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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Lisa Dusseault wrote: > Would it solve all these use cases if we provided a "Source: <url>" > header? Would Content-Location header be appropriate for this purpose? The Content-Location entity-header field MAY be used to supply the resource location for the entity enclosed in the message when that entity is accessible from a location separate from the requested resource's URI. > The job of the server is then to take the Source resource, apply the > patch body, and save it at the destination (the request URI). I'd > probably define this so that if the Source header were missing, then > the Request URI is both the source and the destination. Sounds like a too complicated task for a web server, especially if source URI points to a different server. Also opens a nice door for "outsourcing" DoS attacks. If a server supports patching "local" objects only, how can it indicate that? > Would anybody else find this useful? It would be nice to see a real use case for that feature. > Bear in mind that I'm not trying to solve all use cases. Narrow use > cases are a great thing to actually make progress and get to standard. > This may be one of the situations where it's pretty safe to extend the > use cases and functionality but we'll see. For a given scope, starting with a minimal but extendible functionality is ideal, of course. IMHO, if you think Source URI or equivalent feature can be added to your core PATCH protocol without core modifications, then do not add it. Let others document that extension when/if needed! If core modifications are required, then it becomes a question of either protocol scope or protocol extensibility. Alex. > On Apr 28, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Justin Chapweske wrote: > > > o I'm concerned that the provided use cases for PATCH is a bit too > > narrow and the system may not be flexible enough to encompass > > future use cases. > > > > For example, it may be desirable to create a new file that is the > > combination of the PATCH request body and a totally different > > resource, rather than patching a file in place. > > > > Another possible use case is that it may be desirable to have the > > patch body retrieved from a third-party URI rather than embedded > > directly in the request. > > > > Of course, at a quick blush you could simply say that these cases > > are out of scope. But, I think it is worth thinking deeper about > > the problem space to see if an even more generic solution doesn't > > arise.Received on Wednesday, 28 April 2004 18:43:28 UTC
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LOS ANGELES (AP) The story of Jesus Christ is coming to virtual reality for the first time.
Autumn Productions and VRWerx announced plans Wednesday to release the live-action film "Jesus VR The Story of Christ" on all major VR platforms this Christmas.
The 90-minute movie will depict such events as Jesus' birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection in 360 degrees. "Jesus VR" was filmed in 4K resolution on location in Matera, Italy.
The movie will be available for rent or purchase for VR systems such as Samsung Gear, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive
The film is directed by David Hansen and stars Tim Fellingham as Jesus. "The Passion of the Christ" executive producer Enzo Sisti is among the producers.
VRWerx previously created a VR game based on the "Paranormal Activity" film franchise.

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In the digital age, resisting the urge to appease our curiosity as humans is almost impossible. We don't want to see one cute cat photo, we want to see all the cute cat photos. We don't watch one episode of a streaming series, we watch them all. David Farrier, a reporter from New Zealand with a passion for the odd corners of culture and what creates them, cannot resist investigating a strange video purporting to be from a competitive tickling league when the new film Tickled unassumingly begins. Farrier is researching the video for a story, but he soon discovers something far more complex—not to mention creepy–than he ever imagined.
Shortly after his initial report on the competitive tickling league goes viral, Farrier attempts to contact the company responsible for the video for additional information. The company declines, but Farrier's attempts to learn more persists, and soon the seemingly professional interaction he's having with the mysterious business takes a turn for the strange. The company still turns him down, but it does so by making fun of Farrier's sexual orientation, which only further intrigues the seasoned reporter. Farrier then recruits Tickled co-director Dylan Reeves to help him capture his investigation, and the pair set off on a globe-spanning journey that slowly uncovers a world of fetishism and bullying that has never previously been captured on film.
Tickled is lot of fun when the story begins, and Farrier himself seems to be amused by the strange world of tickling he's begun to discover, but as he and Reeves learn more about the company behind the initial video things take a turn for the criminal that is both bizarre and incredibly disturbing. I don't know what Farrier planned to find when he initially began exploring the competitive tickling league, but it's probably safe to say it's not what is ultimately captured in this documentary. Very few people know anything about the entity creating the videos, and of those involved that Farrier and Reeve are able to identify very few have anything they wish to say on record. To say anything more would be to say too much, as the real story of Tickled is something that deserves to be witnessed while knowing as little about the world the filmmakers have chosen to explore. They knew nothing going in, and the film works best if the same can be said for the viewer.
Farrier and Reeve are careful to stay on topic throughout the film without making all tickling fetishists out to be criminals, freaks, or wrongdoers in any way. There is a genuine sense of curiosity to their every move, and like all good investigators they seek guidance and understanding in people more well-versed on the subject than themselves. Some offer insight in the mystery of the company harassing Farrier, while others enlighten the audience to the world of tickling. Even Farrier himself submits to a proper tickling experience (though whether or not a complete video of this act exists online is something I haven't built up the courage to add to my Google search history).
Ripe with mystery and intrigue, Tickled is one of the best documentaries in years, if not of all time. Filmmakers David Farrier and Dylan Reeve have crafted a taut and endlessly compelling investigative feature that is as gripping as any true crime story could hope to be, and in the process they have pulled back the curtain on one of the internet's more peculiar communities without pulling or throwing a single punch. The fact this movie even exists is a miracle, and that it will soon be available for mass consumption is almost impossible to believe. That said, it deserves to be seen, and if we're lucky there will be many more films like it produced in the coming years. Tickled sets a new standard for investigative journalism in film, and it does so with such vigor that it's hard to imagine anyone walking away unchanged by the experience.


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The Lyrid meteor show roughly falls from 16-25 April each year. The peak in this period will generally coincide with a time when the moon is at its dimmest – allowing the meteoroids to be seen more clearly. This will happen on Sunday 22 April in 2018, which also happens to be Earth Day.
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Voice Activated Commands in Blend.
Most folks whom know me would agree I am quite lazy at times. This being true, I've discovered a product which will help me out to become even lazier.
Voice Activated Commands is a product which retails for $18 USD and what it enables you to do is type in a text like "mossyblog" and then assign it to a shortcut.
The real reason I got this, was that when I'm on a plane or in a cramped environment, the mouse options at times is a pain in the butt, that and I can never really remember most Keyboard Functions off by heart. Words I can.
You can setup VAC with any program, and Microsoft Blend is one of them. I use this application for Microsoft Blend, Adobe Photoshop and Hexagon.
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HTC hopes of regaining its profit with the upcoming HTC 10 that kicks off preorder in US, UK and Australia.
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It is assumed the HTC 10 may arrive in Australian market on May 3. Off contract and unlocked the smartphone is priced tagged $1,080 AU.
Those who has subscribed to Three need to pay an upfront of £49 in the UK on a plan that costs £38 per month.
In the new device the HTC Sense interface is simplified and it is much closer to a stock Android. The camera resolution has been improved too with a leap forward in quality. It comes with a wider aparture on primary as well as secondary camera.
The HTC 10 is a beautiful smartphone with elegant looks, internal power and effective software.
