NE Scotland Meet Glen Tanar - The Results (Pic Heavy)

[Pandabean]

We had a great time out in the woods of Glen Tanar for the weekend. It was a bit wet on the Thursday and everything was sodden wet, the rest of the weekend was a bit chilly with Sunday, the day we left, the weather was pretty fine.

Thanks to Craig for organising it and thanks to the chefs.

We were pretty well fed for the entire meet, with steak on the Thursday evening, haggis neeps and tatties on the Friday and a lovely Waggoners stew on the Saturday. Sunday was a bacon fest for breakfast, fry all the bacon we had left over and munch it down. Oh and not forgetting the lovely phesant that was cooked by Nickliv & Adze, simply lovely.

There was an abundance of pignut at this site which was fantastic to eat.

We also had a some visitors from the Duke of Edinburgh group that were camping nearby, they were pretty interested inw hat we were doing and we had a bit of show and tell with them with out kit and natural tinders.

Anyway pictures speak more than words....

The main chute....
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Setting up the chute
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Got pretty cold on Saturday night, so much that this olive oil solidified...
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A very hungry Chaz.....
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My setup. I had to close the ends off after feeling cold on the first night.
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Bushcraft TV. No licence fee required. :)
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Chance demoing the Bullroarer.
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Old pair of jeans covered in douglas fir sap to make a torch. Lasted a good 10-15 minutes.
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Drying of shavings gone wrong.
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[pwb]

Looks like you guys had a good time up there . Thanks for sharing the great pics.

Pete.

[cmonacrows]

this looks nice welldone all shame i couldnt make it next time thoe.

[MartinK9]

Great pics, thanks for sharing. :)

[charleslockerbie]

It was a great meet, great photos pandabean

[Chance]

The main chute....
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This is the parachute before we've generated a lot of hot air.
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[Ironside]

Excellent pics and you got really lucky with the weather. Maybe I will make it along to the next one.

[CBJ]

Hey folks,

It was another fantastic meet, Thanks to all those who attended.

We got lots covered over the 4 days and even gave a display and a talk to a group of youngsters who were up doing there D of E. Also we did a bit of conservation work for the rangers.

Eric got back to to say that we are welcome back anytime and it was a pleasure hosting us.

As usual I took a lot of photos but lots didn't turn out to good
The area:
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somebody been here before:

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The camp:

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stove on the go :
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Breakfast:
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collecting wood and materials:

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Andy and Chaz playing quidditch:

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starting the table:

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Craft:

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Lunch time:

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temps dipped below zero every night, woke to this:

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Pig nut hunting, there was a carpet of them :

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Fraser ( Haggis Hunter) showing us a bit of tracking:

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all about glaciers and the formation of the Glen:
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more craft:

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Conservation work ( Chopping trees down as they were encroaching on to the car park):

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Saturdays stew:

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Sunday morning:
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still time for a bit more craft (Birch oil and pine cone candles):

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Happy campers:

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thanks for looking

Craig

[pwb]

Great pics Craig.....that's one beautiful looking area.

Pete.

[RichardIT]

Pics look great! Hope to make the next one :)