Z4-forum weekender: Applecross/Scotland - 18-20th May 2012!

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I forget why I like you lot

 

[cj_eds]

:rofl: Don't worry Nosa, it is actually a good photo of you. Honestly.

You'd better get home quick to see it before the mods remove it

 

[Anonymous]

Lol that pic turned out better than expected :rofl:

But where is Tentgate???

 

[a11y]

Tentgate got stuck in the upload process. F**king internet connection, managed a total of 46 photos uploaded between 8.20am and 6.30pm before crashing totally. I'm going to try again soon.

 

[Anonymous]

Had a look at the ones you have managed to upload so far on your Filkr page

 

[a11y]

Had a look at the ones you have managed to upload so far on your Filkr page

Cheers. Utterly randomly it decided to upload photo #113, photo #60, then photos #1-42. I'm going to abandon online stuff tonight and set off the uploader again later. Tentgate to follow, there's some great pics and I've even got the times each Tentgate photo was taken: first one we took was 15:27 (bearing in mind you said they'd been at it a while before), final photo at 18:32 - over 3hrs later :rofl:

 

[AndrewP]

I think the photos of tentgate have been infused with its spirit, so far you've tried for hours and abandoned the upload and are coming back for another go, do you need to ask for help from a woman who knows what she's doing? oke:

Someone broke the Internet this afternoon at about 4pm too, coincidence?

 

[a11y]

2 weeks later

Apologies folks, I had MAJOR internet issues trying to upload in the house. Partly because I upload them at full size as back-up, but mostly as my broadband speed is shocking here due to location. Ended up using my mates fibre optic broadband to complete the upload on Sat night...

A lot of my photos are similar to others already posted, so I'll just highlight a few - full 144 photos (cut down from 600+) here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a11y_m/sets/72157629985431938/

There's only one Nosa (thank f**k for that!) - L-R in the background: Chris (Blue), Andrew (AndrewP), Adam (Adamski) and Alan (Metal Licker):

2012-05-20 Applecross (4) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Enroute to Loch Carron (me NOT leading for once):

2012-05-20 Applecross (11) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Starting the climb up the Bealach Na Ba from Loch Carron:

2012-05-20 Applecross (17) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Spot the 4-pot:

2012-05-20 Applecross (19) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Apparently the road was snow-covered a week previously...

2012-05-20 Applecross (21) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Our prolific poster, Adamski:

2012-05-20 Applecross (34) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

We made it:

2012-05-20 Applecross (35) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Nosa explaining the sleeping arrangements in the tent Adamski and him were sharing:

2012-05-20 Applecross (38) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Applecross Bay:

2012-05-20 Applecross (44) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Wow:

2012-05-20 Applecross (54) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Mmmmmm curry:

2012-05-20 Applecross (58) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Well I ain't picking a fight with one of those:

2012-05-20 Applecross (61) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Well, maybe this one doesn't look so tough, yet...

2012-05-20 Applecross (62) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Near Sheildaig:

2012-05-20 Applecross (79) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

My transport for the weekend:

2012-05-20 Applecross (92) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Clockwise from top-left: Mick (GNH's passenger), Jack & Jackie (jaxz4), Andrew(P), Graham (GNH), James (JimmyPop), Adam(ski), Chris (Blue)

2012-05-20 Applecross (96) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

The Traitor among us (Malcz4):

2012-05-20 Applecross (101) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Are those Sainsburys burgers I can see?

2012-05-20 Applecross (105) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Err....

2012-05-20 Applecross (118) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Nosa-roll anyone?

2012-05-20 Applecross (119) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

L-R: Nosa, JimmyPop, Adamski, Malcz4, a11y-in-Fabia, Metal Licker, GNH, AndrewP, Blue, jaxz4

2012-05-20 Applecross (122) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Serious roads:

2012-05-20 Applecross (134) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

A healthy ///M:

2012-05-20 Applecross (137) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

Blue and Malcz4 on the A9:

2012-05-20 Applecross (143) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr


Tentagate to follow...

 

[metal licker]

Great pics ally..........worth the wait

 

[a11y]

Tentgate: 2 men, 1 women, 1 tent – how f**king long does it take to get an erection?

All times taken from camera data so should be accurate. TTE = Time To Erection...

3.27pm (TTE -185min, but apparently they’d been at it for over an hour already):

2012-05-20 Applecross (94) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

3.48pm (TTE -164min):

2012-05-20 Applecross (95) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

3.53pm (TTE -159min):

2012-05-20 Applecross (97) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

4.14pm (TTE -138min):

2012-05-20 Applecross (99) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

4.37pm (TTE -115min):

2012-05-20 Applecross (102) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

4.53pm (TTE -99min)

2012-05-20 Applecross (106) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

5.17pm (TTE -75min):

2012-05-20 Applecross (108) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

5.41pm (TTE -51min):

2012-05-20 Applecross (112) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

6.32pm - success!

2012-05-20 Applecross (115) by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

 

[cj_eds]

At tent-gate: :rofl: You didn't feel like helping a fellow Skoda driver A11y?

At the rest of the photos: I want to go to Applecross :headbang:

 

[Bing]

At tent-gate: :rofl: You didn't feel like helping a fellow Skoda driver A11y?

At the rest of the photos: I want to go to Applecross :headbang:

Thought exactly the same... Great, great pics A11y

Roll on 25th August :driving:

 

[Adamski]

Some cracking pics there a11y, almost worth the wait oke: :lol:

Just a shame that my 0.32 mbps broadband took an age to load them, then missed half the tentgate pics out :headbang: Will reload the pics another time

 

[gannet]

great photos a11y...

how long to put a tent up

 

[Adamski]

You can see the shadow angle on the last pic of tent gate, which shows the sun is nearly setting :lol:

They'd been at it for a while when we came back from coffee at around 3pm :rofl:

Oh dear

 

[a11y]

I think the tent was up, down, sort of us, totally down, removed from the campsite, unloaded again from rear of car, then finally successfully put up. Incredible. We gave them a nice big round of applause when it was finally up :lol:

 

[GNH]

Great pics Ally it was worth the (short) wait, well done.