The quality of speakers has also been improved. It comes with dual Boom Sound speakers.
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This post is kind of a thought piece and is only very tangentially related to VDO so you might want to move on if you're were hoping for something more on point.
Last night ABC TV's (in the USA) Primetime aired a piece on the actor Daniel Baldwin and his latest attempt to rehabilitate himself from his apparently very long-term addiction to cocaine. For whatever reasons, Daniel let the ABC cameras be turned on him while he spent several months in a $50,000 a month rehabilitation facility in Malibu California and also while he went through various criminal court proceedings on drug-related charges as well as him going on a movie location shoot. The ABC report also delved into his relationships with his family a little bit, especially mentioning Daniel's also famous actor brothers.
For those who don't know who Daniel is, he was one of the stars of the highly-regarded US TV series 'Homicide: Life On The Street'. Daniel played Detective Beau Felton and left the show well before VDO did his Emmy-nominated guest appearance in the H:LOTS episode 'The Subway'.
Felton was not a very popular character on Homicide. He was not meant to be pretty or brilliant or particularly likeable. But Daniel played Felton well, figuring out how to balance Felton's repellant qualities and the character's downward spiral with a sprinkling of humanity that would cause you to soften your initial negative judgment of his worth. That certainly takes some skill on the part of an actor and Daniel Baldwin proved he had the talent to find just the way to play that character.
I for one learned to like the Felton character enough to write a short piece of fan fiction a few years ago that would allow me to combine the Felton character and that of Ned Beatty's perfectly archetypical cop Detective Stanley Bolander with Detectives Goren and Eames of Criminal Intent fame and play around with some ideas I had into what has turned out to be a not utterly embarassing piece of writing that lingers on the 'net in the archive of the excellent peer-reviewed fan fiction site Apocrypha (for those who care to read it see "What It Feels Like For A Girl").
Frankly of the four established characters I was writing for, Felton was the most difficult to make believable and consistent with what most Homicide fans would know about him and yet not appear as a simple strawman or too stereotypically the 'bad boyish cop'. I don't think I succeeded totally capturing the complexities of Felton but at some point you have to put an end to a story for it to be published. So you could say I carried the idea of Felton and my conceptions about around in my head for quite some time.
So it was with more than a little interest that I tuned into watch the Daniel Baldwin piece.
In that story I wrote of Felton:
"The younger man is somewhat burly and boyishly attractive, but Goren notes that excess is taking its toll on those inherent good looks and prematurely aging the man".
You can imagine that my description pretty much fits Daniel Baldwin the man as much as and maybe more so than it fits Felton, especially as he appeared before ABC's cameras.
At this point in the Primetime show I was utterly hooked into watching in the same way that I was initially hooked into watching VDO's film 'Guy', the story of a relatively ordinary and average man who lets a strange woman filmmaker turn the camera on him to make her next movie. 'Guy' to me is a watershed moment in filmmaking not only because it predicts the rise of 'reality' television in our culture but because it plays around with the idea that the act of turning a camera on someone causes them to alter their personality and become someone other than they normally would be. Maybe this isn't acting in the professional sense of the word but it could be called posing or persona building.
The thing that makes a movie like 'Guy' different from a 'reality' program like Primetime is that it is 100% clear to me that 'Guy' is a character being made by Vincent D'Onofrio and being masterfully fashioned into an utterly average guy trying to figure out on the fly who to be before a camera and in the process not only distorting his own identity but how he relates to the films few other characters. I can't say enough good things about how brilliant D'Onofrio's performance in 'Guy' is, how I am haunted by it when I think of it and how I find much more to thoughtfully consider in it every time I actually watch the film.
Anyhow the 'Daniel Baldwin' in front of the Primetime camera struck me as less of a real person and more of a character like 'Guy' as the camera rolled on. The TV program does give some glimpses of a person in real pain but there are also moments when we see Daniel trying out being an actor, trying out being a contrite defendant, trying out being a part of a family, trying out being religious. You are left at the end of the hour wondering how much of what you saw was due to drugs, how much was due to his fear of being incarcerated, how much was an actor trying to suss out what his audience wanted at any given moment and how much was the actual human being underneath all of the layered-on roles.
I looked at the comments on Primetime's website after the broadcast and found that the comments about 'Daniel Baldwin' were very mixed but one comment lead me to what is purported to be Daniel's MySpace page. I found the possibility of 'Daniel Baldwin' having a MySpace page both intriguing and repellant.
I should mention that a few years ago after an experience I had online at a Yahoo! group purporting to have had the actual Vincent D'Onofrio as one of its members that my opinion of celebrities who venture online into public fora and with no intermediation from others is inclined to be negative and mistrusting. You can read about my experiences elsewhere on my blog if you choose to (just search on 'DASH').
But given my viceral reaction to the similarities of Felton as I envisioned the character and the 'Daniel Baldwin' of Primetime, I felt compelled to go to the MySpace page. I went there not taking for granted the fact that the page's author might not be the actor I have seen on fictional or 'reality' TV.
I have read every entry at 'Daniel's' blog at MySpace and I can say that I am now more thoroughly concerned confused and repelled by what I saw. Again 'DB' or 'Deebs' as the author calls himself is by turns misogynistic, angry, despairing, flippant, profane, insecure, self-absorbed, meek, playful, despondent, conflicted and contradicts much of what was said in the Primetime program. If anything "Deebs" is far more villainous, self-destructive and frightening to me than I would have imagined the character Felton to be (and if you read my story you will see that I only have the Felton character drinking heavily, hitting on women while he is still married, and utilitizing the services of a prostitute). That confuses and bothers me in a way I cannot adequately express but I also accept that it is not up to me to do anything about it other than to not encourage "Deebs" to make a spectacle of himself.
If I were his lawyer I would demand that the MySpace page be taken down: If it is *the* Daniel Baldwin writing the page there are admissions that could be used against him in court (not to mention calls into question what was said before Primetime's cameras) and if it isn't some of what is said potentially defames a whole panoply of people. But the one thing that seeps through the entire MySpace blog is that there is a troubled person behind the writings even though the medium of a MySpace page further distorts the true identity of the author and may pile on some more roles, poses and personas that have to be stripped away from who 'Daniel Baldwin' and/or 'Deebs' truly is/are.
I only know that whoever all these people may be, they are beyond my very limited capacity to help them. I also have confirmed why as a rule I choose not to watch 'reality' television. Unlike my experience of the film 'Guy' where I know I am dealing with an invented premise and characters, with 'reality' programming, I don't believe the picture represents reality anymore than Salvador Dali painted with absolute fidelity the world around us. If I want to ponder alternate realities I can choose a good piece of fiction like a Phillip K. Dick story or I can daydream.
But I fear for a world where this sort of 'reality' television and unfettered access to the well-known via the Internet is considered to be a healthy diversion or a legitimate form of entertainment.
Anyway if 'Deebs' or his people should stumble upon this blog post this song is for you and all the complexity within and around you. I hope for your sake and for those who know and love you that you have an ending at least as upbeat as the one Primetime wanted to attach to its report on you. I also hope that with what you've done on TV and online that if you can't redeem yourself, you help one other person who is similarly situated.
