About to vanish for two weeks

This is the track up to the place.

And here it is - the building is about 300 years old, the walls are over a metre thick.

According to Google Earth the line of sight to the green conifers in the background is 380m. There is a river between the two power poles in the foreground.

Wow, it is beautiful! Have a great time Don and take many pictures!

If the weather permits. It is snowing there just now. Not all that cold though, only -2.

Is about 8km from where I will be.

What can be desired by one flashaholic to another:



ROFL :bigsmile: :p Don't forget batts also, Don :bigsmile: Have a nice trip ;)

I would also get a box of beer of choice if it is a leisure trip...

This is right in the middle of where the whisky comes from...

Actually, I prefer English beer to Scottish, the Scottish stuff tends to be of very high original gravity and hence very strong. But there is a lot of residual sugar leading to a sweetish beer which I find unpleasant.

There is a distillery in England that makes whisky. I believe cats are involved.

Nice trip Don! Do you know which flashlights and batteries are you going to carry?

All of them that I can find. :)

At least 100 of them.

And the batteries, chargers, spares and so on. About 60kg in total. Which I'll have to carry for around a kilometre up the track.

Along with the food, clothing, cameras, dog food, dog bed.

It'll be some healthy exercise for me.

Have fun Don. We will miss your post while your gone

You will carry 100 lights! I have something between 10 and 15, and I sometimes forget some of them around the house.. I don't know how can you avoid losing them!

I don't. I've lost two in the last 3 months.

There are something like 130 of them around here - I can usually find 110 or so.

Any access to snowmobiles around that area Don? Looks like a place where you can have lots of fun snowmobiling.

I've not seen a snowmobile round there in years. No idea why...

Good luck, Don. Have a great trip!

Don your biggest dilemma will be which torches to take.

Enjoy yourself.

By the time you get back, I will have passed the 4000 posts mark.

Only another 3560 posts to do. Life is hard.

Great house Don! Have a great holiday!

Now trying to find a real dog sled. I know where to get one in New Zealand - there's a guy there whose living is building them for Antarctic expeditions wood still works better than anything else for this purpose - but it is rather a long way from here to go for a sledge.

And your assistant will be pulling you around in this dog sled? Laughing

Have a nice vacation Don, and don't forget to bring plenty of spare cells! : )

Probably just using her (or was it him?) to haul the torches :)