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White captions are hyperlinked, black ones provide mouseover ‘tooltips’, but who knows what a winter shot with snow might do to my colour scheme?
The main criteria for the choice of links are visibility in this view and sites I’m aware of, so I’m open to suggestion if anyone feels there’s something I’ve missed. :-)
Perhaps it was inevitable that the idea of making a web page from this ‘semi-aerial’ view of Kinlochleven from Creagan Sgiathan should come to me close to the shortest day of the year when Garbh Bheinn (top left) was blocking out the sun as it does in winter. But the lack of direct sunlight for the photo also inspired the happy idea of replacing it on a periodic basis and preserving the old shots to provide a kind of seasonal commentary, so I decided to carry on, make the page and stop worrying about all the shadow! (Sometime I’ll get a summer shot without Fly in the garden, but she’s quite unexpectedly been ashore for three out of the past four years.)
This panorama of the Mamores under snow was taken from the Penstock, where the conduit from the Blackwater Dam meets the pipes that carry the water steeply down to the hill to the Powerhouse. From left to right, the main peaks visible are Mullach nan Coirean (behind the tree), Stob Ban, Sgorr an Iubhair, Am Bodach, Stob Coire a’ Chairn (left of centre), Na Gruagaichean (right of centre), the South Top of Binnein Mor, Sgurr Eilde Beag and Sgurr Eilde Mor. What’s visible of Kinlochleven is largely obscured by deep shadow to the bottom left, but the viewpoint for the main photo above is basking in the sun above the obvious large crag to the right of that.
This second panorama was taken from Meall an Doire Dharaich, which is the rounded foreground hill to the right of the crag (Creagan Sgiathan) in the first one. The most obvious peaks, from left to right, are Garbh Bheinn (not to be confused with the famous Ardgour peak of the same name), the Pap of Glencoe, Beinn na Caillich (to the right of the Loch), Am Bodach, Stob Coire a’ Chairn and Na Gruagaichean, but keen eyes should also spot Beinn a’ Bheithir behind the Pap, Mam na Gualainn behind Beinn na Caillich and Mullach, Stob Ban and Sgurr a’ Mhaim behind Am Bodach.
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