On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:27:51 +0000,
this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of
the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>> thats just you.
>
>I don't think so. Glencoe is a great spot, but it's ruined by the cars
>whizzing through it,
I agree from the point of view of walking there (although you soon get
away from the cars). But from the point of view of the driver its
nice, (its the same as with trains). And the Highlands need
communications, although I would build a road alongside the railway
instead.
(The worst aspect of canal holidays is the often constant proximity of
mainline trains and motorways).
>and on occasion when was there, by low-flying
>idiot moron RAF jets who practise killing people there.
Well, theres a whole new can of worms.
RAF pilots are not morons or idiots IMHO.
Given we are to have defence forces they have to practice low flying.
Heres me in Wasdale:-
"http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk/harrier2.htm"
(I wouldnt argue for a pacifist state, although recent wars we have
pursued have been "idiotic" and "moronic" on the part of the
*politicians*)
Would you support police firearms officers practicing?
Like . its over in a few seconds anyway and I find it quite
exciting, even though I nearly fell off Yewbarrow when one went by
below me like this:-
"http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/pict005a.htm"
Hers another group of RAF "morons" practicing:-
"http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/22squad.htm"
>> In UK you know exactly where they end up if you have a map.
>
>There's nothing romantic about that- much as I like maps. As a kid, I
>was fascinated by those kinds of roads.
Well I suppose you can throw away the map? I find walking in cloud
romantic, even with a 1:25000 map! You seldom know exactly where you
are and its a great moment when (if) if clears. Of course it usually
doesnt.
>> >Some of my favourite train routes are the ones where roads are
>> >not immediately apparent.
>>
>> But for the people you travel past, a railway line is at least as
>> intrusive as a road, cant be used by walkers and runners or as easily
>> crossed.
>
>Most of the ones I'm thinking of are sparsely populated.
like Glencoe?
>> How many places are there railways without roads?
>
>Good question. How would you know?
I have maps. I also have general knowledge and have been on trains a
lot when I was young (I liked steam engines, still do). It was a
rhetorical question.
>> Rannock Moor the
>> rail takes a different line from the road but most places theres a
>> road somewhere. My favouorite places are where theres neither road or
>> rail.
>
>And how do you get there with your 100 kg of photographic euipment and
>birdwatching paraphernalia? :)
Well, I dont take it all at once. We stay somewhere and gear is either
there on in the boot. For a high walk I take mini binoculars and a
film camera with small non-auto lenses. For easy walks I take the
digital, which is much bigger. Telescopes and tripods are for a mile
or two from the car.
I do sometimes take my Benbow "tripod" up a hill for a planned shot,
its a total pain in the arse, the only way to carry it is across the
shoulders, half open. Now, I have a ponytail, which I could let down,
and a beard, if I walked up a popular route like that with no shirt
and the big Benbow across my shoulders, I wonder what people might
think? :-)
--
Mike Reid
Wasdale "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/page01.htm"
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