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Georgew1959

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Just a short trip - first of the year
« on: May 30, 2014, 08:20:39 AM »
This wasn't really a trip as such, but we did enjoy a first naked walk of the year, albeit a short one, last week. Driving from Mallaig on the west cost of the Scottish Highlands, to Perth on the south-east edge of the Highlands, we'd chosen the route through Glencoe and across Rannoch Moor - a horrible road to drive but some of the best scenery Scotland has to offer. Coming out of the top of Glencoe and starting to cross Rannoch Moor, we pulled over to enjoy the wildness of it before it becomes too busy with tourists later in the season. You don't have to go far from the road to get the wild feeling here, with such a wide open landscape fringed by mountains, including one of my favourites, Buachaiile Etive Mor - one of the most-photgraphed mountains in Scotland. hHat a pleasure to be naked in such a beautiful, elemental landscape!

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Re: Just a short trip - first of the year
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2014, 08:19:36 AM »
The pic reminds me of the wide open space that we enjoy in Arizona. You obviously aren't knee deep in sagebrush and prickers. Just what is the vegetation in the area.
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Re: Just a short trip - first of the year
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2014, 08:02:09 AM »
It's mostly heather here, with a few juniper and gorse bushes and a very occasional Rowan or birch tree. The soil is peat, so very acidic, and that limits what will survive on the moor.

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