Saturday, January 16, 2010

West Highland Way, Day 5: Glens, Straths, Kirks, and Lachans

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My shoe duct-taped up, we struck out into the heart of the Highlands toward Tyndrum. We have a good twelve mile walk today, the first six m...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Seventy Thousand in Forty Five Seconds

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May 31, 1970. A powerful, 7.7 Richter earthquake in central Peru killed 70,000 people. Ten thousand were killed in the town of Huaraz, cli...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

West Highland Way, Day 4: In the Footsteps of Rob Roy

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Today would be our roughest walking, 14 miles to Inverarnan beyond the northern end of the lake, over rocky outcrops, boulders, rubble, and ...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

West Highland Way, Day 3: The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

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We waited over breakfast for the rain to clear but by 8 AM we knew we were in for some heavy rain. We geared up - gaiters, ponchos, umbrella...
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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Charleston Ice

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I was visiting the better half of Pat and Kathie in Charleston this weekend. My fingers were too cold to take the usual pictures of those ...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

West Highland Way, Day 2: Clash of the Titans

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After a tasty breakfast at The Bramblewood, reviewed on TripAdvisor as "must be very close to the pinnacle of B & B's", we...
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Saturday, December 26, 2009

West Highland Way, Day 1: Not Your Best Foot Forward

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As soon as I put on my shoes I knew I had brought the wrong hiking boots. These were my old boots from a few years ago before my feet sprea...
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