Johnnywr wrote:
Callum, I have been to Loch Rannoch, or rather, above it. The only "munro" (you know, those Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet), I ever managed to climb was, Schiehallion, which stands at the eastern end of Loch Rannoch. It was a nightmare and I realized I`m not cut out for any kind of hill walking :? . Still, the view from the top was breathtaking.
I suffer from a fear of heights, and I was a bit shaky (and knackered), but the view from the top made it all worthwhile.
I actually have a story about Loch Rannoch... and about how Ordnance Survey maps can be dangerously outdated.
When I was younger, we went to Loch Rannoch a lot at Christmas. One year we decided to go hill-walking in the mountains opposite Schiehaillon. We climbed loads of steps, and eventually reached these ruins, like castle foundations. At this point, we took out our Ordnance Survey map - the most up to date one for the area. We saw on the map, that if we continued up and turned left at an S-bend, we would be on a path that takes us straight to a huge dam. We got to the S-bend, but there was no left fork, so we did what seemed like the most sensible thing to do, and followed the road to the right. We walked along the road for 2-3 hours. Every time we got to a bend, we would say "If there's no dam around the bend, we'll turn back.", but we didn't, until we had walked for several hours. By the time we got back to the S-bend, it had started to get dark. We examined the side of the bend where the fork should have been, and discovered the remnants of a path. What the map had showed as a full path, had actually collapsed, and it had happened years ago, because the remnants of the path were covered in grass. The moral of the story is: Ordnance Survey maps can be very outdated in areas that don't have a very large population count :lol:.
As for fears of heights, I am kinda the same. My fear is strange though, I can ride an elevator nearly 400ft to the top of the Blackpool Tower, stand on a glass floor and lean on a glass wall, then climb a narrow staircase to the next level (which is outdoors) during 30mph gusts of wind; yet I can't ride a roller coaster that sits at 200ft for less than a second!
Good luck with your sculpting. Just take it easy, don`t worry about taking your time or trying different methods as you go along. You might find a way that suits you better and if that`s the case, go for it :-)
Thanks. I've started a side project (Named project 2. Very inspired name :lol: ) it's main purpose is to find a way of sculpting that suits me and practice it. It may form the basis of my next world if I don't mess it up.