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The Official SobekPundit Blogger Interview: Thomas Sowell March 24, 2015Posted by Sobek in News.
Howdy, folks. I have a real treat for you all today. Much to my amazement, I actually got the opportunity to interview Pulitzer Prize winning economist Thomas Sowell. I've long admired his insightful work, so I can't really express how excited I am about this. I should add that for no real reason at all, I wanted to start the interview with the following citation from the Book of Revelation:
And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was in heaven a silence which lasted about the space of half an hour. And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
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- 1. Sobek - March 25, 2015
Sorry, everyone. My bad.
- 8. Sobek - March 25, 2015
Brew, I overheard Paul saying that to Death, once, and Death got all sulky and pouty. Between you, me, and the wall, Death can be a real drama queen.
- 9. Sobek - March 25, 2015
You know what, I don't like the name Mouserat for a heavy metal band. I need a new band name, and definitely one that fits with my drawing up there.
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In my defense, I'm really bad at chess.
- 18. gengap - March 29, 2015
I hope the bishop doesn't read your blog. Or your kids or your wife, either.


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Igbo Presidency: VON DG, Osita Okechukwu Backs Okorocha
The Director-General, Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has aligned himself with Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha that Nigeria President of Igbo extraction would only be possible by 2023.
Okorocha had declared that "What I do know is that Ndigbo should talk about President after President Muhammadu Buhari.
Addressing party faithfuls at the registration and revalidation center of All Progressives Congress (APC), Iwollo Oghe, Ezeagu Local Government Area, Enugu State, Okechukwu commended Okorocha for taking the position.
"My dear brothers and sisters, I commend His Excellency, Owelle Rochas Okorocha for his historical pronouncement that we should support President Buhari and wait for 2023.
"He was not sentimental and parochial; he looked dispassionately on the political terrain and realities on the ground. I have never seen Owelle think as deep and wax strategic as he did for our people," Okechukwu declared.
"He is neither a member of the APC nor PDP or to the best of my knowledge any other political party of note, yet he arrogates himself the powers to determine who gets what, when and how."
Going further Okechukwu said, I share the view that, "in political domain there is the law with its legal teeth and the convention with its moral weight, the political convention today in Nigeria which the ex-president is a prime beneficiary states – rotation of President – South 8 years and North 8 years – we stand by that convention.
"Since our entry into the Fourth Republic in 1999, we supported Obasanjo, the South West by extension, we supported Jonathan, South South by extension, now that Ndigbo has resolved to support Buhari, we are hopeful of 2023.
"Luckily President Buhari is laying a solid foundation and infrastructural base for prosperity and progress of our fatherland."
When asked about Buhari's age and rumoured sickness, Okechukwu retorted, "there is a local parlance in my place which says that, many a time women maybe waiting for the old dry tree to fall for their firewood and to their dismay the young luxuriant tree falls. Mr President is hale and hearty and most importantly our life is in Almighty God's hand."


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May 13, 2014
From May 19 through May 23, Lewis & Clark Information technology presents the 2014 Faculty Technology Institute, a fun-filled week dedicated to exploring the intersections of technology with teaching and research. Each day at 12:45 we have a general session on educational technology topics of broader interest. These sessions require no registration, and are open to the campus community. Please consider joining us for one or all of these sessions:
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Pointers To Enhancing Your Golf Swing
Relax and unwind by playing golf sports. Golf has been for a long time associated with the rich and mighty. Every person from various backgrounds can play golf just like everyone else today. If you have passion and drive you will make it big in golf sports. You might realize that golf requires you as the player to have a strong swing that is guaranteed to score you points especially in competitive golf sports. To get a strong grip that would guarantee you a win you need to follow the guide in this article.
If you got a bad grip you could lose power and distance. You should know that your lower body is supposed to move first from the top and not hands and arms. To ensure a strong swing that would result in better throws you should check on the early release with an airflow ball under your armpits.
In golf sports, bad grips could cost you a lot. Before the golf swing, you need your hands to swing first to achieve maximum distance. Your thumbs should on the top of the grip with the butt end across the palm. On the power front, a stronger grip can assist. By making the three knuckles visible on the upper hand to help create the draw spin needed, you would make the ball go further.
The major culprit to lack of power is the poor body turn and shoulder movement on the backswing. To solve this problem you need to turn your chest away from the target with your left shoulder tilted down towards the ground. You should feel your weight move into your right heel as your wrists hinge. Having a poor body turn and backswing could interfere with your power and distance.
You need to resist the downswing issues by starting your downswing with your lower body. Poor body turn could be caused by too much arm swing in the downswing. You'll produce less power if you'd generate more arm swings. To increase power and hit the ball further, your arms should follow the body's lead.
By separating the lower and upper halves of your body your arms would swing faster through the impact.
While throwing the ball you are required to release it in the right way to enhance your power. To know that you are releasing the ball early you should know when the airflow ball falls out. To the start of the follow-through you should try to keep the club head as far away from your lead shoulder.


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The photography and film program aims to teach children to document their daily lives and Mundo Art activities, creating environments of candid images. The photography program will run weekly for one hour per week.
Mundo Art will host monthly projections and exhibitions of the photography and art produced by the students of the program. Mundo Art will also publish the works on the web, to give international exposure to the creations of its children. A yearly photography book will also be produced, featuring original texts by the community children.


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The Hotel
Sometimes at boutique hotels you can feel on top of each other, but not here – this hotel has a lot of space. There are 19 rooms, and each has a private terrace. So even when it's fully booked, you almost feel like you're the only one here.
The Vibe
This is not your party crew. People are here to eat well (they have a popular five-course menu), spa, and get away from it all. Wake up to the sound of horses and roosters. Walk around and inhale the aroma of almond and orange trees. Don't bother changing out of your dressing gown and slippers; you're here to relax!
The Rooms
The highlight here is the size, which are reasonably sized for doubles and large for suites. Décor is basic, but bright and clean – and in some cases, the outside terrace space is almost as big as the room itself. You won't be trying to find room service menus on the TV (good for the environment, we know, but a hassle nonetheless): here, all menus are clearly printed and visible. Wines, cocktails, snacks, dinner – whatever you need, they'll get it to you. Rooms have speakers – not ones that link into your bluetooth, but that's okay – here it's less about tech, and more about unplugging.
Food and Drink
The restaurant here is great Med fare that's reasonably priced. They have a large cellar and extensive wine/Champagne list. Breakfast is until 11:30 and dinner until 11.
The staff here are happy! You don't see that every day. Overall too, you definitely feel like pricing is fair – at the spa, for room service, in the mini bar – which is refreshing in Ibiza, and makes you want to come back. Rooms even seem reasonable, when you take into account that breakfast and the spa (excluding treatments) is included. They have horseback riding and other activities, too, should you feel like being active.
