Trip to Scotland 1983: Four and half months in the Highlands and Islands

[DCampbell16B]

30p Dunstaffnage
£2.30 hostel [Glencoe]
70p folder

Wind shifted back S. Warm, very dull.

Allister Campbell of Airds
[phone number here]
(Campbell-Preston, brother-in-law, gave me his number, info, referred by Argyll)

Got number from very helpful man at Dunstaffnage.
Rain held off walking there. Started going away. Two rides to nearly Barcaldine. Got ride with truck to Ballachulish. Driver from Huntly? Knew a bit about Appin. Heavy rains and floods over road. 3 tiers of sheep getting wetter from rain and heavier in back. Walked Bridge to Hostel Glencoe.
[Missing pictures]
● Castle Stalker (very slow uphill)
● Sgurr na'Ciche, just after sun shine on it.

Long talk in evening w/ Canadian. NZ, Australian, English. Read Marg. Allingham.

[I'm surprised, looking at this entry, that I didn't add more about the sheep lorry ride. The driver crawled down the road at maybe 5 or 10 miles an hour. We were heading south on the A828. The rain was coming in sheets, and it was dark for what have must have been only mid-afternoon. But just as we got to that bend to the left as we got to Castle Stalker it cleared. I took a beutifully atmospheric picture (missing, of course, due to the camera failing). He saw my pipe case strapped to the top of my pack, and asked if that was in fact a pipe case. It turned out he was a piper, and that lead to a long discussion about piping. I told him I had had a chance to sit down and have a long talk with Ronnie MacCallum. He said he competed against Ronnie, which told me about the level of piper he was.]