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Forty-eight hours at the Lairig Leacach bothy — a typecast

Alex Roddie
Alex Roddie
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Forty-eight hours at the Lairig Leacach bothy — a typecast

In a departure from my usual form for trip reports, I’m writing this one up as a typecast — that is, scans of pages typed on a manual typewriter. I used an analogue camera to take all the photos on this trip so it feels appropriate. I hope you enjoy this (much-delayed) trip report of a soggy journey to Scotland. Note: you can click on the links below each page to display a full-size version.

Link: Balmoral trip report (January, not February!)






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Alex Roddie

Happiest on a mountain. Writer, story-wrangler, digital and film photographer. Editor of Sidetracked magazine. Machine breaker.

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