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EdSnow



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My FL2 enjoying Scotland

The views are just fantastic up in Scotland, but they somehow seemed even better when visited in the FL2



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bjartin



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Really wonderful view Freel2 have up there in Scotland.

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EdSnow



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bjartin - It is 08 not Q8 - it is the UK registration plate system which indicates that my FL2 was registered in early 2008.

Dave - It is part of the Ben Nevis Range. Just ventured slightly off the single track road which goes from Fort William and ends up as a dead end at a carpark. Freelander 2 XS 2.2 TD4 Met Black, with Winter pack, 18" alloys with General Grabber AT2 wellies, MANTEC Sump and Tank Guards

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EdSnow wrote:
bjartin - It is 08 not Q8 - it is the UK registration plate system which indicates that my FL2 was registered in early 2008.

Dave - It is part of the Ben Nevis Range. Just ventured slightly off the single track road which goes from Fort William and ends up as a dead end at a carpark.



Ahhhh, the Ben Nevis range. We were there in September on our west coast tour (Oban, Fort William and Isle of Skye) just stuningly beautiful scenery and even travelled the same road as you. Thumbs Up ______________________
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Hell,and you mean to tell me that even after old Campbell clocked in at Fort William after climbing those hills, and in the snow, behind your FL2 and was sent back to Glencoe, "they" still knocked them off! Sad

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Looks lovely - the car and the scenery...taken my one to Mull in April.

How was the long drive up? Everywhere is a long way from Norfolk it seems!

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EdSnow



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I took a ca Censored an so stopped at Shap in the Lakes on the way up and on the way back, but she drove like a dream both ways. Im probably heading up at for a week again at the end of this month, this time without taking the house so should be even better. Freelander 2 XS 2.2 TD4 Met Black, with Winter pack, 18" alloys with General Grabber AT2 wellies, MANTEC Sump and Tank Guards

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EdSnow wrote:
I took a ca Censored an so stopped at Shap in the Lakes on the way up and on the way back, but she drove like a dream both ways. Im probably heading up at for a week again at the end of this month, this time without taking the house so should be even better.


I'm stopping near Scotch corner on the way up and down - can't wait to do it in the FL2 rather than the FL1

It appears I have a towbar in case I want to bring a house with me..I don't

Post #34989 18th Jan 2009 10:06 pm
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Carnoch



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The unclassified road you went up was from the Fort William roundabout, where the Woolon Mill is, up the Glen Nevis road, past the caravan site, past where they filmed Brave Heart, past the slab waterfall, to the dead end car park below Five Finger Gully and to the footpath to the Iron Bridge.

I lived in the place for a couple of years. Fort William is a bit of a hole, built on a hillside. Also lived at Strontian, Acharacle, across the Corran Ferry. A lot nicer. I know the area very well and can tell you where to go for views, to see Red Deer, Sea Otters etc that even some locals that have lived there all their days don't know.

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Locally, the top car park is known as Steall Gorge Car Park.

Interestingly, I know of an inaccessable place called Valley of the Roaring, well the Gaelic equivilant. It's by the side of Loch Sheil and requires a three hour hike in. Once there, there is an isolated semi circular amphitheatre, with 100ft sheer cliffs. Up the top, in the rutting season, you can look over the edge and see up to 500 Red Deer grazing. The Stags are all 'roaring' and the sound is amplified by the cliffs. Really quite good.

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EdSnow



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Carnoch wrote:
The unclassified road you went up was from the Fort William roundabout, where the Woolon Mill is, up the Glen Nevis road, past the caravan site, past where they filmed Brave Heart, past the slab waterfall, to the dead end car park below Five Finger Gully and to the footpath to the Iron Bridge.

I lived in the place for a couple of years. Fort William is a bit of a hole, built on a hillside. Also lived at Strontian, Acharacle, across the Corran Ferry. A lot nicer. I know the area very well and can tell you where to go for views, to see Red Deer, Sea Otters etc that even some locals that have lived there all their days don't know.


That is exactly right, that road precisely! Freelander 2 XS 2.2 TD4 Met Black, with Winter pack, 18" alloys with General Grabber AT2 wellies, MANTEC Sump and Tank Guards

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Hi Carnoch,

Sounds like your the man for me! The wife and I are touring the west coast in Apri, through Glen Coe, Fort William, taking the ferry at Malaig across to Skye.

We were up there last year and loved it to bits.

We're really not 6 hour walking types although I'm good for a couple of miles. Would love to see some of the wildlife, seals is top of my list, otters and deer would be really cool too. Where would you recommend? 58 HSE, auto, lago grey, tints. Mine and my dogs Storm and Sky
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What i found great when i was up in the Killin area the other year was the amount of eagles flying around, and some great over the mountain drives on single track roads. Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

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Paul



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Me too, I'm highly interested in this thread as probably I'll go to Scotland end of April as well. (hoping to be ahead of the midges... )

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