tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18722527.post447727372499093933..comments2024-02-15T12:43:02.744+01:00Comments on That Hideous Man: Scotland in the Spring: The Cairngorms, Braeriach and The Lairig GhruThat Hideous Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12076125326851070568noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18722527.post-43339062991880119932008-06-20T03:20:00.000+02:002008-06-20T03:20:00.000+02:00Found your blog via AD's site. A revelation (sic)...Found your blog via <A HREF="http://annedroid-annedroid.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">AD's site</A>. A revelation (sic). <BR/>Your mountain pix are smashin'. Love the latest Trossach posts.<BR/><BR/>I recall walking through the Lairig in the late 70's north to south being stripped to the waist and consequently eaten alive by midges at Rothiemurchus and drowned by the rain by the time I got to the Linn. The vagaries of a Scot's summer!<BR/><BR/>The walk was illuminated by our friend and Gaelic speaking guide, local to Rothiemurchus, who regaled us with the story about <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Point" REL="nofollow">one of the western peaks</A>.<BR/><BR/>Will link you.McNoddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10433976270647799322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18722527.post-16438097379328584202008-05-28T09:46:00.000+02:002008-05-28T09:46:00.000+02:00Whereas when I was a kid, my Geographical father (...Whereas when I was a kid, my Geographical father (F.R.G.S!) made every holiday a field trip...<BR/><BR/>We travelled up dips and down scarps, prodded rocks, examined bedding planes, watched rivers meandering accross their flood planes, waterfalls retreating upstream carving gorges and spotted unusual land-use patterns.<BR/><BR/>Other kids were cruelly made to go to Butlins.That Hideous Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12076125326851070568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18722527.post-48539685338826094502008-05-28T00:45:00.000+02:002008-05-28T00:45:00.000+02:00Gorgeous photos.I took school parties up Aonach Mh...Gorgeous photos.<BR/><BR/>I took school parties up Aonach Mhor several times as preparation for "H" Geography and I was always shocked at how many pupils (i.e. nearly all of them) had never been out of the city. It was a school in a mixed catchment area i.e. they weren't all puir wee souls who had never been on holiday. On the contrary, they had been to Magaluf and Benidorm etc but never any further north than Maryhill.<BR/><BR/>And yet they had been learning about ice and water as processes of erosion and deposition for two years, in their Standard Grade course. How can you do this without seeing it? How can you appreciate landforms and contours on a map without even being out there even once?<BR/><BR/>Ooooh, getting frustrated all over again!lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13386263352332136809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18722527.post-4900141700826069652008-05-27T10:22:00.000+02:002008-05-27T10:22:00.000+02:00Larry who?Larry who?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com