Help me indentify a Loch/Area
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By the looks of the chaps harvest on his blog there wouldn't be much left anyway, im sure if you go to tesco and fill your trolley with the equivalent in your standard issue fungus it would attract some disapproving looks... probably for the best that the actual location is a mystery to give what's left (if any) a chance to regrow.
Steve
Steve
When you think that you have a good sense of the lay of the land and the shape of the shoreline,
just use Google Earth to find the place.
Without hiking for miles and miles and miles, I use Google Earth to figure out
where some of the local and abandoned logging roads go to.
I had no trouble finding a northern Canadian camp that I lived in for the summer of '64.
Found the railroad tracks and moved north!
just use Google Earth to find the place.
Without hiking for miles and miles and miles, I use Google Earth to figure out
where some of the local and abandoned logging roads go to.
I had no trouble finding a northern Canadian camp that I lived in for the summer of '64.
Found the railroad tracks and moved north!
I wasn't being serious (and I know you followed my intent)
There are some good suggestions on this thread however I thought I knew the west coast pretty well but can't pin that view down definitively.
No, from the three main clues,
1. Quite a big fresh water loch.
2. Near a road judging by the three visible telephone poles on the left.
3. Red-ish rock band on the hill although that could just be the light, would suggest Torridon or if it is just a trick of the light possibly the lime stone of assynt/far northwest. Either way the rock band looks sedimentary in nature.
So it's not round this part of the world as we don't have that type of loch/road set up here and the rock type looks wrong.
Further speculation on my part orientates the loch running SW to NE, the tent is parked on the SW end (less evidence of wave wash on that shore, and if it is scotland there'd be more evidence of wave action if it were to the north or north east end) I think the photo looks to have been taken in the morning which puts that road on the left of the photo to the north of the loch.
So I'll go for a road side location in Torridon or NW Sutherland.
There's some pretty good contour info on that mountain. Theres also his other images with mountains in the distance. Looks like you need to trawl the os maps playing spot the contours.
It looks like one of the Inverpolly lochs. I'd plumb for Loch an Doire Dhubh NC137 104. I paddled these a couple of years ago. The hill on the left looks like Stac Pollaidh which would add up due to the contour but the cloud cover makes it a wee bit hard.
Hope this helps
Windy
Hope this helps
Windy
As above from Filterhoose but I think it's the "road" side.
It's the corbett Cul Beag, next to Stac Pollaidh from Loch Lurgainn east shore...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x488e3060cd42f46f:0x26d0d025a12fbf15
It's the corbett Cul Beag, next to Stac Pollaidh from Loch Lurgainn east shore...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x488e3060cd42f46f:0x26d0d025a12fbf15
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Ha ha....What a find Sir....I doff my cap to you. some nice sleuthing right there. :You_Rock_
Here a pic of corbett Cul Beag you mentioned and the OP for comparison..Perfect match.
Mystery Mountain
corbett Cul Beag
Mystery Mountain
corbett Cul Beag
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I guess Credit should go to yourself, saw your post last. Well Done...Now where do i post the Coconut/Goldfish.. :You_Rock_
