Wild Lochaber Blogs
The latest bleats from the sheep on the street...
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
We have put together a collection of Lochaber blogs to highlight the traditions, culture and wildlife in the various regions, including the West Coast Islands.
We show entries from the last 100 days, organised by region, topic and blog. The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
Lochaber Voice
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My latest e-newsletter has hit inboxes across Lochaber. In this edition, you can read about my campaign to persuade Stagecoach to ditch their damaging proposals to axe the Sunday bus service south of Fort William. And council officers have listened to my plea for a repair and maintenance programme...
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Thank you to the residents that have contacted me about Stagecoach weekday timetable changes on route 44 that will have a big effect on those using the service to get to and from work. I’ve made an additional response to their consultation to highlight these issues, as follows: Dear Sir,...
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The petition urging Stagecoach to reconsider their proposals to axe the Sunday bus service between Fort William and Kinlochleven now has over 250 signatures. You can still sign it here. I have also lodged the following submission in response to the company’s consultation on timetable changes...
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Stagecoach Highland has sneaked out proposed changes to bus timetables without highlighting that they have axed the Sunday service on bus route 44 between Fort William and Kinlochleven. They have failed to bring this to the attention of consultees such as the Highland Council or local...
The Whitehouse Kitchen
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ok so i think we can safely say winter is over ,, fingers crossed .. but daffs are out so i say its spring we are gearing up now for the coming season at the restaurant , its going to be cool we have worked all winter on developing the new menus ,, now we have created something we have been asked...
Lochaber Guides
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It's been a challenging first part of the winter for me. Just before Christmas, my previous back injury recurred putting me out of a action for a few weeks. Winter conditions have been slow to build up in the mountains with quite a few periods of thaw and never a huge amount of snow to build up a...
fortwilliam.co.uk
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Much of history is of great events – good or bad – often told from the point of view of the victor. But often on a journey through a museum little personal items have a story to tell. To take a very brief short tour through the West Highland Museum start at 1588. The defeat of the...
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One question most often asked by our junior members, both past and present, and also by some visitors is how we acquire our exhibits. Some of our exhibits are gifted by individual donors, or by families clearing out attics or outhouses. Or, by serendipity – like the secret portrait our...
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Loch Ness Monster, prehistoric giant beneath the deep dark sea? (Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 12:24)Some people will claim that the existence of the Loch Ness Monster has really only been a topic of conversation for around a century or so. Interestingly, this would tie in with the growing popularity of photography amongst the general public – and the earliest of so many intriguing...
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…rather than Fort William, Antarctica, where, to be honest, no-one would have noticed! However, in a closely-knit community (just look at those jumpers) such as Fort William, bad behaviour by any member of the local chapter of Hells Haggis causes great unrest. As local West Highland...
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. 1. A man goes into a shop to return a pair of shoes, complaining that there’s a lace missing… Flickr: arekolek 2. What did the Glaswegian pair of conjoined twins call their autobiography? dcthomson.co.uk / Via sundaypost.com 3. A Glasgow woman goes to the dentist for a...
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Scottish native? An exile, perhaps marooned elsewhere in the currently United Kingdom? Living far out there in the real world but with Scottish antecedents? The desire to visit parts of Bonnie Scotland can be a powerful one. Fight strongly against it! Time you knew the truth about...
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Image Credit: McSporran Photography https://fortwilliam.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Five-reasons-you-should-try-a-road-trip-in-Scotland.mp4 Video by Rough Guides Scotland is undoubtedly one of the most breathtaking places on the planet, and well known for it. The scenery is...
Kirkhope Mountaineering
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I was working an intro to climbing course this weekend for Hebridean Pursuits with a group from the Manchester University MC. It has been a great weekend of climbing and very sociable too with two other climbing groups out. We were in Stob Coire nan Lochan on Saturday and climbed Broad gully, along...
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I'm back home after a few days over in the Cairngorms and have just found some time to catch up on the blog. Saturday was a stunning day with blue skies and lots of snow but warm temperatures and heavy rain made Sunday feel like a completely different experience. Angus Gary and I headed for Golden...
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I'm climbing with Angus and Gary this weekend for Abacus Mountain Guides, they have been out with me for a few years now and whilst we were chatting this morning we found out that they hadn't done Ledge route. Decisions made and what a day for it! We shared the route with a few other teams and...
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Day two with the West Highland students and today we wanted to build on yesterday's movement skills and some ice axe arrest. With stronger winds and for a change of scene we headed up to the Glencoe Ski Centre slopes which are holding a good amount of snow and we were going to be protected from the...
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It has been a very dry December and January and the Highlands have not looked as white as they should do for a while now. We have had some cold temperatures and people have been climbing routes but mostly just the big gully's and the odd mountaineering route.I wasn't too hopeful for today in terms...
An Appetite for Lochaber
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For the last 10 years, the Gentlemen of Kingussie have offered hospitality for a period of about 24hrs somewhere between Christmas and New Year, to a motley crew of sometime gentlemen from near and far. Up until this year, my role in this event has been to take reception of the remnants of that...
The Mingarry Blodge
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Whilst there is plenty of wildlife around Mingarry Lodges, we decided to head out on the road during 2016 to explore slightly further afield in search of some new wildlife sightings. We have chosen twelve highlights, all of which can be encountered on day trips from Mingarry Lodges or on a multi-...
