Highlands

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GetCarter

29,380 posts

279 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Have a Highland Road... that'll get us back on track


theboyfold

10,921 posts

226 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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GetCarter said:
Have a Highland Road... that'll get us back on track

Nice!

MX5_Nutter

1,487 posts

107 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Just read this from start to finish and has really got me excited to be visiting next week for 7 nights. Staying in Lairg so fairly central to all the good west coastal roads smile

GetCarter

29,380 posts

279 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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MX5_Nutter said:
Just read this from start to finish and has really got me excited to be visiting next week for 7 nights. Staying in Lairg so fairly central to all the good west coastal roads smile
There should be some sort of medal to be awarded to someone who read a long whole thread, combined with a first post!

MX5_Nutter

1,487 posts

107 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Parts of it was painful I must admit laugh

towser

920 posts

211 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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GetCarter said:
MX5_Nutter said:
Just read this from start to finish and has really got me excited to be visiting next week for 7 nights. Staying in Lairg so fairly central to all the good west coastal roads smile
There should be some sort of medal to be awarded to someone who read a long whole thread, combined with a first post!
Some sort of medal for staying in Lairg too :-)

Red Devil

13,060 posts

208 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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theboyfold said:
GetCarter said:
Have a Highland Road... that'll get us back on track

Nice!
yes - https://goo.gl/maps/c2QfwzAq1x42
The weather was just like in GC's pic when I was there earlier this year.
Not cloud in the sky. Deserted open road. Perfect. smile

Djdan

570 posts

148 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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pb450 said:
Just googled it. Djdan did it in a Tuscan S (Yay!) back in August and has written a brilliant piece on the General Gassing page. Worth a read. Oh, so many plans to make.... drivingcloud9
Woo someone reads my work wink

theboyfold

10,921 posts

226 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Red Devil said:
yes - https://goo.gl/maps/c2QfwzAq1x42
The weather was just like in GC's pic when I was there earlier this year.
Not cloud in the sky. Deserted open road. Perfect. smile
Yeah, the weather, could you do something about that please? We are due to leave today and it's forecast as 72 hours of rain...

Hooli

32,278 posts

200 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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towser said:
GetCarter said:
MX5_Nutter said:
Just read this from start to finish and has really got me excited to be visiting next week for 7 nights. Staying in Lairg so fairly central to all the good west coastal roads smile
There should be some sort of medal to be awarded to someone who read a long whole thread, combined with a first post!
Some sort of medal for staying in Lairg too :-)
laugh

I've camped there a few times. The family who run the site are somewhat special, but friendly enough. I seem to recall the bloke running the local shop was from darn sarf & had retired up there.

Who me ?

7,455 posts

212 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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Ffffaster said:
Your "opponent"? You might be taking this too seriously. Get a grip man. Sad that PH always descends into this unwarranted behaviour that would never happen if people were face to face.
I'd read past replies as "In the spirit of friendly debate,wavey",not as above.
I was replying in that vein. My original question on part of the A 861 ( Ardgour- Strontian section), about a section of the road circa 1966/67 where the surface was cart track and known as Red Rocks seems ( as in true PH fashion) to have gone that O/T, that I may as well have been asking about a track on the moon.

theboyfold

10,921 posts

226 months

Thursday 24th September 2015
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Bloody hell it's been wet today. Off for a beer in Ullapool now. Much needed after a long day on the road.

markmullen

15,877 posts

234 months

Friday 25th September 2015
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One for you Steve and anyone else venturing up to Torridon at the moment, missing runner.

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sjabrown

1,916 posts

160 months

Friday 25th September 2015
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markmullen said:
One for you Steve and anyone else venturing up to Torridon at the moment, missing runner.

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Alex used to run with my dad. Fingers crossed he'll be found safe.

GetCarter

29,380 posts

279 months

Friday 25th September 2015
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Choppers have been circling Beinn Alligin this afternoon. Fingers crossed.

1560

185 posts

198 months

Friday 25th September 2015
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we had good fun
although leaving the office (Brussels) was with a little delay
so I missed the boat
and had to take the chunnel in the evening
drove most of the night
snake road around midnight
and kirtstone pass in the morning
slept in the Spyder for 4hours once and 2,5hours a bit later in the night
(bucketseats are not my favorite bed...)

we did most of it
was my second time will skip Applecross next time
and stay a second night in Lochinver

classic locations, more pics to follow


theboyfold

10,921 posts

226 months

Friday 25th September 2015
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Back at the Drovers. Thanks for the help in planning two epic days of driving. Skye is unreal!

pb450

1,303 posts

160 months

Friday 25th September 2015
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Stunning!

1560

185 posts

198 months

Saturday 26th September 2015
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that says it all imho:


pb450

1,303 posts

160 months

Saturday 26th September 2015
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Djdan said:
Woo someone reads my work wink
Good write-up sir. And after all, you are famous! smile Right car too. thumbup