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The weather was warm, but it poured with rain the whole time
we were out. Not that it mattered since we were well wrapped
up. Maybe the season is starting to pick up: we got three
explorers, Benjamin, Thomas and John Donaldson and two helpers:
Pamela and Sandra, with Bruce as the expedition dog.
We first went up to the Ordnance Survey Trig. Point at the
top of the hill and then crossed a little valley to the old
Observation Corps Post. We stopped and had a biscuit while
I read out some notes on the post, the people who worked in
it and the German bomber they saw during World War 2.
Then we climbed back down the hill, sheltering next to a large
fallen tree with interlaced roots making a wall in the air.
Negotiating a fence, which Benjamin and Thomas wriggled through
like eels, we returned to the road at the cattle grid and
crossed another fence to reach the old cairn and heard about
some of the extraordinary things which had happened in that
vicinity.
Leaving the cairn we collected the cars and drove to the Loch
na Dunaig Forestry Block. From here we crossed the road and
went down the hill behind the hotel to look at the ancient
grave. Finally we returned to the forest and walked down to
the loch where we found some of the charcoal which had been
stored there over two hundred years before.
We were pretty pleased to get back to the warm and dry Centre
for our soup and drawing session.
John
Dye
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