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Using a crushed up docken leaf to treat nettle stings was much used in my childhood but very infrequently as an adult. Some of the trails we ride are festooned with nettles, big bastards, and brambles, Nature's barbed wire, and it's just what we have to put up with. Don't stop to look for docken...

Monday actually. Went for a ride up my nearest hill Benarty which is basically across the road from me. First time since December. Bike is 2021 Levo SL Expert Carbon. Hills to left of Trig point are 1st Bishop Hill, then West Lomond. Looking north over Loch Leven with West Lomond and Bishop...

Jeez, just realised where Lochan Na H-Earba is. About 30 years ago my wife and I MTBd in there to do the climb on Binnein Shuas called "Ardverikie Wall". We camped on the southern shore of Lochan Na H-Earba. In your 1st pic with Binnein Shuas to left of loch you can see, I think, the line of...

You seem to have got a nice dry day for it, when my mate and I did it decades ago, FFS, it pished rain all day. Mind you we've had lots of days climbing at the Etive Slabs, across the loch from Ben Starav, in blazing sunshine to compensate. Just don't mention Etive midges, they are vicious wee...

Think I spot Ben Starav and the Wee Buachaille, think the wee cottage at bend in road is down Glen Etive?