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Thursday, September 28, 2006
The Most Awesome Climbing Video Ever
I'm not messing about with a long post on this one. My hands are sweating too much after watching it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4832527121139830698 Dean Potter soloing The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite. Go - watch it now! Posted by bigcrags @
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 Thursday, September 21, 2006 Is the Land Reform Act falling to bits?
This legislation through the Scottish Parliament was meant to protect responsible public access to all rural land and wild places across Scotland. It would appear that a few people are rich enough to think that the law doesn't apply to them. The act is currently being challenged by Ann Gloag at Kinfauns Castle near Perth, and by Euan Snowie of Boquhan Estate, at Kippen, west Stirlingshire. Others have also challenged it in the past.
Surely in buying an estate they must realise that they are now custodians of the land with a responsibility to allow (non-motorised) public access to all but the area immediately surrounding their residence. If they can't deal with that then they have no place being a landowner in Scotland. I would go so far as to say that continued non-compliance should result in the freezing of assets. The law is there for all of us. We have to be responsible when we're on the land and they have the responsibility to provide access to that land. I really do hope that these cases are overturned and that our land access rights in Scotland continue to be defended rigorously. Posted by bigcrags @
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Munro Bagging Golden Anniversary
The Scotsman has a good story about John Mallinson, a Munroist who completed the Munros 50 years ago to become the youngest ever completer at the time. The story tells of his adventures and gets him up Ben Chonzie in Perthshire once again at the age of 74.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 Hillwalk Scotland
One of my favourite outdoors bloggers in the UK is back online now with a new domain name. Bagger is now Hillwalk Scotland. I'm looking forward to seeing the new site develop.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Photos of Scotland
The Scotsman have a review of a book of photos called A Sense of Belonging to Scotland. Celebrities and famous Scots have chosen their favourite locations and Andy Hall has gone and created a book of photographs of them. There are loads of good outdoors and mountain photos in there.
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