If anyone wants to experience the 'rough-edged vibe' of early WHW then instead of starting in Milngavie start in ... Portavadie and do the Cowal Way to Loch Lomond. You can rejoin by walking up the west shore of Lomond or taking the ferry over to the east shore if it's running.

The Kilpatrick Braes, not a million miles away and about the same height, was frozen snow and ice but had started to thaw. Mud and slush lower down, not as frozen hard as it has been.

Great fun with microspikes.

The rule in England is "local area" and no definition is given. I agree that "county" might be a good start.

Though we can nit-pick the Scottish rules, and they do bring up some weird exceptions, at least they are clearly defined: local authority boundary plus 5 miles.

Basically; obey the law and be sensible about it too.

Boris dithered about for two months allowing the virus to take hold, we are all paying the price for that now. It's not been any better up here. Scotland let people fly off to Spain, let people legally head to Blackpool whist "advising" them morally not to. We had the legal authority to p...

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Seemingly, yes.

The rates are going up - but not due to hillwalking, so if your journey and walk are legal you can go for it.

Hilleberg are designed for harsh conditions and to last a lifetime, and they do separately sell mesh inners so with the right choices of shelter you can get those panorama. But (a) most mesh inners are sold out (b) Hilleberg tents are heavy and (c) their tents are brutally expensive. Their mesh inne...

NickyRannoch wrote:anyone travelling, for example, from Inverness to Glen Coe is taking the ****. Might be legal but morally it's no different to someone driving from Glasgow to Glen Coe in November

You're trying to "morally shame" perfectly legal behaviour that does not drive up transmission.

Hello. I'm going to post 'against' the Sea 2 Summit but before I do, because you're a new poster, I just want to say "sorry". :lol: I don't want to appear hostile. :wink: Light means different things to different people, but the short version is 780 grams and 50% bigger pack size than the ...

4. The dog question. Murphy is a very active working cocker. He will be wet by the time we camp for the evening. I have no problem bringing a towel for him, but can I ask what you all get your dogs to sleep on when you get into the tent? I don't think he would be terribly comfy on either the ground...

and Aldi ski gloves that are not much better Ski gloves are designed to keep your hands warm in extreme cold at speed, so they have to be designed to withstand the wind chill of your descent. If you're walking into very very cold winds they're great - I have ones from Lidl, superb facing icy winds ...

That's a very nice length of pipe and three plastic screw caps.

But given it'll have cost maximum 27 pence to buy it wholesale, and more likely 2.7 pence, why are they retailing it for £27??

AlexFrood wrote:I know this is an old post, but I randomly stumbled across it. out of curiosity did you beat my time?

Have a second look at the title of the topic.

In the mid 80s the fatal workplace accident rate in construction was around 10 per 100k, it's now less than 2 per 100k. General workplace fatalities in the mid 80s was 2 per 100k, it's now 0.3 per 100k. Non-fatal workplace accidents have seen similar scales of decline.' All of those declines are due...