We were roused from post-prandial drowse by someone coming down the track. A car! With a Land Rover lurking at the quarry. The chap who emerged from the car turned out to be a man from Scottish Hydro looking for the Forestry Commission road down to the bridge. I pointed them in the right direction ("It's the Tanglewood road") and off they went.
I thought they might be confused because of our "new" road (e.g. if someone told them it was the xth road past such-and-such, that might now be wrong), but it turns out that it was just their map that was rubbish.
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Perhaps their GPS was rubbish!
No, it was their map - I saw it! It was an OS map that had been printed from a computer, with poor resolution (you could hardly read the house names on it, or see contour lines or burns).
GPSes often are rubbish. So far as I can recall, Diana's one had to be taught that our road existed and jollied along it until it had learned it.
Did they emerge safe and sound or are they still driving round in circles on the forest roads, and every so often being spooked by the birch tree circles hidden in the forestry commission straight rows...
Ursula
Hah. Well, they emerged, of course; but the woman in the GPS got a bit cross and tense.
They did indeed emerge. Last seen clinging to the tops of local distribution network pylons in Invergarry.
Actually, I meant Diana and Martin; but perhaps this string has got a little convoluted.
Nice mental picture there. Diana and Martin clinging to the top of the pylon- perhaps trying to spot the correct road to take?
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