Loch Achray Meet 18-21 September

[scrogger]

Well I have just got a right old :twak: of my good lady for wrecking the house packing.

What is about packing when your going in car!! I feel like I have just packed for an Everest expedition!!!

Rich it was an estate you have was'nt it?

And why is it when you want Naan bread you never have any in.

Looking forward to meeting all of you over the weekend.

Andy

 

[lostagain]

Night shifts this weekend while you're all sat around the fire

Hope y'all have good weather and a few beers take some pictures. Hopefully I'll see you at the next one. :sadwavey:

 

[stooboy]

sounds like this could be an adventure to find, i once got lost in the queen elezibeth forest before looking for a farm a mate was working at, spent about 1hr driving the foresty tracks, until finaly i found a bit of land 1mx1m square that i could get a mobile signal on to find out where to go!! seems like there is an open day at the slate mine up there tommorow although recomends booking, http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/...sitorCentreDoorsOpenDayAberfoyleSlateQuarries

i be leaving shortly hopefully be there 2-3pm

 

[MagiKelly]

My plans have now changed so it will be Sunday when I am there now.

 

[stooboy]

Thanks to Ian and John and others for organizing, and others that brought the communal toys, canoes, kettles, fire grills, Wood, tablet, music and entertainment to name a few

some photos from the weekend.

Plenty of cooking going on:

No Shortage of wood, thanks to goatboy and belizibub

We used for bushcraft jenga

Then advanced Jenga...

Mission control

Everyone was making new friends

And Re-acquainting old

Scrogger digging out his 15th calzoni

The weather held out and no MIDGIES!!??

 

[belzeebob23]

It was good to meet up with peeps again and put faces to other peeps for the first time.

Waking up to a view like this can't be bad.

and this

what more can you say than THANKS

Scott

 

[scrogger]

The weekend was excellent.

Great company, great site, great weather, great music(cheers Duncan) , great fishing (well nearly it was anyway) Great whisky, Great tablet !!! (cheers Toddy)thanks for use of boats and rods etc.

First night in a hammock and after the initial wresting matched and manic laughing I really enjoyed it.

Got some pics but battery dead at mo and cannot fine the charger.

Cheers to Shewie for the hammock tuition and the very kind lift your a gent.

All in all a great weekend and well worth the trip, thanks for sorting it out Ian.

great to meet you all folks look forward to the next one.

Andy

 

[andybysea]

Here's a few of mine,

Andy trying to re catch another monster pike!

early morning mist,

couple of the guys out on the Loch!

Good to put some faces to names, big thanks to Tony for the lift up,another thanks for hammock tuition from shewie(im another 1st timer) truly converted.
enjoyed the company and the scenery terrific couple of days.

 

[SimonM]

Thanks to Wanderinstar for arranging the meet and to all who made it a success...Some photos of the event...

Simon

 

[Shewie]

Thanks to Ian and John for getting a date booked and rallying the troops, great location, great company and a good vibe as ever.

Good to put some more names to faces again and thanks to the Scots for being such good hosts again, I hope you'll have us back.

I've a couple of pics to put up when I find my camera

 

[locum76]

Yeah cheers guys, I had a blast. I scored about a pound of branched oyster mushrooms in the woods too.

 

[gregorach]

Yeah, thanks to everyone involved for making it a great weekend. Thanks especially to all who lent me their various canoes!

It was a blast.

 

[wanderinstar]

Yes, it was a good weekend. I was really worried that midges might spoil the weekend, but there were only a few about on Friday night and that was it.
It was a long drive to get up there, but worth every minute. Fantastic site and excellent company. There was only one fly in the ointment, well 3 really. Thought it was a free camp. It was ONLY 75p a night!!!!!
Am hoping Toddy gets a site sorted for New Year, and I will be up again.

 

[Chainsaw]

was a great weekend, only sorry I didn't manage to kip over Still, one of the better commutes

Cheers all,

Alan

 

[Shewie]

As it was such a lovely day when we got there on Friday I was itching to get out on the water as soon as poss. I paddled over to the island and found a load of dead rhodie bushes which I battoned down and chucked in the boat for firewood back at camp.
I stuck one foot in the boat as usual and pushed off the island with the other foot. Nothing new there but for some reason I got a right wobble on. Possibly the stern was still caught up on the beach but I sat down and thought I'd handled it. The next thing I knew I was sideways and falling in the water, with all that nice dry firewood floating around me. I never thought a canoe would sink so fast so it's kind of taught me a few things about not falling in when conditions get tough on rough waters.

I did found out how good the exped dry bags were though. I have my camera in one of the little 1L bright green bags which was clipped on the thwart when it sank. Even though it was submerged completely for quite a while it didn't let any water in whatsoever.

Anyhows it was a great meet, I managed to get quite a bit of paddling in myself so I was quite chuffed. Even if I did have a soggy right Muck boot all weekend



A few pics of nothing in particular ...

Yes that's my swannie and two right socks drying by the fire

Stunning place to live for a few days.

Got to try out my new SOTP big tarp

Simon looking forward to a brew by the looks of it

Changeable weather on Saturday afternoon

Dunc having fun

The usual suspects

 

[scrogger]

You finally got round to mentioning your little dip.It was only a matter of time before I would have had to say something.

All we saw was a splash and then I saw rich emptying his canoe, oh for a telephoto lense.!!

Andy

 

[Peterlee_Paddler]

I really enjoyed just lounging about doing nowt in particular!
Good company and good weather. Just what I needed.
Thanks to Ian and John for letting it happen and to everone else for being there.

 

[SimonM]

Here you go Ian - the sunrise you requested...

Simon

 

[Gailainne]

It was good to meet up with peeps again and put faces to other peeps for the first time.

Waking up to a view like this can't be bad.....and this

......Scott

I think that photo is definitely worth entering in the SotP photo comp that's coming up, really lovely.

Fairly enjoyable weekend, really can't wait till my canoe arrives, cheers to Chainsaw for allowing us newbies to paddle his brand new Reflection, (that's what I'm waiting on).

Cheers

Stephen

 

[gsfgaz]

is that andy's tarp's yir using , cool set up's