Russell Brookes, Andy Dawson, John Taylor, Tony Fowkes etc. Rallies such as the Cilwendig and the Gremlin although most of my competing was done in lower tier regional championships such as ASEMC etc. My last car was a BDA engined Mk 1 Mexico. Can't beat the noise of twin sidedraught carbs. The induction roar was louder than the exhaust!
You have no idea how young that makes me feel ! !. Thankyou Slippydiff said:
Interesting reading people's views on the Applecross loop. I should love it, it's everything that a challenging road should be, but age has taken it's toll (on me) and I found the combination of a single track road, blind crests and corners, a logging truck and numerous motorists cutting corners/passing places made it a thoroughly unpleasant drive.Stunning views though.
and numerous motorists cutting corners/passing places made it a thoroughly unpleasant drive.Stunning views though.Red Devil said:
You're going at the wrong time of year. Try April and do the loop clockwise (as recommended by GetCarter). I can't remember the last time I saw a car coming the other way on the coast road to Shieldaig in the spring. The few non locals who do get as far as the Applecross Inn seem to go over the Bealach and return the same way.
Indeed, as GetCarter has said, the roads are still busy at this time of year, loads of cars, campers, coaches and motorcycles over the past five days. I suspect that even in another couple of weeks things would be quieter.Though the weather then becomes more of a lottery ?
Edited by Slippydiff on Friday 19th September 09:57
Went to the Highlands for the first time (in terms of driving trip); we were really lucky with the weather. I did 1,913 miles in the whole trip and even managed an evening track day at Knockhill.
Most of you will recognise the locations.
Rest of the pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/107270658834714731566...
Most of you will recognise the locations.
Rest of the pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/107270658834714731566...
BrotherMouzone said:
Went to the Highlands for the first time (in terms of driving trip); we were really lucky with the weather. I did 1,913 miles in the whole trip and even managed an evening track day at Knockhill.
Most of you will recognise the locations.
Rest of the pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/107270658834714731566...
Looks like you had a great trip, nice selection of cars too. Your Integra is pretty much identical to mine! Most of you will recognise the locations.
Rest of the pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/107270658834714731566...
All easy peasy. Finding the correct layby for numbers 2 & 3 took longest. Can somebody please tell me where I took this? I know it's somewhere around Applecross/Shieldaig but that's as far as I've managed to get. Too many views and too many miles that day. 
Untitled by squiffy1308, on Flickr
Untitled by squiffy1308, on FlickrNope - nowhere near Applecross or Shieldaig. You're adrift by about 100 miles!
That's looking looking south from the viewpoint here.
The bridge at Kylesku is off to the right but hidden from view by the topography.
Recognised it straightaway. A couple of stand-out clues in your pic:
- The power line pole nearest the camera
- This road sign near the left hand edge.
That's looking looking south from the viewpoint here.
The bridge at Kylesku is off to the right but hidden from view by the topography.
Recognised it straightaway. A couple of stand-out clues in your pic:
- The power line pole nearest the camera
- This road sign near the left hand edge.
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