Yes, the mud flats were done by a guy from Dundee. Quite a long walk to get the western one. But definitely doable.
Sounds like a job for a fatbike!
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Veloviwer: Difficult explorer squares
(175 posts)- Started 4 years ago by stiltskin
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It's a shame the ride every tile site only has access to the Veloviewer public data. I've been to some of the "unvisited squares"
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I headed out to East Lothian on Sunday to pick up some squares. I have now almost completed East Lothian north of the A1. There's just one annoying square by Dunbar I missed and then a handful of possibly rock formations showing on the OS map.
So I am now in a place to answer the opening post in this thread. No.
I hit the square to the North East of Drem by going through the farmyard at the north western corner. What looks like a BMX track on the heat map is actually large MX track. The farm isn't discouraging anyone from going through. I ended up going back up to the farm and down the farm track to the west, although you could go along a field track just after getting into the square if like me you prefer not to double back.
I then followed my ride up with a trip into the Pentlands on Monday to increase my square to 14. Assuming the lockdown rules don't stop me my plan is now to get my cluster to 1000 by the end of the year.
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An excellent bit of exploration @acsimpson. Thanks very much!
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I have no idea what this thread is about but I like it.
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@iwrats
It is about squares
They are out there
But not always easy to find.
Bit like when you have one hill to climb but you need two OS Landranger maps to cover it
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@gembo, with squares though needing an extra "map" is always a good thing.
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I've changed the layers displayed on my VV activities map to the OS maps- which show the coastline at low tide more accurately. In addition to the 180 or so inland tiles I am missing, I need to go paddling in the Forth and mud snorkeling in the Eden and the Tay to meet my goal for the year of finishing off Fife.
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For this month's instalment I took a trip to some CX sections in Midlothian and got stuck the wrong side of a barbed wire fence by Loch Leven. I have however reached my end of year cluster goal of 1000 which I set myself sometime around September/October.
Time to start planning for next year.
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Wow! Nice work
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Latest low tide escapade with a pal last night- bagged a tile just South of the Braefoot oil terminal by waiting with beers for the lowest spring tide (0.24m) due at 10.09 last night. 100m scramble over seaweedy rocks and then a knee deep paddle into the firth to bag the tile.
I know I could get the tile by the ferry to Inchkolm Island, but this was far more fun...
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@dave Crampton formerly of these part# is often kayaking out to Inchcolm these days
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Nice work paddyirish. I take it you have both the beach squares at Burntisland?
While I'm here, does the panel have any tips for the square between Longniddry and Aberlady, containing the grounds of Gosford House? It doesn't appear to have a public road through it, and if it is all grounds of the house then access may be limited...
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“access may be limited“
Especially at THAT house.
Plus Covid.
Don’t know where ‘your’ square is, but there are ways in around here -
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I seem to have used the farm tracks south of the woods. Can't remember when or whether the situation has changed with regards access
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In normal times the house is occasionally open for tours.
The guided tour cost just under £10 each, I think. Was nice enough. The owners are...interesting...people, who you may or may not be comfortable giving £10 to (I realised this only after doing so).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Charteris,_13th_Earl_of_Wemyss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_FeildingI think the grounds are freely accessible on these days, but even if not, you should be able to get that square by cycling up to the house, U-turning in the car park and riding off again.
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Struth, where is Rasputin when you need him?
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I believe he really has gone.
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@frenchy, you say that but they hanged him, drowned him, poisoned him and shot him just to make sure.
What a cat.
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@fimm I briefly considered entering the Edinburgh Duathlon to get that square (even though I never run) but looks like it is sold out: https://toughrunneruk.com/events/edinburgh-duathlon/
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Strewth, that's a horrible website....
Cheers Frenchy, I'll give that a go.
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That square is accessible from the south. There are two tracks on the map one from Spittal and the one I chose, which is further west. From memory the track had newly planted trees along either side but was otherwise pretty unremarkable.
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I got some of the trickier squares at Auchencorth Moss this afternoon. Cycled out along the Moor Road towards West Linton, parked my bike here and then had a wander through the woods. Had to go out into the bog at the other side to get the trickiest one. Feet got soaked, but I think I'll live.
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Good work. I need to get back out and start bagging again. I've been stuck on 1000 for almost 3 months now.
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@frenchy did you see the funny towers and are they really part of a water pipe running from Peebles?
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Nice work Frenchy, will have to try these myself.
I got my first all water tile at the weekend the one East of Carlingnose Bay in NQ. Borrowed Mrs Paddy's new SUP (more of a KDP for me) and headed a few hundred meteres offshore.
Will probably use this for a few of the easier tiles in the Forth, but you won't catch me heading out into the middle on that.
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@gembo - No water pipe towers that I'm aware of.
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On the west linton moor road. Not like a water tower with water in it like a small tower rising out of the ground indicating where the water pipe is
Pillar on Harlaw Muir (other side of road from Auchencorth) at least five of them in a row and felt to be linked to the water conduit from Talla to Edinburgh
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Then yes, I saw those.
Did that conduit really go via Peebles?
Posted 3 years ago # -
No maybe not via Peebles I made an error, Tweedsmuir Talla I think
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