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May 09 2012
Crossing Paths
Many weeks ago, during our own separate preparations, Pete and I had arranged to meet up on the section of path between Dalavil and Ord. it would be his first day walking north from Armadale and my last, heading south to the same place; a bizarre coincidence that neither of us could actually believe, but …
May 09 2012
Skye Trail Day Eight – Drumfearn to Armadale – 18 miles, 7 hours
I set out on the final day of the Skye Trail without the assistance of my brother, which was more upsetting than I thought it would be. I got to the car park at Armadale pier about 40 minutes before the bus arrived and I had some time to mooch around and take some photos, …
May 09 2012
Skye Trail Day Seven – Broadford to Drumfearn – 9 miles, 3 hours
Day seven dawned – well we assumed it dawned, we couldn’t actually see the sun and the wind was blowing a force seven at least; the waves were throwing themselves against our little beach like suicidal things. I’d heard the wind in the night, picking up from yesterday’s obviously quite tame levels. The house has …
May 09 2012
Skye Trail Day Six – Kirkibost to Broadford – 18 miles, 7.5 hours
Something strange had happened overnight. As we left the house this morning we noticed that something resembling a huge grey blanket had obscured the sun! We were both shocked and dismayed. We asked a local what it was and he called it a “clowd”. He said it like crowd, but with an “L”. Fortunately today’s …
May 07 2012
Skye Trail Day Five – Sligachan to Kirkibost – 16 miles, 7 hours
Inevitably, the start of each day now gets further and further from our base of operations and as such we have to get up earlier and set out earlier. The journey to the start point, the Sligachan Hotel took us about 40 minutes, but I was still ready to go by 07:50, setting out into …
May 06 2012
Skye Trail Day Four – Portree to Sligachan – 11 miles, 4.5 hours
After the short day of yesterday we had a whole afternoon relaxing and generally mooching around the croft, mostly waiting for 8pm and the Big Match kick off. Possibly the most important Manchester derby game this century, certainly one which would change the course of the season for one team or the other. We had …