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Is it Grantown on spey that you have a house Del? There was a programme on Channel 5 the other night and they had the plough/gritter drivers featured from Granton on Spey and from the other side at ApplecrossCheers Ian
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18th Jan 2014 2:36 pm
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Yep, good old Grantoon. There was a prog on a while ago about the ploughs & gritters but didn't see that one.
Mind you, that last pic wasn't my drive, it was the ski road up to the main cairngorm car park where the use a snow blower. They also use the blower on Dava Moor road where it can drift just as deep.
18th Jan 2014 3:23 pm
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It may be the same thing just repeated I do remember something like it being shown a while ago but I hadn't seen this one. It also featured a RAC man going out to a van stuck on a white lane/farm track just on the other side of the valley to me after the nugget of a driver blindly followed his sat nav Cheers Ian
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18th Jan 2014 4:13 pm
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DSL, yes - some friends of mine not far from you in Tomintoul had 3 solid months of ice and snow - they said some residents left the village saying they couldn't face all that again.
OK for us on holidays - great skiing as long as you could get there - but we found it was so deep that it was impossible to go for a walk on the Cromdale hills around us ( Strathavon, the B9136 ) as we were exhausted in snow over the knees.
18th Jan 2014 6:57 pm
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It's why we bought Souhern Gaff. Just though WTF were we doing up there in that when we had alternatives. Whilst peeps here crave snow, month after month after month after month gets a bit wearing. Good fun for playing in but you pretty soon work out that a D3 is not invincible in the white stuff when you struggle to get back into your drive.
18th Jan 2014 7:13 pm
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Hairy Dan wrote:
Is it Grantown on spey that you have a house Del? There was a programme on Channel 5 the other night and they had the plough/gritter drivers featured from Granton on Spey and from the other side at Applecross
I saw that but why the f k did they need subtitles for the natives speaking?
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18th Jan 2014 10:40 pm
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DSL so as you go South we go North. I was snowed out once for 12 days - we are 1.5 miles off road. Walking up a different route took about 15 mins, which was OK. Main concern was we were running short on bottled gas.
I have also learnt the hard and scary way how all tyres are compromises. My Cooper STTs were brilliant in fresh snow and mud but lethal when our track by the River Avon turns into ice plates - we have come very close to sliding off the track into the river.
So I bought proper snow tyres and they are useless in mud.
19th Jan 2014 9:46 am
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Yep found same for MTRs, brill on deep fresh snow but fun on ice. Use ATRs as a good all rounder, sipped to give a bit of grip on ice but enough bite for the fresh stuff and offroad. Luckiy our house is not too far and close to a road that is always ploughed/gritted so as long as I dig put the drive I can get to te lane then down to the road. Getting up the lane can be interesting though.
Also learned the hard way when it stops snowing get digging the drive out. Don't drive on the snow as it will get compacted to ice and if the temps stay low that can be around for weeks & weeks. Also use a proper show shovel with a plastic buisiness end, when temps get cold (-10c to -15c sort of thing) the snow sticks to the metal shovel which is annoying.
Mind you none of that this year, just loving the mild winter.
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19th Jan 2014 9:51 pm
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T'is indeed.
19th Jan 2014 9:53 pm
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Nice little alpine pass in the centre of Switzerland, yesterday afternoon (yes, there are still some small passes left open, even in winter).
I took the fotos half the way up (at a altitude of aprox. 1'100 m, 15% inclination) to the top where everything seemed nice and easy...
3rd Feb 2014 10:04 am
Mark Y
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This weekend, safari convoy driving in Norway
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3rd Feb 2014 1:30 pm
WINDSWEPTISLANDER
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^ Where can I sign up for some of that?
I love Norway, but have never been in the winter, wherabouts were the above taken?
3rd Feb 2014 2:22 pm
Mark Y
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The photos were taken in forests 40 minutes north of Skien, it was arranged through LRE Norway.
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k did they need subtitles for the natives speaking?
