August 2012
15 posts
Ate my first blackberries of the season walking to Banavie Station at 07:30 this morning, and made a decent curry last night from a big crop of edible fungi growing, ignored, on the campsite there by the Lochy. The beach I found on Mull a few weeks ago was backed by acres of fruit bushes, and the rocks at low tide were covered in whelks and limpets. Throw out a couple of fishing lines and...
Johnny Alpha
Awful weather battering my camp in old lead workings above Strontian. It’s a day in the tent ; drinking tea, reading Christopher Priest and pissing into a cut-off plastic bottle. Looks like I’ll be on skinny rations over the tops to Glenfinnan.
The horror,the horror...
Walking north through Moidart, the midges in the evening/morning are the worst I’ve ever encountered, quite astonishing. It’s like looking at a TV screen covered in static; you can see what you’re looking at but it’s shimmering, distorted, seen through a veil. Taking my tent down this morning, my hands were black with them, a pair of rippling, crawling, living gloves....
GoLite Quest 2012
Less than a month ago I took delivery of a GoLite Quest pack. After unwrapping it I went to adjust the velcro back panel to the right position - and the nylon tab came off in my hand. Hmm. I nearly sent it back there and then but decided to stick with it out of curiosity. I figured that’s what 12 month warranties are for - but never did I imagine that I’d be asking for a refund within...
Bulldog spirit
Early stop today, repair time, stitching up kit while listening to ‘The War Rooms’ EP on my AAA powered MP3 player. For the best part of two decades I wore Buffalo windshirts; tough, practical kit; big kangaroo zip pocket, side zip vents, velcro wrist closures. The last couple of years I’ve been through a Montane top I won in a photography competition (shoddy) and a Haglofs...
Back to the drawing board...
If you’re considering buying one of GoLite’s 2012 Quest packs, you might want to hold off on that for a few weeks, until my current situation has ‘resolved’ itself. More to come…
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Never say never
My blog is/was so much better than most of the badly written, pedestrian shite out there that I feel I have a public duty to reboot it. Think of it as my contribution to the Big Society.
