Munkeys Xmas Scotland Tour

[waycar8]

, great read as usaul Chris, sounds like you did the same run as we did on the run back from orkney

[catzi]

Just read the blog - really enjoyable and very memorable.

You're a brave man choosing the road over the Dava Moor in the snow though. I try to avoid that road even in good weather!

[dave_aber]

Just read your blog Monkey - Impressive stuff.

The Dava in the snow is a challenge which I tend to avoid if I can (There are 2 other routes from Elgin to Aviemore, just as direct but not as much 'fun') Good on you for trying it, and surviving! I did it once in a Renault 5 in very deep drifting snow (about 4' deep in places). More a case of driving through it rather than over it. Wouldn't repeat it with the family though.

Oh, and the reason the Loch Linnie seems to be tidal is that it is tidal. It's a sea loch - the end of it isn't closed off. It just joins onto the Sound of Mull and the Firth of Lorn.

[mikeonb4c]

Looking at MMs Dara Road experience brings back to mind old memories.....

I've listened to lots of glider pilots telling tales of derring-do about the time they went into a thundercloud: everything iced up, hail hammered hard on the airframe, lightening struck the wingtip, fabric got torn off, they ascended to twenty thousand feet though they had no oxygen on board etc etc. All that sort of stuff. Very impressive and I used to wonder how strong their nerves must be to take on that kind of challenge.

.....but I always had a suspicion that none of them knew what was about to happen when they entered the bottom of what looked from below like most other clouds because they were enjoying been in a 10 knot thermal so much they didn't want to leave it. Had they had known what lay ahead, would they have had the nerve to continue?

I'd want snowchains and/or an Eberspacher heater and a full fuel tank in that weather

[friendeedebs]

fab x loved reading it, feel a bit of a fairweather bongoer now great pics too
Debs

[Bongoplod]

As ever Chris,brilliant,and I agree with others,very brave to attempt driving on some of those roads,not for the faint hearted,and not for me either.

Brian