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Fjord
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Location: Lesjaskog, Norway
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 Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: Glensanda Super Quarry |
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This place is one of the remotest and hardest to reach industrial monsters that sit's on the west coast of Scotland.
Glensanda one of the largest quarry's in europe and very few people have heard of it let alone seen it up close.
So lastweek I decided to go see for myself what all the fuss was about.
A point to note is that there's no roads in or out of this place for many miles and all staff, materials, vehicles etc arrive and leave by boat including the huge amount of aggregates that are exported by massive bulk carriers to various destinations around the world to build roads... and things!
If you fancy going remember it's a long way to get to the starting point by car then your on your own to negotiate 7 or eight miles of very rough ground on a spectacularly remote coastal walk. Go prepared!
The size and scale of this place is mind blowing it's like a set out of a Sci-Fi set and this was just a fraction of the place where all the loading took place.
What eluded us was lying 1500 ft above us on the mountainside where the main quarrying takes place before it's dropped down a 1000 ft vertical shaft comicaly known as the "Glory Hole" to the crushing machines buried deep in the bowels of the mountain.
This will have to wait for another day as our legs were knackered with the rough walk in and we had to return by the same route so that put paid to any hill climbing for a better look. These pics don't do the place justice maybe someone else daft enough will get some better ones.
Standing at the far southern end of the operation amongst the scarred backdrop of the mountain stood this little castle oblivious to the monumental operation nearby.
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Alex Glass
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Location: Silverburn
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Double WOW! WOW!
Great find Fjord 
Nice one from our roving explorer 
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cybers
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Location: Livingston
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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Amazing .... Who Knew that was hiding there.
Don't think i fancy the trek in there myself.
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Scary
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:09 am Post subject: |
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Great stuff Fjord
I had never heard of it either  Cheers for the education
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