by Jaxter » Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:26 pm
by gld73 » Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:24 pm
by malky_c » Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:29 pm
gld73 wrote:My god, why on earth would you want to spoil a perfectly nice day of cycling and cake with a detour to the Mount Eagle summit trig?!? ...
by PeteR » Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:49 pm
by Jaxter » Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:45 pm
PeteR wrote:Some say there's no such thing as a bad hill........ they've clearly never been to Mount Eagle then Such a grand name for such a gorse covered b*gger.......And I certainly wouldn't head for the summit in shorts either
by Mal Grey » Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:04 pm
by Sgurr » Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:48 pm
by Jaxter » Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:20 am
Mal Grey wrote:OK, I give in. I'm going to stop trying to understand the term "Why the...?" (Actually I heartily approve of such madness, as its arguably still saner than carrying a canoe across the moors of Assynt).
Sgurr wrote:Obviously a very tricky bike route. We met a lady waiting near Mount Eagle for husband to discover he had taken the car keys, as she was supposed to pick him up on the way back to Alness. We left her with some cereal bars just in case, and drove after him for her, but he had vanished. The gorse was quite tolerable then.
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