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classic33

Leg End Member
Good afternoon :hello:
Been doing the touristy bit and taking a trip on the local Falkirk Wheel with Beag..
Up, along, around, along and down..
Interesting.
Owdo
Touristy bits! In yer own country...
There's more than one Falkirk Wheel around the country? Are they all of similar design.
Did "The Young Un" come back down with you.
Thought the wheel took you up by going round. What were this along bit you did?
 

classic33

Leg End Member
The print was more convenient by the time of costs of items and petrol there and back.
I printed a fake rock yesterday for making a geocache...
One of those old-style rubber foot pumps did a treat.
The bothy invite was something else...
The cream of Scottish climbing used it over the years,
Dry, but it was always chilly inside.
nearer the pub though....
I'd rather have that chopped pork than any other cut meat....
Off to find food..
They'll have been dearer when you printed yours as well.
Fake rock, will you be giving it a paint job so it doesn't stand out too much.
Yer lungs not used, save lugging a footpump.
Inside by invite only, and you got such an invite!
You do much climbing in yer time. Or were it a case of winging it when you were there.
Dry with very little chance of being blown away with you in it. Just the height makes them harder to warm up inside, compared to a tent.
Did the pub do a decent pint...

No food and it gone mid-day, happy hunting. However long it takes you...
 

Bobby Mhor

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They'll have been dearer when you printed yours as well.
Fake rock, will you be giving it a paint job so it doesn't stand out too much.
Yer lungs not used, save lugging a footpump.
Inside by invite only, and you got such an invite!
You do much climbing in yer time. Or were it a case of winging it when you were there.
Dry with very little chance of being blown away with you in it. Just the height makes them harder to warm up inside, compared to a tent.
Did the pub do a decent pint...

No food and it gone mid-day, happy hunting. However long it takes you...
The 'Towers' Glencoe style
Glencoe Towers.jpg

The 'En-Suite', note the soap
soap spot the.jpg

About 7 or 8 st lighter (BM)

And yes, the beer was unusual good for a hotel, an excellent pint..
We did use other hostelries through to Ballachulish, no problem thumbing if the walking gear on.
The 70s are my fave time....
Life got serious after that....
tbh the 60s were hellish.....

Many happy memories, I admit to getting emotional as we near the area, even all these years later.
I've done Curved Ridge on the big Buachaille,
a fair bit of bouldering (I have photographic proof)
I had planned some of the real stuff the following year,
The future Mrs M was adamant 'No' (there had been a few lives lost in the winter that year)
I thought better of it, tbh...

Wheely good fun with Beag earlier..
The local tourist attraction...
 

Bobby Mhor

Legendary Member
Location
Behind You
Owdo
Touristy bits! In yer own country...
There's more than one Falkirk Wheel around the country? Are they all of similar design.
Did "The Young Un" come back down with you.
Thought the wheel took you up by going round. What were this along bit you did?

You get to the top, they open the gate, and you cruise through a tunnel, then do an about turn and head back....then back down...
 

classic33

Leg End Member
The 'Towers' Glencoe style
View attachment 781655
The 'En-Suite', note the soap
View attachment 781657
About 7 or 8 st lighter (BM)
Force Ten?

See back to nature, almost.
Hair on yer head...
And yes, the beer was unusual good for a hotel, an excellent pint..
We did use other hostelries through to Ballachulish, no problem thumbing if the walking gear on.
The 70s are my fave time....
Life got serious after that....
tbh the 60s were hellish.....

Many happy memories, I admit to getting emotional as we near the area, even all these years later.
I've done Curved Ridge on the big Buachaille,
a fair bit of bouldering (I have photographic proof)
I had planned some of the real stuff the following year,
The future Mrs M was adamant 'No' (there had been a few lives lost in the winter that year)
I thought better of it, tbh...

Wheely good fun with Beag earlier..
The local tourist attraction...
You'd do it again given the chance?
Thumb a lift on the same roads, in yer walking gear.
The "swinging sixties" weren't your thing then.
Serious as in you were no longer a free man...

They can't take yer memories away from you.
I believe you on the bouldering, no photographic proof required.
"The Real Stuff" sounds like the title of a book, possibly a movie.
You probably did the right thing, albeit at someone else's request. Folk were starting to realise there was a world beyond their doorsteps, and they wanted to be out there. Sometimes ill equipped for the conditions.

The Wheel or The Beag being the local tourist attraction?
Would he go back you think?
 
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