The boot at the bottom of the path to Meall na Teanga

[AlisonFox66]

last year when climbing the Loch Lochy Munros , I noticed a boot on the boulder that marks where you turn off up the hill from the path along the Loch side

yesterday it was still there

The boot contains no limb or bone , this was thoroughly checked by the labrador with us
Does this boot symbolise something ?

I quite like it as a waymarker so I hope it stays there

[mgmt!]

i dont no why its there allison, funny thing was i had a pair of those boots, they dissapeared from my garage along with some other gear, a going away gift from my ex ! you can imagine my surprise when doing these hills in bleak winter day last year i came across THE BOOT, a feeling of de ja vue, came over me and i must admit i placed it beside my boot to check for size, was always looking over my back that day.

[magicdin]

Re the single boot
Bear with me on this one but I remember reading a post on a forum a few years ago
(Mountain Bothies Assoc forum I think)
About a bloke walking through the Lairig Ghru when the sole came off one of his boots.
A long way to walk out and a less than successful running repair.
Anyway the story goes that a few hundred yards further on he found on the top of a rock
A single boot - the exact same make - the exact same size- AND the correct foot

Don't think it was April 1st - apocryphal tale ?? - any old MBA forumites remember this ??

[takoronga]

[quote="magicdin"]

Anyway the story goes that a few hundred yards further on he found on the top of a rock
A single boot - the exact same make - the exact same size- AND the correct foot
quote]

oh, now I have the heebie jeebies : )

[Caberfeidh]

Not quite on the same scale of serendipitously-precise footwear-related ethereal giftage, but one time I went through the Lairigh Gru and, footsore and manky-of-sock, I found a nice new pair of socks, lying on top of the heather as if placed there specially. Blue, and smelling as if newly-laundered. And they fit both my feet! It's always a bonus to find some useful thing whilst out in the hills.

[magicdin]

Not quite on the same scale of serendipitously-precise footwear-related ethereal giftage, but one time I went through the Lairigh Gru and, footsore and manky-of-sock, I found a nice new pair of socks, lying on top of the heather as if placed there specially. Blue, and smelling as if newly-laundered. And they fit both my feet! It's always a bonus to find some useful thing whilst out in the hills.

And we all thought you had a peg leg

[Caberfeidh]

Not quite on the same scale of serendipitously-precise footwear-related ethereal giftage, but one time I went through the Lairigh Gru and, footsore and manky-of-sock, I found a nice new pair of socks, lying on top of the heather as if placed there specially. Blue, and smelling as if newly-laundered. And they fit both my feet! It's always a bonus to find some useful thing whilst out in the hills.

And we all thought you had a peg leg

Nonsense.I am a fifty-stone Fijian woman.

[Rekrab]

though so.