Anything Else
The hotel is right up the street from Las Dalias, which is good for at least a stroll and mojito. If you want to go into Ibiza town, it's close to a €50 charge one way, so renting a car is a good idea. If you don't feel like going out, but want to order in, ask at reception and they'll arrange it for a minimum fee. Walk around the grounds – the cacti and vegetation are worth a look. The spa is a local draw, and has a hammam, sauna, and indoor, outdoor and plunge pools, so get involved. Book in advance for the best rates, and check for last minute offers.


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Under the Weather
Under the Weather
Why is Scotland such a good training ground for much higher mountains? Perhaps because an average winter day in Scotland offers more adventure than a week of storms anywhere else.
Simon Richardson
It was past two in the afternoon, blowing hard and snowing heavily. Roger climbed up to the stance and we took stock. Attempting a new route up the crest of Mitre Ridge, deep in the Scottish Cairngorm Mountains, we were battling on in a rising storm. It had taken six hours to climb the first three pitches. Scottish winter days are short, and we had less than three hours of daylight, but the line was just too good to give up. Logical and elegant, a succession of steep corners and unclimbed turfy grooves slotted together like a jigsaw puzzle all the way up the spine of the ridge.
I took the rack and continued straight up the crest, grateful that Roger had insisted I take a Warthog, as this was the only protection at one particularly awkward bulge. The natural winter way was a steep, right-facing corner that had accumulated a huge quantity of powder snow. The crack at its back was devoid of turf, so I liebacked up it on torqued ice tools with my crampons skating on the smooth rock. I badly misjudged it near the top and was on the point of falling when I found a crucial foothold. Panting heavily, I pulled on to the platform above just as the rope came tight. The next pitch was the last difficult one. I struggled up a steep corner, hand traversed on wilting arms to the crest of a tower, and stumbled in the gloom along the sharp ridge to belay in a col below a second tower. By the time Roger arrived it was dark and the urgency of the last few hours dissolved into the icy blackness.
Six hours later, we had finished the route and I trailed head down behind Roger as he kept us on the correct bearing. Conditions on the plateau were extreme, with gale-force winds and blinding spindrift. Our world was limited to the pools of light from our headtorches and the ever-shifting snow around our feet. We counted our paces to track our progress against the map and shouted out every hundredth step into the screaming wind. When we bumped into a prominent boulder we'd passed on the approach, the relief was immediate. We stumbled back down the glen and, elated, collapsed into our tent after 22 hours on the move.
Our ascent of The Cardinal on Beinn a'Bhuird was typical of many Scottish winter adventures. The 200-meter-long route had seven pitches of sustained mixed climbing, but technical difficulty was just one aspect of the experience. The 16-kilometer approach, the eight-hour winter day, the wild and unpredictable weather, and difficult navigation all provided equally important ingredients to the challenge. Overall it was more like doing a major alpine route than climbing on a minor crag.
The Scottish Winter Experience
During the summer the Cairngorms are a range of grassy, flat-topped hills, but like the rest of the Scottish Highlands they are transformed in winter and take on a seriousness way out of proportion to their size. Their summit plateaus collect huge quantities of snow that are swept by the prevailing westerly winds into deep-sided corries that were carved out by glaciers long ago. Their granite cliffs are cracked and vegetated and made for on-sight climbing. The cracks take protection readily and frozen turf has the consistency of plastic ice. When conditions are good, ice dribbles down corners, and powder snow and hoarfrost transform the dark granite walls and buttresses into white-frosted fantasy castles.
Scotland is a small country and more than half the landscape is mountainous. The mountains range from the rolling schist hills of the Southern Highlands to the spectacular sandstone summits of the Northwest Highlands. The Central Highlands comprise the rugged volcanic peaks around Glen Coe and Ben Nevis, while the Cairngorms lie in the center of the country and include the highest group of mountains in Scotland. The Hebrides Islands on the western seaboard are mountainous, too, and in a hard winter they can give spectacular climbing overlooking the sea. Most of these areas are accessible from Glasgow or Edinburgh in less than three hours, and are within weekend range of the English cities. On a good day during February and March the popular areas can take on a cosmopolitan air, and you are as likely to meet a climber from Slovenia or Spain as you are someone from Glasgow or Manchester.
Unlike the Alps, very little fixed gear is found on Scottish cliffs, and bolts are shunned. Every route you climb is like doing a first ascent. Protection has to be placed on the lead, and belay spots can sometimes take half an hour to find. On the harder routes, three-hour leads of 30-meter pitches are common, as the leader fights to clear the rock to find gear placements. This ground-up approach maximizes the challenge of the cliffs, and the harder routes are always a race against time and the short winter day. Most ascents are made in weather where, in the Alps, you would not consider leaving the valley. The wind blows almost continuously, and it is often raining in the glens and snowing on the tops. Despite modern clothing and materials, one is nearly always damp. On longer routes a single push is far more effective than a multi-day ascent, as the weather is too poor to consider bivouacking. The subarctic climate is unforgiving, and it is always better to stay moving rather than stop.
It is the mental dimension that makes Scottish winter climbing so compelling. Solving the frozen puzzle of leading a pitch and finding protection is one aspect, but predicting conditions and selecting an appropriate route is the underlying challenge. Conditions change daily, and historically the most successful Scottish winter climbers have not been the strongest or most technically gifted, but those who have the knack of being in the right place at the right time. While many Scottish climbs are reliably in condition most winters, others take a particular sequence of events?snowfall, wind, thaw, and freeze?to form, and many climbers will wait years for their chosen route to come into condition.
A Brief History
Scottish winter climbing has a long history. The Victorians pioneered winter ascents of the great 500-meter-high ridges on Ben Nevis before the end of the 19th century, using long, unwieldy alpenstocks, clinker-shod laborers' boots, and short lengths of hemp rope. Even today, Tower Ridge (IV, 4, 1894) and Northeast Buttress (IV, 5, 1896) are respected climbs, with the latter sporting a short M4 crux near the top of the route. Step-cutting skills advanced, and Harold Raeburn took ice-climbing levels to WI3 levels with his ascent of Green Gully (IV, 4) on Ben Nevis in 1906. Fifty-odd years went by before ice-climbing standards advanced significantly, when Jimmy Marshall and Robin Smith brought step-cutting to its pinnacle in 1960 with a magnificent series of ascents on Ben Nevis, culminating in the first free ascent of Point Five Gully and the 400- meter-high Orion Direct (V, 5). These climbs were the preserve of the elite. Marshall and Smith wore crampons, but step-cutting was still a slow, dangerous, and exhausting process, where a short axe was used to cut a ladder of handholds and steps in the ice. Further east, on the powder-covered rock of the Cairngorms, Tom Patey used nailed boots and a single axe to push mixed climbing standards up to M5 levels with Eagle Ridge (VI, 6, 1953); Parallel Buttress (VI, 6, 1956) on Lochnagar; and Scorpion (V, 6, 1952) on the Shelter Stone Crag.
