Across Scotland Canoe Trip (part 2)
Thanks for the emails from the people who were concerned that I hadn’t made it back from our epic across Scotland Canoe Trip! I’ve been trying to create a Scrapblog of the trip, but I can’t seem to get he photos to up-load to the Scrapblog site. I guess I’ll need to ask Stuart or one of the other Scrapblog experts about this.
Anyway, we has a really good trip and in the end it took us
6 days to get from Kinlochleven to Perth.
The total journey was about 152 km and during this time we carried the canoes,
dragged the canoes, paddled the canoes, sailed the canoes, poled the canoes,
tracked the canoes and lined the canoes over some pretty challenging terrain. The
highlight for me was the canoe sailing using our improvised rigs on some of the
big lochs including Loch Tummel – where the wind was at about the edge of our
comfort zone.
The trip was a major expedition and anyone interested in repeating the journey should get in touch.
I have imported some of my photos into splashr above. If you use Flickr and you have not had a play around with splashr yet, its well worth a look.
UPDATE: Stuart Meldrum has produced a nice tutoral on how to use scrapblog!
Glad you like it!
Posted by: Stuart Meldrum | April 21, 2007 at 02:30 PM
Some nice pictures. :) But dragging those canoes looks like too much work for me! That's why I stick to packrafts and lightweight gear... Of course for others to learn from our lightweight approach, I should get around to putting things in metric units. Just realizing my whole page is in our backwards American pounds and ounces...
-Erin
Posted by: Erin McKittrick | April 22, 2007 at 08:30 PM
Hi Erin, I could certainly learn a lot from your light weight approach. I loved the way that you turned your ther-a-rests into life vests! OB
Posted by: OllieBray | April 23, 2007 at 07:40 PM
Like the info you've produced Ollie. Planning to do this trip as a first dip into the open boating scene, to see if I'm capable any more!!! Long time since I've done the wild thing.
Posted by: Ray Cassidy | April 04, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Good luck Ray - I wouldn't try this particular trip for your first re-visit to the open boating scene! Email me if you need any more info. OB
Posted by: OllieBray | April 04, 2009 at 10:48 AM