#knoydart

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3 day hike through Scotland, beautiful mountains and valleys and not another soul in sites... Aside from travel companions, step father photo bombing! 😂

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Loch Coire Shùbh, Kinlochhourn, Scotland

📸 by Damian Shields Photography

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Waverley Trip - Knoydart.

The Waverley only allowed us about 30 minutes on shore here, the pub was still being refurbished, I could have bought a coffee, but by the time I stood in the cue I would be back on the pier queuing to reboard, so I just wandered around and grabbed a few pics.

Knoydart s a peninsula in the Lochaber district on the West Highlands. It comprises the Northern part of what is known as the Rough Bounds.

The principal village of the Knoydart Peninsula is  Iverie Other settlements on the peninsula include Sandaig and Airor.

Other than on the Waverley, which, if you are lucky, will make one journey to the peninsula a year, access to Inverie is across Loch Nevis from Mallaig at the end of the West Highland Railway Line. and a 30-minute boat ride from Mallaig. Loch crossings are operated by two ferry services.

If you have visited and taken the alternative route, a 17 mile hike over mountainous terrain, then hats off to you.

The population currently stands at around 120 full time residents. The village provides basic amenities including a Post Office and Primary School, along with our community shop, Tearoom and the remotest pub in mainland Britain, The Old Forge which came under community ownership in 2022.

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Knoydart Peninsula | Robert Ormerod | WSJ

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The Three-Legged Monster of Loch Hourn

To this day the folks residing about Loch Hourn believe that loch to be haunted by a monster, to which they refer as the Wild Beast of Barrisdale. Less than sixty vears ago, by the shores of Loch Hourn, a crofter who once encountered this monster. He assured his neighbours that this ungainly creature had gigantic wings, and was three-legged. He often saw it in flight across the hills of Knoydart, especially about Barrisdale itself ; and he averred that on one occasion, when it was making for him with evil design, he rushed for the shelter of his cottage. As the crofter himself used to relate up until the time of his death, he just succeeded in slamming the door in the monster's face. The dwellers by the more remote shores of Loch Hourn frequently heard the terrifying roar of the Wild Beast of Barrisdale ; and an old man living in this locality, called Ranald MacMaster, ofttimes discovered the tracks of this three-legged creature on the hills, and also about the sandy stretches fringing Barrisdale Bay.

The Peat-Fire Flame : folk-tales and traditions of the Highlands & Islands, Alasdair A. MacGregor

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Get Lost Deer Keds

There is a fly in my eye.

Or right next to my eye. It feels like its trying to get into the eye though, and it's not being removed by a regulation brushing or swatting motion, so I have to squeeze it between my fingers and chuck it off.

It's the same for the ones on my arms, and on the back of my neck. The ones on my legs are getting away with it because there are too many of its brethren crawling around further up my body.

We are trying to climb a mountain in Knoydart - home of mainland Britain's remotest pub - but the heat, our lack of water, and these godforsaken flying menaces are making things very difficult.

What the hell are they, and why won't they get off me!

Even when we get off the mountain they are still there, burrowing around our hair and we keep finding them hours later, scuttling over our skin with no wings, more like spiders than flies. Writing this I can feel their tiny little feet all over my neck.

The name indicates the cause of the main problem - these wee beasties are designed to land on deer, but they are instead mistaking our human hair for the nice, welcoming back of a cervine mammal.

When they land on the deer they shed their wings - quite a deranged quirk of evolution, giving them no other options should the whole thing go south. But if indeed they have landed on a deer then its happy days for the ked, because deer famously don't have hands, and so cannot pluck them off.

Landing on a human then, is a worst-case scenario for both the deer ked and the human - from their perspective because they are going to be removed to (at best) wander around wingless, and from the human perspective because it requires hours of rigorous manual removal of slippery, squirming, snide little shits.

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Midges, obviously, are the classical scourge of the Scottish summer, and everyone knows to check for ticks, with the risk of Lyme disease they may carry, but the discovery of this fresh hell has coloured my relationship with the outdoors.

There is no option other than to stay inside and consume a massive amount of media - so perhaps you'll see me making my return to televisual quizzing at some point in the near future. Though not on University Challenge, because in order to get to class I'd have to leave the house, risking another encounter with a swarm of wriggling critters.

So there's no risk of me appearing in the second round facing either of the two teams who played tonight - Warwick and UEA, which is the University of East Anglia, not a typo for the United Arab Emirates.

Warwick and UEA played in 2007, a match Jack McB recounted in great detail in a recent blog of his, discussing it as one of the great sliding doors moments in UC history.

We'll have to wait a while to see if this match lives up to the same billing. If you want to watch the episode before reading the rest of the post you can do so here.

Here's your first starter for ten.

Warwick skipper Siddle, wearing a university squash club top with an unacceptable logo or brand taped over on his left sleeve, opens the scoring with Afghanistan. A full set of bonuses on the US electoral system follows, before Hart adds to their lead with Andre, with one of the clues relating to Andre the Giant, who was known as the eighth wonder of the world in the WWE.

Other candidates for the eighth wonder of the world include the Giant's Causeway, the Great Wall of China, and, perhaps bizarrely, the Forth Road Bridge. Although maybe they had to build that while being attacked by deer keds in which case it fully deserves the title.

Hart is able to see the big picture, taking a second starter with IMAX and another perfect set extends their lead to 60 points before Willis gets UEA off the mark with Malta on a picture starter.