Throughout the 1970s, the "curved axe revolution" advanced standards on ice, mainly on Ben Nevis. British climbers, well practiced on Nevis ice, applied their skills to great effect in the Alps and elsewhere. Perhaps the best example is the Colton-Maclntyre Route on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses (ED3, 1976). This very narrow couloir, Scottish in character, was undoubtedly the hardest ice climb in the Alps at the time. Another example was the application of Nevis-style thin face climbing to the north face of the Pelerins (ED2) by Rab Carrington and Al Rouse in February 1975. Toward the end of the decade, however, the focus began to slowly turn back toward mixed climbing, and during the early 1980s the art of "torquing" was developed. Mountaineers have jammed axe picks into rock cracks for centuries, but ironically it was the reversed curve "banana" picks, developed on the Continent for steep ice climbing, which proved to be perfectly suited to the technique of levering shafts to cam picks in narrow cracks. The vegetated cliffs of the Cairngorms are ideal for this type of climbing, for the deep cracks and rough rock hold the picks well, and there is a liberal supply of turf on all but the very steepest routes.
During the mid-1980s, the Aberdeen-based team of Colin MacLean and Andy Nisbet forged one of the strongest partnerships in the history of Scottish winter mountaineering. The bulk of their new routes were in the Cairngorms, but their first Grade VIII was away from home territory, some 100 kilometers to the west, in Glen Coe. Their winter ascent of the prominent corner line of Unicorn (VIII, 8) in Stob Coire nan Lochan in January 1985 proved controversial, as local climbers doubted whether a hoarfrosted ascent really counted as true winter conditions. The line of Unicorn occasionally forms as a thin ribbon of ice, but MacLean and Nisbet were applying Cairngorms techniques and attitudes developed over the previous few winters, where the key requirement for a route to be in winter condition is that it should be frozen and have a wintry appearance. These criteria are now accepted as the norm for high-standard mixed climbing across Scotland.
Three weeks later, the MacLean-Nisbet team went on to climb their greatest route, The Needle (VIII, 8) on Shelter Stone Crag. It took two weeks of continuous effort, scoping the best winter line and waiting for a settled spell of weather, before they made a two-day ascent. Twenty years on, the 250-meter-long climb still rates as one of Scotland's most demanding winter routes in terms of length and sustained difficulty. Last winter it saw its first one-day free ascent.
The way was now open for the other great challenges to fall. The following season, 1986, Kenny Spence succeeded on his third attempt to climb Centurion (VIII, 8) on Ben Nevis, with Spider MacKenzie. In the same season Nisbet and Sandy Allan linked up an ingenious line on the front face of the Central Gully Wall of Creag an Dubh Loch to give The Rattrap (VIII, 8). As more people became aware of the new techniques such as hooking edges and torquing, attention in the early 1990s shifted to the easily accessible Northern Corries of Cairn Gorm. Brian Davison, Graeme Ettle, and Nisbet were all involved in the action, resulting in a series of short technical routes including Big Daddy (VII, 8), The Vicar (VII, 8), and Prore (VII, 7). The late 1990s were primarily a time for consolidation, and these climbs introduced dozens of climbers to Grade VII routes. As climbers became fitter and more skilled, many of the big winter routes of the 1980s were repeated, and the one or two points of aid often used on the first ascents were eliminated.
State of the Art
Until the mid 1980s many of the harder mixed routes were winter ascents of summer lines, but as confidence has grown there has been an increased emphasis on seeking out winter-only lines. These are typically vegetated, wet and dripping in summer, but they are transformed by winter's grip into inspiring mixed climbing possibilities. Diedre of Sorrows (VIII, 8,1986) on the Tough- Brown Face of Lochnagar was an early example of a cutting edge winter-only line, and more recently routes such as Magic Bow Wall (VIII, 8,2001) and The Godfather (VIII, 8,2002) in the Northwest Highlands have expanded this concept to create 300-meter-long routes of alpine proportions that have significant technical difficulty.
Today two distinct styles are emerging. The first is a continuation of the traditional approach, with an emphasis on climbing routes on-sight and ground-up. Attitudes to aid have now hardened, and ascents using rest points or direct aid are considered seriously flawed. As a result, Scotland can perhaps lay claim to the most stylistically pure form of mountaineering in the world. Some routes require multiple attempts over many seasons, such as Brian Davison's ascent of Mort on Lochnagar (IX, 9, 2000). This line involved 18 attempts over 15 years, and is widely considered to be the hardest traditional winter route in Scotland. The three-pitch climb involves technical and strenuous icy mixed climbing with poor protection and serious groundfall potential.
The second style is to pursue technical difficulty by applying modern rockclimbing techniques such as preinspection to shorter (often singlepitch) climbs. Dave MacLeod, one of Scotland's most talented rockclimbers, is at the forefront of this development with routes such as The Cathedral (X, 11, 2004) on The Cobbler. MacLeod climbed this 30-meter-high roof problem by placing the gear on the lead, and suggested that the overall difficulty was similar to a pre-protected M12 route. Some climbers are questioning whether The Cathedral represents the limit of what is possible using traditional Scottish winter ethics, and for standards to progress, routes need to be pre-protected or practiced on a top rope. Although these techniques will drive up technical standards, the difficulty of the bigger traditional routes will always be dominated by the mountaineering challenges of longer approaches, lack of daylight, exposure to weather, and a strong determination to preserve the on-sight ethic.
The Fowler Influence
Mick Fowler, one of Britain's most successful alpinists, has had a prolific Scottish winter career. "The appeal of Scottish winter climbing is not something readily understood by the average person," he wrote in the 2002 Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal. "I have to admit that I struggled to come to terms with it. Conditions are fickle, early starts wearing and success comes only to those that persevere. Perhaps these are the attractions. Successes that are won too easily are inevitably those that are the least rewarding."
Fowler made his Scottish new-route debut in 1979 with the first winter ascent of The Shield Direct (VII, 7), a soaring line of icy chimneys on the Carn Dearg Buttress of Ben Nevis, with Victor Saunders. Fowler went on to climb a superb string of sensational icy mixed routes in the 1980s, mainly in the Northwest Highlands. Routes such as Tholl Gate (VI, 6, 1984), Gully of the Gods (VI, 6, 1983), and Great Overhanging Gully (VI, 7, 1984) are among the most sought-after winter routes in the country, and climbs such as Ice Bomb (VII, 7, 1988) on Beinn Dearg; Against All Odds (VII, 7, 1988) in Glen Coe; and Storr Gully (VII, 7, 2000) on the Isle of Skye, are still unrepeated. All these climbs take strong natural lines of daunting steepness and are predominately ice or icy mixed.
It was natural that Fowler should take his Scottish skills to the Greater Ranges. The first ascent of the technical southwest buttress of Taulliraju in Peru with Chris Watts in 1982 was his first major success, but the Golden Pillar of Spantik in the Karakoram, climbed with Victor Saunders five years later, was an eye-opener. Unquestionably this was one of the finest Himalayan routes of the decade and was very Scottish in character. Intricate routefinding, poor protection, and tenuous mixed climbing on powder-covered rock all contributed to the difficulty. "Prior experience of hard climbing in grim conditions helped enormously with this ascent," Fowler told me recently. "Scottish winter gave us the confidence to be bold and push on for pitch after pitch knowing that we could find protection in snow-blasted situations."
