Looking West along Loch Doilet near the west end. [spring]

Polloch river looking downstream from the Bailey bridge at the Loch outlet.

Strontian Village green-early morning. [Village greens are unusual in Scotland and are usually characteristic of planned villages. This I believe, along with some of the housing, the school etc. is part of a planned development of the 1960s  ]

Through the gate just before the Bailey bridge the burn from the Corrantee mine joins the the Polloch river. Here the old track [map of 1875] through Glen Hurich is shown crossing the burn on the way to Acharacle. I tried it trace its beginnings, but as Gandalf said, “the land is much changed” and I soon gave up in a wilderness of bog and tussock grass. If you examine the bed of the burn you will see under and embedded in the stones large fragments of very hard black wood. This must represent some torrential event when a mixture of rock and fallen timber was washed down from the corrie above.

The town centre - Polloch. OK there are a few dwellings scattered about including two interesting survivors  of the Norwegian designed timber houses built in various parts of Scotland to meet the post war housing shortage.[I should be happy to be corrected on this if wrong.]  

View looking NE on leaving the oak woods

Heading for the mine. Just about to leave the woods.

Entrance to a mine adit with emerging stream.

The dressing floors where the lead ore was separated from the crushed rock.

A closer view of the adit.

Looking over the Clashgorm and Whitesmith mines, part opencast and part deep mining, a source of mineral samples for collectors. Ben Reisipol just visible top right.

A stretch of the “lost road” in Glen Hurich looking west.

Natural regeneration on the track East of Glen Hurich cottage.

The slow and reedy reach of the river Polloch as it enters Loch Shiel

Part of the Polloch woods made much more attractive by “bad” management.

In a mini gorge beside the path, brown water draining from the peat hags above, flowing over massive granite, and a couple of bushes that have managed to survive the sheep’s attentions.

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