The First Picture Starter

I always agonise about describing the picture starters by specifying their number - i.e. the first picture starter, the second picture starter. But I've never the liked the phrasing - it's too clunky and long. However, I can't describe it as the picture starter, because there are two of them, even though it is incredibly obvious from context which one I'm referring to. Equally, it has always felt silly to say 'a picture starter' when there are only two, but maybe that's just me being silly (perhaps this is all just me being silly). So I'm going to try that out for a few weeks and see how it goes.

UEA took a full set of island nations on the picture bonuses, and Willis grabbed himself another starter with shoulder. There's a quote by the author Robert Muchamore where he complains about how sometimes when you spot that you are over-using certain words (as authors often do, especially in first drafts) you realise that there are no real alternatives. The word in question was shoulder. There's not really much you can say instead of shoulder.

UEA's North mishears the request for a Jane Austen character rather than novel on the next starter, giving Mansfield Park instead of Fanny Price, and I'm worried that both sides are going to miss a starter on Black Sabbath, but Watson takes the points for Warwick. They race through another full set on lesser-known brass instruments, then Hart takes another starter with Markov chains. They are flying (but not like deer keds), and have a lead of more than a hundred.

Shaffrey closes the gap with Plutarch, and closes it further with South Africa next time around and further still with The Aviator on a picture starter (I'm not sure I like that any more than 'second picture starter' to be honest), but Warwick remain 70 points clear thanks to Hart's buzzer jamboree, and the gulf between the sides would only increase as the gong approached.

Warwick 275 - 125 UEA

This match wasn't close enough to be a sliding doors moment, I don't think, with Warwick looking very impressive going into the second round. UEA can be proud of their performance, and should be glad they didn't encounter any deer keds on the way home.

See you next week for the series' first Oxbridge derby as St Cath's, Cam take on Wadham, Ox.

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High camp this evening. I wonder how often people swing past this summit cairn? Forget 'wilderness' areas like Knoydart - you've got to go further these days to get away from the Youtubers, influencers and post-Covid Instagram wankers out living their best lives. Having munched my way through six days of food, it's time to start heading back in tomorrow. I'll bring more next time.

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At a Remote Scottish Pub, a Pint Worth Hiking 20 Miles

The Old Forge on the rugged peninsula of Knoydart is a community-owned meeting point for locals and visitors — at least those willing to trek across the wilderness. source https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/world/europe/britain-remote-pub-knoydart.html

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Ailsa Hutton, Winner MSA Stage 3 award 2024

The Hidden Network of Mycelium Exploring the impact of micro-ecosystems on macro-ecosystems

The Hidden Network of Mycelium Exploring the impact of micro-ecosystems on macro-ecosystems

The Highland Clearances caused mass deforestation and contributed to the erosion of traditional Gaelic culture and life in the Highlands. The process of deforestation has contributed to the loss of biodiversity and ecological degradation in Scotland. These impacts are being fought by small communities like on the Knoydart Peninsula.

There are challenges that the Knoydart Forest Trust are facing when rewilding Knoydart. The first being, planting sites are becoming so rural that the team have no road access and must walk to site. This takes up too much time to plant many trees. Another issue is poor soil structure which covers most of the highlands. This is a problem because plants struggle to grow and mature in this soil, so there is no guaranty it survives long enough to enrich the landscape.

My proposal is a semi-permanent structure to house the team during planting season on site and will also focus on improving soil structure ensuring success of the new forest. There are challenges and difficulties building in rural areas. Having an in-depth knowledge of the community is crucial to this design. It was massively beneficial to understand the scientific processes that happens in ecosystems as it pushed me to approach this project with a fabric first method. Fully understanding of my own impact.

The design is a physical interpretation of reciprocity in ecology as it demonstrates that attitudes of responsibility for our planet aren't a 'one-way' relationship. If people give to the earth, the earth will nurture people back. Nature doesn't work as independent parts, but instead as a whole machine that needs every part of it to work and thrive. People are a part of that machine, and it is essential for generations to understand this.

Reciprocity is a transaction of mutual gain.

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(2023-08-19 image ©john muir trust) Knoydart is the most remote place on the UK mainland - no vehicular access only walking over 10Km or by boat. The question is should this have 4G coverage?

The argument for is that it would enhance the visitor experience from a safely standpoint, although this would also bring in social media as well.

The argument against is the mobile coverage needs a mast and this mast will be a blot on the remote landscape.

For me and my one-man campaign to cover the whole of the UK with 4G it is a no-brainer. We must have the mast to get the services. Others are against the mast and thus the intrusion of 4G. The jury is out on Knoydart as plans for a number of Shared Rural Network masts have been proposed.

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A wee excursion!

Was looking to book a trip on my birthday, but The Waverley is down south in June, so have to do it a bit early. A couple of nights in a hostel in Oban and a wee trip to Inverie on the Knoydart peninsula. Never been there before, the only way to get there is either a 17-mile over mountainous terrain or by boat. Will be my first time on The Waverley too.

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Knoydart, October 2020

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Sgurr na Ciche by Julian Hodgson Via Flickr: Sgurr na Ciche (1040m), seen above the River Carnach, Knoydart. Saturday June 4, 1988. A digital copy of a 35mm Kodachrome 64 film transparency. Nikon FM, 35 - 70mm f3.3 - f4.5 Nikkor F-series lens.

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