Spantik led to a series of outstanding first ascents on Taweche, Cerro Kishtwar, Changabang, and Siungang. These routes shared several common factors. They were mainly icy mixed climbs, the hard climbing was below 6,500 meters, and they could be climbed relatively fast in an alpine-style single push. But most importantly, perhaps, they were all intelligently chosen objectives that in many ways could be described as "super-Scottish" climbs.
Scottish Style in the Greater Ranges
The current generation of British alpinists has grown up with Mick Fowler's exploits, and his style very much defines the current British approach to climbing the Greater Ranges. There has been a shift of emphasis away from 7,000-meter-plus peaks or attempting technical rock routes at altitude. The recipe is simple. Combine Grade VII Scottish winter skills with good alpine experience, then go and attempt a mixed climb on a moderate-altitude peak. Ian Parnell and Kenton Cool's near-free repeat of the Denali Diamond (2002), Nick Bullock and Al Powell's bold route on Jirishanca (2003), and Rich Cross and Jon Bracey's rapid ascent of the north face of Mt. Kennedy (2004) all point to the success of this approach.
One of the finest British successes of the 1990s was the first ascent of the north face of Changabang by Andy Cave and Brendan Murphy (1997). "Undoubtedly, having climbed hard mixed routes in Scotland helped us dispatch sections of the Changabang climb more quickly," recalls Cave. "We'd often made similar technical moves on previous climbs up north, and the ability to climb a long way above protection is also something that you learn in Scotland. Doing new routes in Scotland also breeds essential routefinding skills?a sense of where the line is going to lead. Climbing through bad weather is de rigueur in Scotland, too, something we did a lot of in India." It would be simplistic to claim that experience with Scottish winter climbing is the underlying basis for these ascents. Proximity to Chamonix, good libraries, sharing of information, and an excellent expedition funding system also play their part. But many successful British climbers passionately cite Scottish winter experience as a key ingredient. "The weather and conditions that even novice Scottish winter climbers take as part and parcel of heading out into the hills really is unusual in world mountaineering," says Ian Parnell. "While we miss out on the scale and terrain, everything else about Scottish winter climbing is very close to the big-mountain experience. A hard day in Scotland is as tough as any you'll ever spend in the mountains. Even an easy day in Scotland you have to commit, whereas continental ice cragging you can amble up and decide when you get there whether you can be bothered or not."
The variety of climbing encountered on a Scottish winter route is another key factor, as Malcolm Bass, author of several new routes in Alaska, explains: "In an average Scottish winter season you climb all sorts of white stuff. Water ice, névé, powder, rime, verglas, lovely plastic squeaky ice, wet snow plastered on rock, turf and all sorts of intermediate material. If you waited for routes to be in perfect condition, you'd wait for decades. Winter climbing in Scotland is done, almost by definition, when the routes are "out of condition" in the traditional Alpine sense. You do your best to make a good choice of venue, walk in, and if it's white you climb something. You climb what you find in the corrie and on the route. I think this gives Scottish winter climbers an advantage in the big hills. When it snows all over your rock pitches you can go on. When the ice pitches melt out you can climb the running rock beneath, and powder- covered slabs come as no great surprise."
But it is not just the technical skills that are important. "It is your will that is most tested when climbing in Scotland," Patagonian winter expert Andy Kirkpatrick told me. "Conditions are never assured. The mountains can strip before your eyes as warm winds push north, and even when you find good conditions, climbing can prove impossible with hurricane winds and meters of rime and verglas. Once the top is reached?usually in the dark?there is the descent, testing the navigational skills of even the professional orienteer, especially in a whiteout with no pistes to follow or cable cars back to the valley. This means we Brits are optimists. We'll give any climb a go if we have fighting chance."
The Ben Nevis Playground
Although there are hundreds of corries and winter cliffs across the Scottish Highlands, the great northeast face of Ben Nevis is the best known and has had the greatest influence on successive generations of British alpinists. It is reliably in condition by January and for a few months onward and has the CIC Hut conveniently situated at its base. Climbing on the Ben is unique. Its cliffs are alpine in stature, and by virtue of their height and position near the west coast, they are exposed to the full force of North Atlantic weather. The resulting high level of precipitation, along with frequent changes in temperature and wind direction, allow ice to build rapidly and produce a winter climbing ground without equal in the country. While the mountain is best known for its Grade V gully climbs such as Point Five and Zero, it is the thin face routes such as Galactic Hitchhiker (VI, 5), Albatross (VI, 5), and Pointless (VII, 6) that climb the blank slabby walls in between?and these have the monster reputations.
Thin face routes rely on a buildup of snow-ice on steep slabs and are normally climbed when the covering is only two or three centimeters thick. Rarely does the pattern of freeze-thaw allow the snow-ice to form thicker than this, and, once one is committed, the climbing is a delicate game of mind control while balancing tip-toe up thinly iced slabs far above protection. The transitory nature of these climbs adds to their attraction, for it takes only one quick thaw to strip the routes, and they can disappear in a few hours.
Dave Hesleden, one of Britain's finest all-round climbers, explains: "Climbing on the Ben has had a big influence on my climbing. There's no fixed gear. You have to find protection and set up belays yourself. Routes like Orion Direct are big adventures?far more so than doing a Grade V+ icefall in the Alps where you can use screws and Abalakovs. The Ben is the most exacting climbing I've ever done. I would never dream of falling off. I'd be prepared to go for it and fall off in the Cairngorms, but never on Nevis."
Hesleden's comments reminded of the time I met Catherine Destivelle in the CIC Hut. She was making a reconnaissance trip with her husband to check out some climbs for a photo feature for Paris Match, but the weather had been poor and they had failed to do a single route. The hut was full and Catherine joined in the general banter with grace and charm, but underneath you could sense that she was disappointed with her week. She visibly brightened when Robin Clothier, the hut guardian and renowned Nevis ice climber, suggested they follow him and Harvey Mullen up Orion Direct the next morning.
It was a preposterous suggestion. The mountain was very snowy and it was too early in the season for snow-ice to have formed on the uppermost slabs. Morning came dark and gray with low clouds and blowing spindrift; most climbers in the hut sensibly chose icefalls or mixed routes low on the mountain. Robin was undeterred, however, and soon after breakfast the four of them set off for the Orion Face. That evening, when I returned to the hut, everyone had returned safely and were now recounting the day's adventures over steaming mugs of tea. Catherine's eyes danced with delight as she described their climb.
They had followed Robin and Harvey up into the murky gloom of Observatory Gully, and when the slope steepened they roped up as two pairs and started climbing. There was no ice, just a 15-centimeter-thick layer of barely consolidated snow covering smooth slabs. There were no runners or belays. Routefmding was desperately difficult in the mist, but the marginal conditions meant that it was critical they took the easiest possible line. Blindly they followed Robin and Harvey across a delicate traverse that led right into the maze of exit gullies above. Every so often they could hear avalanches hissing down Zero Gully. When they got to the summit, Robin pointed instinctively through the swirling snow with his axes and they plunged down through the whiteout toward the descent route. "It was like nothing I've ever done before," Catherine told me later. "It's a climb I'll never forget."
