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Name that Loch!

Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rohan » Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:01 pm

Grisu wrote:Again a wild guess: Loch Earn?


Not Loch Earn, more remote.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Pointless Parasite » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:03 pm

Loch Ossian?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rohan » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:43 pm

Pointless Parasite wrote:Loch Ossian?


Yes, looking roughly sw from east side. Over to you!
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Pointless Parasite » Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:51 pm

Thanks rohan. What is this frozen loch?

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby denfinella » Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:23 pm

I think that's Loch Avon in the Cairngorms?

Given where it's taken from, it must have been part of quite a long, cold day! :D
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Pointless Parasite » Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:13 pm

Yes denfinella it's Loch Avon, well done. And yes it was a cold day. So cold I walked across the frozen loch at the narrow bit opposite the Saddle.

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:12 am

Pointless Parasite wrote:Yes denfinella it's Loch Avon, well done. And yes it was a cold day. So cold I walked across the frozen loch at the narrow bit opposite the Saddle. Over to you


It looks like that loch in Game of Thrones where they fight the Army of the Dead. Did you get besieged by an army of belligerent zombies? Or maybe you were accosted by an undead polar bear? All I've been harassed by up there were rodents under the Shelter Stone. :shock:

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Pointless Parasite » Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:35 pm

Caberfeidh wrote:Did you get besieged by an army of belligerent zombies? Or maybe you were accosted by an undead polar bear?


Possibly. I can't really remember anything specific.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby matt_outandabout » Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:55 pm

Caberfeidh wrote:Did you get besieged by an army of belligerent zombies? Or maybe you were accosted by an undead polar bear?


You're mistaking this area for Aviemore high street when the Lochs and Glens buses arrive.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Fri Dec 18, 2020 6:13 pm

matt_outandabout wrote:
Caberfeidh wrote:Did you get besieged by an army of belligerent zombies? Or maybe you were accosted by an undead polar bear?


You're mistaking this area for Aviemore high street when the Lochs and Glens buses arrive.


Oh Aye... when there's a run on the shortbread-and-tartan-gonk stores... :shock:

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:44 am

denfinella wrote:I think that's Loch Avon in the Cairngorms? Given where it's taken from, it must have been part of quite a long, cold day! :D


Pointless Parasite wrote:Yes denfinella it's Loch Avon, well done. And yes it was a cold day. So cold I walked across the frozen loch at the narrow bit opposite the Saddle.
Over to you


We seem to have become sidetracked; Denfinella, it's you! :roll:
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Sun Dec 27, 2020 10:39 am

Too long, start again: Where is this loch?

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Sun Dec 27, 2020 10:47 am

Etchachan?

Assuming there really is a loch under there and you're not pretending ;) :lol:
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:27 pm

Mal Grey wrote:Etchachan?

Assuming there really is a loch under there and you're not pretending ;) :lol:


Correct :D
I sat by the loch for a while eating my sarnies and contemplating climbing in the gullies of the cliffs across the water, and I wondered why there was a big hole in the ice. I realised it was too late in the day for climbing so I set off back up the hill behind me, then saw huge bus- and house-sized blocks of ice fall from the cornice, scouring the gullies clean and making even more of a hole in the ice... It occurred to me that the wave caused by this might travel under the ice, then make the ice at the edge of the loch suddenly rear up and smack down on the shore, where a person might just sit eating his sarnies and contemplating climbing the gullies... :shock:
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:30 pm

Wow, you'd never think about under-ice tsunamis! :shock:


Right will go find a piccy.
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