+1 even more spooky!

Well well I've passed by those cottages for more years than I care to remember. The Drumochter hills are easy for me to get to & I've wandered them in all weathers from blazing hot sunshine to waste deep snow.

As per above they were derelict for a long number of years. Someone (I assume the present owners) must have bought them & "did them up" That would have been a big job considering the state they were in. Oddly enough I've never spoken to anyone in the cottages. They seem to keep themselves to themselves or perhaps they get a bit fed up with the passing hillwalking fraternity. Did get a bit of a scare once when their deerhounds/wolfhounds rushed out but fortunately I haven't seen them for a while.

Don't know how many (if any) trains pass in the night but the track is only a few feet from the cottage. Must seem like the train is coming through the bedroom door.

Breckie, they only get two significant trains a day.

The Eddie Stobart goods train which goes all the way to the line end right up north with supermarket deliveries. It chunders past at about eight in the morning.

It then comes back about 4 in the afternoon so I'm told.

There are a couple of two carriage passenger trains during the day but from my memory of staying there you don't even notice them.

I don't think they have the dogs any more as they were not there when we stayed last year.

+1 to all that.

"waste deep snow" = frozen poo????

Sorry!! just struck me as a funny situation, as opposed to waist deep snow - brass monkey stuff!!

Breckie, they only get two significant trains a day

......S'pose it depends on what you mean by "significant" as I've usually to look both ways before crossing. Always seems to be a train shortly before or shortly after I cross....... :evil:

"waste deep snow" = frozen poo????

......eh no not really if you're "equipped" as they say. Mind you I don't know any mountaineers who wear a kilt in the winter. ......AND I've shot the spellchecker.

Edited 16 December, 201114 yr by Breckie

Yeti at the Cat this morning. (second highest pub in England for the unitiated)

CatCam:

http://www.maccinfo.com/cat/

Performed excellently. Other stuff including other 4 x 4s stuck or turning round. The Yeti just carried on.

The tyres are Dunlop Winter SP Sports on 16 in rims. All supplied new from a dealer for £600 and then a £15 set of trims from the local auto parts place. Finished off with Skoda stickers about a fiver off eBay.

Well happy with this setup

Briwy those are excellent snow photos! I'm jealous!

I have an issue, Because my car is a company lease car, we are only allowed to fit manufacturer recommended tyres. They do not allow winter tyres. Will they every make it compulsory to fit winter tyres in the UK?

Ahhh, I've also got a car (11-reg Superb Estate Elegance CR 170) that's on contract hire, from Lex Autolease, and when I phoned them last week to ask about fitting winter tyres on 16" steel rims in place of the 225/40 92Y tyres on the OEM 18" alloys the very nice young lady said it was entirely permissible providing I use tyres of the correct spec and refit the OEM rims and tyres before returning the car (which won't until March 2014!).

I've gone for 205/55/16 94V Conti TS830 tyres on 7J x 16" steel rims that I've ordered from my local Skoda dealer (Blade in Gloucester) - the tyres arrived from Oponeo yesterday (Monday 19th) and the rims should arrive tomorrow so hopefully by Thursday I'll be all kitted up ready!

HTH

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Martin

I'm currently in Bavaria en-route to Austria and it has been snowing lightly for the last two days.

In the UK on normal tyres I'd absolutely stuffed but with my 3D's.....not a problem.

You can the Yeti parked up here at our friend's house, but there is a steep 20 yard drive covered in compacted snow/ice and then 6 inches of crunchy fresh stuff. There is no way I could get up there in normal tyres but we just breezed up. I even stopped halfway up and started off again just to test it. Not even a hint of slip. The only time I can get it to slip is when I'm doing a three point turn over lumpy snow on full lock. Even then there is never a suggestion that it won't go. I am very, very impressed. God knows what the 4WD is capable of.

From our previous fall of snow and without its winter boots!

A few snow pictures from today, lucky as we went to Scotland for xmas thinking it would snow but on the 25th December it was 15'C, quite balmy...

On the way home we went through Glen Shee down towards Braemar and found some snow too. Not really deep but all the same it was white and cold.

Edited 29 December, 201114 yr by James I

Nice picture James, looks like fantastic scenery too.

Nice picture James, looks like fantastic scenery too.

Scenery is stunning in Scotland, this is the first time I have visited in winter though. This picture was taken just after the ski resort at Glen Shee, we took a detour on our home from Arberlour, however it was a big detour as we left at 9 am for St Helens and got home at 6 PM and just short of 400 miles covered! The blinkin' box on the roof murdered the fuel economy too, 35 mpg

Scenery is stunning in Scotland, this is the first time I have visited in winter though. This picture was taken just after the ski resort at Glen Shee, we took a detour on our home from Arberlour, however it was a big detour as we left at 9 am for St Helens and got home at 6 PM and just short of 400 miles covered! The blinkin' box on the roof murdered the fuel economy too, 35 mpg

We ran with a Thule soft box while on our European hols, averaged fill to fill between 35 and 44 (aprox) depending on the ebb and flow of traffic and type of road.

Oh like the photo; not got our current Monster near the white stuff yet and to be honest I hope it stays green :wonder:

TP