Scottish Ice Trip - Day 4 March 1, 2009
DAY 4 : RAIN.
Scottish question: What to do on a rainy day ?
Scottish question: What to do on a rainy day ?
Back home, we would probably stay in front of the internet checking the next sunny window to come up, but here, you have to deal with it.
It's a fact.
We are now leaving Aviemore to Fort William to settle down for the rest of the trip.
After stoping by a fish and chip shop, we head to a place called Dunkeld to go dry tooling. A perfect way to get rid of the fat just ingested. Once the car park reached, it's now looking for the spot.






7 mountain guides looking for a spot (3mn away from the car), for 45mn... well done!!
We are now in an old slate working place...
Usha !! Improper for such activity...

Trad is dead... Welcome to Bolt-Land !
It doesn't really matter anyway we are hungry for working out and it will fit perfectly. Everyone make tries everywhere, some spending their energy in routes such as Fast and furious. There are holes everywhere for the axes and most of the holds are hand cut.

After a long struggle in this jurassic atmosphere, the night is now in the game. Switching on our Ultra headlamps to throw some more tries. Arms are finally sore and everyone looks finally happy.

Then the stress... we are late for dinner in Fort William and Erwan is driving... the roads are wet, tiny, dark, people driving on the right wrong side. At the back, everyone open up a can of strongbow cider 5.2% to relax. But every time a truck arrives in front of us, it's tight teeth and eyes wide open ! We finally arrive late for dinner but alive. After gobbled up our reheated Veggie Haggis, we check out the weather forecast for the next day :
Rain, wind, storm with rising temperature...

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