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A threatening day after a very wet week, so I picked a route
out of the wind and, hopefully, the rain. We got six stalwarts
at the church: Alasdair C., Allan, Edward, John Donaldson,
Robbie C. and Zander, with Howard as the solitary helper.
Actually we could have had another since Peter William went
to the Camas Torsa picnic site but we drove past and he didn't
follow us. There was another attraction in Acharacle so we
didn't stay out too long.
We started from the Forestry turning place and had a look
at the old building, which was once part of Camas Torsa village.
Then we headed up the burn until we found the old track, now
marked with quad bike tyre tracks. We turned left and kept
on following the track, crossing a lot of big fallen trees
on the way.
After about a hundred metres, the track suddenly broadened
out and we could see a stretch of the old Glenborrodale road,
down which John Somers had travelled in 1848. There was a
stone dyke on one side of the track and banking on the downhill
side. Unfortunately the track was interrupted by several large
fallen trees and some floods so we had to pick our way carefully.
The woods were full of dead old trees which had bee overshadowed
by the spruce and the younger explorers had a great time pushing
these over until a big chunk fell on Robbie, after which a
certain amount of caution crept in.
We followed the old track, an then an animal track which could
have been on the same route, for about a kilometre and then
turned back towards the car park. We returned on drier ground
closer to the main road and stopped at a convenient place
for a snack before returning to the track and the car park.
We just had time for a quick excursion to the Whisky Tree
before coming back to the Pantry, with one or more extra trees
to push over on the way, plus a chance for getting wet feet
in the burn.
John
Dye
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