Highlands

[sun.and.rain]

theboyfold said:

Back at the Drovers. Thanks for the help in planning two epic days of driving. Skye is unreal!

Sssh, keep it quiet. (Been going there for over 30yrs. Even got married there).

[theboyfold]

sun.and.rain said:

theboyfold said:

Back at the Drovers. Thanks for the help in planning two epic days of driving. Skye is unreal!

Sssh, keep it quiet. (Been going there for over 30yrs. Even got married there).

I mean unreal in terms of how bad the traffic is and how rubbish the roads are.

[sun.and.rain]

theboyfold said:

sun.and.rain said:

theboyfold said:

Back at the Drovers. Thanks for the help in planning two epic days of driving. Skye is unreal!

Sssh, keep it quiet. (Been going there for over 30yrs. Even got married there).

I mean unreal in terms of how bad the traffic is and how rubbish the roads are.

Absolutely. And the scenery is a bit poop. All those mountains. The views from the Cuillin ridges? Well I suppose they might be a bit good, but it takes a good measure of Talisker (and some more) to compensate and bring out the sun. The road from Portree to Flodigarry is most definitely not worth visiting. Don't go there. Stay away.

Nothing to see here, please move along.

Edited by sun.and.rain on Saturday 26th September 18:24

[1560]

smelly sheep

[GetCarter]

markmullen said:

One for you Steve and anyone else venturing up to Torridon at the moment, missing runner.

Click to make bigger

Sad to report they found his body on Liathach late last night. Massive man hunt. I counted 15 emergency vehicles and a chopper.

Edited by GetCarter on Sunday 27th September 18:10

[Boshly]

1560 said:

we had good fun

What happened to dinner in Malvern, phone calls and the GT4??

You have some explaining to do

Glad you had fun

[1560]

sadly
we had to cancel Wales/Malvern/contacting the Aero-friends
work-related stuff

[Kieranv]

Here's an easy location from a wee trip on Thursday/Friday/Saturday.

[Hooli]

A Trabant on Scottish hills? good effort!

[bananachips]

If you haven't heard yet EVO are doing their COTY on the 500, keep your eyes peeled!

[sjabrown]

The weather has been stunning this week.
Photos below all taken from the B863 Kinlochring N side today (apart from the sunset which is from the N Ballachulish junction).

[MX5_Nutter]

Fantastic photos 2 days to go then I will be blasting around in my MX5 up there, hope we get weather as good as its been this week!

[GetCarter]

The road down Glen Torridon this morning:

Edited by GetCarter on Thursday 1st October 15:18

[JM]

(over-exposed) *Alps this morning.

• Arrocher Alps

[DirrieMore]

JM said:

(over-exposed) *Alps this morning.

• Arrocher Alps

Cobblers!

[birky]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-is...

GPS to be jammed in Scotland during Nato war games. Jammers will be in place at Faraid Head at Durness and Loch Ewe. This month's exercise will be held from 5 to 16 October.
It only mentions GPS and outdoor pursuits, not sure the effect on satnavs.

Edited by birky on Friday 2nd October 11:24

[coppice]

If you need a sat nav in Northern Highlands then you possibly have short term memory issues - on account of there only being about half a dozen roads.

The military exercises at Cape Wrath can be quite something - salvos of shells (live ones ) from ships miles off shore , planes firing rockets etc. I was once up there and encountered the US Navy moored up in Loch Eriboll - ships everywhere , helicopters etc

[Blown2CV]

tbh sounds fun to me, lots of explosions and reverting to paper maps... will be like mid nuclear war. Anyone got a mad max ford falcon?

[GetCarter]

Looking down onto part of the Bealach this morning:

[pb450]

Awesome! Is that your white car in the picture?