International Perspective
For international visitors, the most practical way to experience Scottish winter climbing is to attend one of the International Winter Meets organized by the British Mountaineering Council every other year. The meets are based in Glenmore Lodge, the Scottish Mountaineering Centre in Aviemore, at the foot of the Cairngorms. Guests are paired up with local climbers who have the necessary Scottish winter skills to direct their new friends to the routes, swing leads, and then get them back down to the valley again.
The meets have attracted many top climbers from around the world. Interestingly it is Slovenians such as Janez Jeglic, Andre Stremfelj, and Marko Prezelj who have been most at home in Scottish conditions. Prezelj first climbed in Scotland in March 1999 and notched up eight big routes, almost a lifetime's worth of hard Scottish classics, in a mere five days. The following summer he made a rapid, alpine-style repeat of the Golden Pillar of Spantik. "There's no doubt that my Scottish experience has improved my approach to mixed climbing," he told me. Scottish routes are quite short compared to those in major areas, but the experience is very strong. It's a complex thing, but after experiencing the long approaches in Scotland, clearing snow off to place gear, climbing in bad weather, and coming back in the fog and wind, I now believe that many things are possible in the mountains. On Spantik I had the technical experience from Scotland, so I wasn't scared to make interesting moves without protection close by, and my Himalayan experience meant I wasn't scared about the altitude and size of the mountain. It was really good!"
The meets have also given Scottish climbers a greater understanding of what makes Scottish winter climbing unique compared to the rest of the world. "You get great training in Scotland for big mountains," British Columbia guru Don Serl told me recently. "You tend to be out in all weather, so bad weather is not unsettling. You know how to dress for it and how to cope with it. Most success in the big mountains depends first and foremost on being able to 'live' in the mountains, in any and all conditions. Here in the Coast Range and the Cascades, the problem is one of consistently bad weather coupled with extremely heavy snowfall and long approaches. If you get two mountain routes in over a winter, you're doing really well."
When you live in Scotland, the accessibility of the Scottish winter experience is easy to take for granted. Keen climbers will climb routes every weekend. There are probably few other places in the world where you can leave your bed early in the morning, have a full mountaineering experience, and be back in time for dinner.
But Scottish winter is far more than just training for big mountains. Some of the finest Scottish winter climbers rarely go elsewhere because Scotland gives them all the adventure, challenge, and commitment they need. The Scottish winter game can be frustrating and uncomfortable for much of the time, but when it works nothing can compare. As I write this in early January, a warm southwesterly is howling outside, the ice is falling off the crags, and the hills are being stripped by a deep thaw. I've failed on every route I have tried in the last month, but I know I'll be back on the crags as soon as it freezes again. Andy Kirkpatrick understands: "Every season, countless climbers make the pilgrimage to the Highlands, believing that it's better to take a shot and miss than never take the shot at all. Every now and again you'll score, and when you do there's no better place on the planet to climb."
A Note on the Scottish Winter Grading System
Scottish winter grades are used to describe the difficulties of all types of a winter route, whether it is ice, mixed, or snowed-up rock. Nowadays a two-tier system is used with Point Five Gully on Ben Nevis as the benchmark V, 5 climb. The Roman numeral describes the overall difficulty of the route and takes into account technical difficulty, the quality and quantity of protection, and how the sustained the climbing is. The Arabic numeral describes the technical difficulty of the hardest pitch. The contrast between the two grades gives an indication on the nature of the route. For example a V, 6 grade suggests a well-protected technical climb, while a grade of V, 4 implies a route that is technically easier but with limited protection and possibly poor belays. It is almost impossible to compare Scottish climbs with ice and mixed climbs elsewhere, but as a crude approximation Scottish technical grades are a generous grade easier than the equivalent M or WI grades in North America.
Summary of Statistics:
Area: Scotland
Article: A survey of history, recent developments, and nature of winter climbing in Scotland.
A Note About the Author:
Simon Richardson is a petroleum engineer who lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, with his wife and two children. Born in 1960, Simon has made first ascents of over 150 Grade V winter routes in the Scottish Highlands and is the author of the Ben Nevis guidebook.


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|Kutch Ki Khushboo
|A Pagli - Kutch Nahin Dekha to Kuch Nahin Dekha
|Leaving Bhuj for Lakhpat
|The Attractions await
The plan for today is simple. Start from Bhuj in the morning and get to Lakhpat Fort by afternoon. On the way there are Buddhist Caves called Siyot Caves or Kateshwar. Stay would be at Narayan Sarovar tonight. But then this is Kutch and here Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai (anything is possible in Kutch)!
|Sarson Ke Khet - Unbelievable but yes this is Kutch
|Punvareshvar Temple at Manjal, Kutch
Soon Kutch brings in the first surprise of the day. You are passing by the village of Manjal in the Nakhatrana taluqa. By the road, on the left, you can see the unmistakable ruins of a temple. Such sights send your pulse racing. You stop and dash out to investigate.
|West facing Shiv Temple called Punvareshvar Temple at Manjal, Kutch resembling the King Sized Bhojpur Temple near Bhopal
The Department of Archaeology, Government of Gujarat's sign says this is the Punvareshvar Temple. It is apparent that the deadly earthquake of 2001 had inflicted major damage to this west facing Shiv Temple. The temple is built on a high platform with big slabs of stone. In form, this temple reminds you of the King Sized Bhojpur Temple near Bhopal, MP. The temple combines both Dravida and Nagara styles and probably dates back to 9th century. The shikhar is almost gone. Looking at old photos, it is apparent that more of the shikhar has come down in the last decade. Maybe ASI has plans to rebuild it but looking at the sad general state of heritage in Gujarat, you doubt it. There is no decoration on the outside of the walls. Inside, bathroom tiles decorate the floor. The mandap ceiling has rosettes.
|Vadi Medi at Paddhargadh, Manjal, Kutch Gujarat
|The mysterious ruins of Vadi Medi at Paddhargadh, Manjal, Kutch Gujarat
Vadi Medi is an interesting looking two-storeyed structure made of beams and columns. The basic elements are quite similar to the temple – high platform, huge blocks of stone and interesting looking bharvahaks. Archaeologists believe the structure is a palace which could also have been a Jain and Shiv temple. You can see some deities in the broken members. Nearby is the ruined Nani Medi which could have been another palace or temple.
|Jakh Botera Temple with 72 Yakshas
|No this is not Mediterranean! Shri Yaksheshwar Mahadev Temple at Kakkadbhit in Kutch
It is time to visit the Shri Yaksheshwar Mahadev Temple perched on a hill called Kakkadbhit few kilometres from Manjal towards Lakhpat. There is nothing old about this temple painted bright white. But there is something that you never expected. Inside the sanctum there are seventy two idols of Yakshas mounted on their horses. Faith of people and its expression always leave you baffled. Outside, the white colonnade facade glimmers under the brilliant blue skies.
