Hillwalking Thread

[hk blues]

3 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:

Glenfernate is the big hoose as the Gaelic is Gleann Fearnait - Glen of the Alders which somehow gets changed to Glen Fearnach.

I'll do time if anyone near me describes Knoydart as a wilderness. It has a pub, dozens of houses, metalled roads, farms, forestry, shooting estate, hydro schemes and is like Sauchiehall St on a July afternoon.

 

So a kind of wilderness then? 

[invergowrie arab]

Cultural maybe 

[Florentine_Pogen]

4 minutes ago, hk blues said:

So a kind of wilderness then? 

Yes, a bewilderedness.

[Swello]

30 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:

I'll do time if anyone near me describes Knoydart as a wilderness. It has a pub, dozens of houses, metalled roads, farms, forestry, shooting estate, hydro schemes and is like Sauchiehall St on a July afternoon.

Not even what it's like now as it repopulates  -it used to be very well populated - you can literally walk through cleared townships (the Para would have walked through one at Carnach if he was on the correct route). Must be the only wilderness that had a shinty team

Scotland does have wild land and lots of it - but practically no untouched wilderness. Our horrible land ownership patterns have fooled people into thinking these places are unhabitable in some way when that has never been the story.