Tag Archives: Scotland

The new Glen Coe mountain route

Posted on December 5, 2009 by James

I’ve found other Google Maps mistakes before, but this one is quite fun. Now, while I’m aware Scotland contains many steep mountain passes, that are only just passable in a car I don’t quite think this is one of them.

According to this image, the A82 splits in… Continue reading

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The climbig trip that wasn't

Posted on September 25, 2005 by James

Well, Scotland is still as wet as ever. Me and Paul were planning on doing Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis. We’d planned to camp by the CIC Hut as neither of us belong to a secret cult recognised by the SMC. Gear was arranged. Vast quantities of gear – in fact so much we could have gone big wall climbing in America! A vague weather report found which indicated we’d… Continue reading

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Capsize

Posted on September 21, 2004 by James

We’ve just done a test-capsize of one of our Drascombe sailing boats. Now, a Drascombe is the same as any other sailing boat we have, it’s just a bit bigger. Due to their size they don’t tip over that often – the last one being about 10 years ago at this Centre which means they build up a reputation of being “uncapsizeable”. This means we don’t do capsize drills using… Continue reading

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One firelighter, a Zippo and some cardboard

Posted on September 20, 2004 by James

It’s amazing what you can do if you put your mind to it. This place is aparrently undergoing major restructuring and management changes. We, the trainees of this place had our little say, jiggled the place up a bit with what we said and caused a bit of a fuss. This place has all the fun politics of a big company at times.

I also managed to build a fire out… Continue reading

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Day Sailing

Posted on September 14, 2004 by James

Today I finished doing my RYA Day Sailing course. It’s rather easy… All you have to do is sail and navigate. The sailing part I can already do, the navigation part is the same as when I go hillwalking so I can already do that too Only difference is that sailing charts aren’t the same as OS maps, their gridlines don’t point to the same North. This caused me… Continue reading