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Old 04-06-2012, 03:15 AM
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Och Aye - you were in the very deep waters of the Great Glen - Scotland's coast-to-coast ancient geological fault line.

You were indeed in a lonely spot in walking the military road* to the tarn:

http://escape2places.files.wordpress...inwarning7.jpg

Btw, you met your stag much like the Monarch in her Land Rover met the Monarch of the Glen (the stunning scene from the movie The Queen ).


*Wade built 250 miles of road and 40 bridges for George I following the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Four new military garrisons were to be linked
and if you were on the south side of Loch Ness it was probably the Inverness to Fort William military road (the ten companies of militia he also created later became the famous Regiment of the Black Watch).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ge....uk-242563.jpg
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Old 04-06-2012, 03:26 AM
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See if this works for the road:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/General_Wade's_Military_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242563.jpg
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Old 04-06-2012, 04:28 AM
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Old 04-06-2012, 04:42 AM
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Old 04-06-2012, 07:48 AM
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I think this is my little tarn, it doesn't even have a name on the map:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=57.1...h&gl=uk&z= 17

General Wade's Military Road is now the B862

We were staying at Fort Augustus, mine was the only small tent that didn't blow down.
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Old 04-06-2012, 02:57 PM
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Wow, great resolution - and good job you had your compass with you.

The stag shot was fabricated but nevertheless a most memorable movie scene (and it later died at another's hands in the story of course).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l-VCl5QuY
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Old 04-06-2012, 03:04 PM
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