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Name that Loch!
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Re: Name that Loch!
by Caberfeidh » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:10 am
Sunset tripper wrote:Loch Dunvegan?
Correct ! It was like the ice age had come back ... well, a bit anyway.

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Re: Name that Loch!
by Sunset tripper » Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:37 pm
Cheers Caberfeidh. I remembered us talking about the frozen sea before. I walked across Oban Bay once as a kid.
Here's a photo of a lochan I took this Monday in far nicer conditions.

Here's a photo of a lochan I took this Monday in far nicer conditions.

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Re: Name that Loch!
by Caberfeidh » Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:46 am
Lochan Uaine, shoulder of Derry Cairngorm, Glen Derry?
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Re: Name that Loch!
by Sunset tripper » Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:46 am
Caberfeidh wrote:Lochan Uaine, shoulder of Derry Cairngorm, Glen Derry?
A lot smaller than that and to the west and south.
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Re: Name that Loch!
by Sunset tripper » Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:41 pm
rockhopper wrote:Is it named on the 1:50,000 ?
Just had a look and it's not named though it is shown.
Its named on the OS 1:25,000
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Re: Name that Loch!
by Sunset tripper » Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:21 pm
rockhopper wrote:Any where near the Grey Corries ?
Within 10km I would say.
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Re: Name that Loch!
by rockhopper » Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:30 pm
The rocks look rather Grey Corrie-ish. The lochan in Coire Ràth ?
Re: Name that Loch!
by Sunset tripper » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:27 am
rockhopper wrote:The rocks look rather Grey Corrie-ish. The lochan in Coire Ràth ?
West of there.
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Re: Name that Loch!
by Sunset tripper » Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:28 pm
Alteknacker wrote:Lochan Coire nam Miseach?
No not there.
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Re: Name that Loch!
by Sunset tripper » Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:29 pm
SummitStupid wrote:Lochan Coire na Ciste?
Yes that's the one. All yours.

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