Game: Name that road!

[classic33]

OK then. Another from some years back; the images in Google Maps were taken a bit earlier in the summer, but otherwise little has changed:

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Did they get much snow round there?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

My logic:

Shadow tells us this is the south side of an East/West loch, give or take.

It's a single track road, direct on the loch side.

There aren't very many candidates; aside from loch More above I can find only Loch Rannoch, Loch Earn, loch Tummel, and my original thought, loch Awe. None seem to fit.

It doesn't look like a sea loch, but I tried a few of those too. Nothing doing, but I thought I'd post this from loch Duich, just 'cos it's absolutely stunning.

 

[Mo1959]

OK then. Another from some years back; the images in Google Maps were taken a bit earlier in the summer, but otherwise little has changed:

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Loch Voil along from Balquidder?

 

[Aravis]

All good logic above, but no-one's particularly close yet. I can of course confirm it is in Scotland.

My original comment about the different season was merely intended to remind people that Streetview won't look identical. There was more spring freshness in the vegetation, but no snow on the hills.

A potentially big reveal to help move things along - it is a sea loch.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

All good logic above, but no-one's particularly close yet. I can of course confirm it is in Scotland.

My original comment about the different season was merely intended to remind people that Streetview won't look identical. There was more spring freshness in the vegetation, but no snow on the hills.

A potentially big reveal to help move things along - it is a sea loch.

It is not, I am nearly certain, Loch Scridain on Mull, but that road does have the right posts, which I have not seen elsewhere...

 

[slow scot]

Is it the head of Loch Fyne, looking up to Beinn Bhuidhe?

 

[Aravis]

It is not, I am nearly certain, Loch Scridain on Mull, but that road does have the right posts, which I have not seen elsewhere...

That's closer than other suggestions. Perhaps I ought to mention that wooden posts can't be expected to last forever...

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Gotcha

A884
https://maps.app.goo.gl/jKow9L4z6atvJvsg9

Can't locate the exact spot.

I now have a strong desire to tour all the lochside roads in Scotland!

 

[Aravis]

Well done @roubaixtuesday. Over to you, and that sounds like a fine ambition!

I think this is same lay-by as in my 1976 image:

This seems to be a relatively little-known corner of Scotland, yet the road above (as well as the one on the northern shore of the loch) leads to a Mull crossing, and I would think you could put together an excellent circuit starting from Fort William - get the nasty A82 bit out of the way first.

Across the water is Strontian where I spent my honeymoon.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Well done @roubaixtuesday. Over to you, and that sounds like a fine ambition!

I think this is same lay-by as in my 1976 image:

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This seems to be a relatively little-known corner of Scotland, yet the road above (as well as the one on the northern shore of the loch) leads to a Mull crossing, and I would think you could put together an excellent circuit starting from Fort William - get the nasty A82 bit out of the way first.

Across the water is Strontian where I spent my honeymoon.

I've driven to Lochaline for the Mull Ferry, so probably went along that road, but don't remember it. Alas, I've done little cycling around Scotland, always tempted by the mountaintops.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Name that road!

 

[ColinJ]

I thought that it (Aravis's Scottish view) looked vaguely familiar... I cycled down the road on the other side of the loch with my pal Carrie. Ride report HERE. A fantastic ride.

Across the water is Strontian where I spent my honeymoon.

Happy memories of this view...?

This seems to be a relatively little-known corner of Scotland, yet the road above (as well as the one on the northern shore of the loch) leads to a Mull crossing, and I would think you could put together an excellent circuit starting from Fort William - get the nasty A82 bit out of the way first.

My cycling-mad fit cousin lives in the area. He does this loop... Oban - ferry to Craignure on Mull, A849/A884, ferry to Lochaline, A884/A881 to Corran, ferry over to Bunree, A82/A828/A85 to Oban. Around 116 km (72 miles).

There are long stretches of cycle path between Bunree and Oban so a lot of the traffic can be avoided and Fort William bypassed altogether.

Nice options:

• Loop from Appin through Port Appin and eventually back to A828. Adds 10 km.
• Loop round end of Loch Creran instead of going over the bridge. Adds 8 km.
• B845 from Barcaldine - the climb over Gleann Salach and then round the side of Loch Etive to North Connel. Adds 7 km. This is NOT like a typical English B-road...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Connel to Oban over the small hills at Ardconnel and Barranrioch. Much nicer than the obvious route.

 

[Aravis]

Happy memories of this view...?
You've caught that well. I don't recognise that blue tinge in the sky, or the bright sparkling look out on the water.

My cycling-mad fit cousin lives in the area. He does this loop... Oban - ferry to Craignure on Mull, A849/A884, ferry to Lochaline, A884/A881 to Corran, ferry over to Bunree, A82/A828/A85 to Oban. Around 116 km (72 miles).

There are long stretches of cycle path between Bunree and Oban so a lot of the traffic can be avoided and Fort William bypassed altogether.

Nice options:

• Loop from Appin through Port Appin and eventually back to A828. Adds 10 km.
• Loop round end of Loch Creran instead of going over the bridge. Adds 8 km.
• B845 from Barcaldine - the climb over Gleann Salach and then round the side of Loch Etive to North Connel. Adds 7 km. This is NOT like a typical English B-road...

I was more thinking of a loop that crosses at Lochaline and back at Tobermory. There are of course infinitely many variations wherever you start from.

When I start to ponder these things, inevitably I'm soon expanding the scope massively to include the Outer Hebrides and probably Northern Ireland as well. I'm hoping to do a grand tour of the islands and the north west by car and tent later this year if the situation is favourable . I should be able to get some good material for this thread.

 

[ColinJ]

When I start to ponder these things, inevitably I'm soon expanding the scope massively to include the Outer Hebrides and probably Northern Ireland as well. I'm hoping to do a grand tour of the islands and the north west by car and tent later this year if the situation is favourable . I should be able to get some good material for this thread.

All of the Scottish islands are on my digital OS maps but those don't include N.I. I wouldn't recognise anywhere in N.I. except maybe a few views from Belfast. Obviously, Google Maps and Street View DO cover N.I. but I would miss the OS mapping. Still, N.I. IS in the UK so it IS included according to the rules.

 

[nickyboy]

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Name that road!

That hill in the distance looks very similar to one around here called Peaknaze. But that would position the road somewhere where there isn't a road like that I suspect there are a lot of hills of that shape