Queenie79 Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Love the photo, just adds to Foula's mystical appearance! Looks like it might just float away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 for Skyumpi: http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/njugle/DSCF4449.jpghttp://www.shetlink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=102047#102047 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Glad to see it wasn't just me trecking to the top of hills wi ma snowboard how was the ride down fae Weisdale summit?might try mossy hill at the weekend if the snows still there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyumpi Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 for Skyumpi: Nice wan!I tried to come down the steep bit of the Cuppins this morning but made an 'arris of it, fell and lost a ski. Not easy getting back up to retrieve it the blighter. I was pretty puggled by the time I'd got it back so woosed out and tracked north a bit to take the easier route down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Wish I'd been able to stop the bus this afternoon to take a picture just after the humalees, the big loch just before the west burrafirth junction had a procession of sheep walking across it. I'd just been giving the bairn a bit of a lecture about why she couldn't walk over the loch before - even though the rabbits had been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 @MaxF It was excellent. Totally different between Sunday and yesterday. On Sunday the road gully to the top made for a great mini-half-pipe effect with fans up the edges and small deposits of powder in the bottom. The steeper slopes were treacherous with crusts. Yesterday, complete opposite really. Road had 2-3ft of powder in it and not enough slope to get up "on the plane", but the steeper slopes were magic! Floating on air. But there steep and there's steep. The slopes over at the Cuppins, as Skyumpi is speaking of, were absolutely mental. (And with the aches I have today I feel mental for going anywhere near them ). Hiking up a slope above 45' angle in 2-3ft powder was - as my colleague identified- worse than Spinning. It was like something from a mountaineering expedition!And then, on descent, my board clogged and I lost all control of it in the near dark and coudn't see where I was going anyway. Madness. We went up the diagonal fence, but I'm sure there has to be an easier ascent there, might have to ask Skyumpi for that one? I deeply sympathise at having to go back up there to retrieve a ski. What a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 The track coming doon fae the bressa masts looks hell o a tempting fae my window Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarotangel Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 I live right at the bottom and I'd say go for it if you can get up there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydee67 Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Taken on my way home 13-2-09 Mangaster Voehttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/jaydee67/DSCF5396.jpg Frozen loch:http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/jaydee67/DSCF5392.jpg The island of Foula in disguise as an iceberghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/jaydee67/DSCF5397.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddrun Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 WOW !!!!Jaydee, I hope I'm allowed to use this too .....Amazing !!Cheers , Oddrun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydee67 Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 That's fine oddrun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunnered Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Love the photo, just adds to Foula's mystical appearance! Looks like it might just float away!Ah, so that's how it got there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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