|Tropic of Cancer on the Bhuj Lakhpat Road - Kutch Gujarat
|Today you are greeted with the best looking skies in your entire trip as cottony clouds drift over the rollercoaster road
And then you hit the Tropic of Cancer for the third time - first time it was here about two years ago on the way to White Rann from Bhuj, second time was on the way to Sanchi from Bhopal and now!
|Ashapura Mata Temple in Matano Madh, Kutch
|This is what you call the perfect road
|This is what you love about India - people are always happy no matter what
|Even in the remote Kutch, like a mirage you will see a woman in a bright odhni or this boy sitting contentedly by the road
The road is perfect, the blue skies are joyous. Driving through Kutch has been a delight so far. Soon puffs of white clouds appear in the blue sky. This is getting better and better. This is a perfect day to be out on a road trip. All around Kutch, landscape with occasional scrubs extend on both sides. Cows and buffaloes along with a Rabari herder make an occasional appearance. India is never without human presence – whether here in marshlands of Kutch, in Thar Desert beyond Jaisalmer or on the brinks of Majuli Island in the middle of Brahmaputra.
|Brace yourselves - another rollercoaster loop coming up
The rollercoaster road continues to thrill and delight as it goes through another loop of aerial ascent as if trying to reach the clouds. One moment you are touching the sky and in a blink you are hurtling down to the bottom of the valley towards the concrete concourse called Papadi. It seems the marshland of Kutch was once criss-crossed by streams which have mostly dried up now. Hillocks of rock and mud have created this rollercoaster landscape.
|Just when you expect to find Siyot Caves, there is another complex of newly built temples. The scale of construction across India is mindboggling
|Literally in the middle of nowhere, there are palatial bunglows
- on the way to Siyot off the highway
About 110 kms from Bhuj you make a detour of about ten kms. You are in Siyot village. The Siyot Caves Complex or Kateshwar is just beyond the town. Here in the middle of practically nowhere there are palatial houses probably built by NRIs. You descend into another valley to find another temple complex.
|Finally the hill that has the Siyot Caves - Hsuan Tsang was here
|Siyot Caves in Kutch
|Clouds put up a show for you over the Siyot Caves
As you emerge out of the stream valley the hill with the caves appears up ahead. The remoteness, the sudden calmness signals that you are approaching a Buddhist site. A narrow track leads you to the group of east facing Siyot Caves. The main cave is a surprise with an ambulatory path cut around the sanctum. It is believed that this is a Shiv Temple probably dating back to 1st or 2nd AD. Discovery of seals and traces of Brahmi inscriptions lead us to believe that the temples were later used by Buddhists. Rest of the caves are simple and single celled. In the 7th century, Hsuan Tsang visited this cave complex which was a part of about 80 caves that he saw at the mouth of Indus. Unbelievable – you are following in the footsteps of the great Chinese traveller from Vadnagar to Siyot!
|Another wish fulfilled - first sight of Lakhpat
|Lakhpat Ahoy
You again crest another hump on the road and lo and behold like a mirage Lakhpat appears over the horizon. Far on the left, rising out of the brown wasteland you can see fortifications and bastions. White clouds in blue skies hang low over the town. Even this far, you can sense an unmistakable despondency emanating from the dried Rann. The once powerful walls are decaying; almost claimed by the ground. The town seems like a once powerful warrior, now on his knees, head bowed. The only cheer is the sky spreading the protective blue sheet comforting the warrior in death throes.
|So this is what happened - Lakhpat is on the left
|Abracadabra - and now you see Lakhpat on your right!
Going ahead straight you again dip into a trough. The fort has disappeared! You are looking around. They did say it was a ghost town. You turn left. Surprise surprise, the fort has miraculously moved over to your right side now! Is Lakhpat playing tricks on your mind? So what happened is this – you could not see this road approaching the south gate from your vantage point few minutes ago. The topography first hid the road and then made the fort appear on your right! You did say this road is the most fun you will ever have in India!
|South Gate of Lakhpat, Kutch Gujarat
You step inside the walled town, and like practically every heritage site in Gujarat, the town is again a disappointment. It is a dusty and sandy and unkempt scrubland. In Gujarat it seems there is a deliberate attempt to let the heritage wither and crumble away. With the exception of World Heritage sites of Champaran-Pavagadh and Rani-ni Vav in Patan and to some extent Modhera Sun Temple, every heritage looks derelict, despondent and disappointing. There is a total disconnect between the TV ads and what you find on the ground. Something is fundamentally wrong with this pretentious exercise. Maharashtra is equally bad but at least they do not have TV ads glorifying their heritage sites. But then you are not in MP and you expected this.
And then the earthquake of 1819 struck. In the aftermath of the earthquake a bund was created to the north and Indus moved fifty kms to the north in Sindh. From a prosperous trading port and a rice bowl, Lakhpat overnight became a deserted town. The port dried up bringing the trade to a halt. The land dried up and with it all the rice cultivation. Lakhpat's population dwindled down to 6500 from a peak of 15000 inhabitants. By 1880 there were just 2500 people left. Lakhpat had turned into a ghost town. All the dried channels you saw today were probably the streams and canals bringing water to the rice fields two hundred years ago. Today, all you see is salt marsh and scrub. Lakhpat was felled by a river changing its course; another casualty in the long history of cities fading into oblivion as rivers disappeared. The town is a tumble of deserted houses and havelis. Today, about 500 people live within the walled town. You were not expecting to see many people here. But this is India and there will always be people whether in the remote hills of Meghalaya or here on the tip of Kutch.
|The only good thing about Gujarat Heritage - these signs put up by Department of Archaeology, Government of Gujarat
|The blingy signs in Lakhpat
|The above sign came loaded on the camel cart! Photo Courtesy - Blog: Insourced to India
|Hatkeshwar Temple built by the Nagar community in 1850. The Nagar community worked as teachers, administrators and mercantile officers in the trading port town - Lakhpat Kutch
|Pir Kamalshah Dargah at Lakhpat
The town has several attractions like Hatkeshwar Temple & Pir Kamalshah Dargah.
|Ghaus Mohammad Kuba in Lakhpat
The pleasant surprise is Ghaus Mohammad Kuba, an octagonal tomb that is the most ornate tomb you have seen so far. The Nizamuddin Family tomb complex in Chanderi MP has some incredible filigree screens but this tomb right here is the most wholesome and pretty tomb. Thankfully, the tomb outside has not been painted over like the other structures here in Lakhpat. Pir Ghaus Mohammad who is buried here was a sufi mystic revered by both Hindus and Muslims. The tomb was built around 1855 and even this late the tomb boasts of such marvellous carving.
|Sayyed Pir Shah Dargah in Lakhpat
|Ramparts of Lakhpat Town, Kutch in Gujarat
|After White Rann this is the Brown Rann! View from Lakhpat Ramparts
The entire town is surrounded by walls and bastions. You climb one of the bastions to see the Rann. Here to the north all you see is brown marsh of Kori Creek. Maybe it is low tide now and the channel would fill up few hours later. There is no sheet of white salt either. The wall to the East has a BSF post which keeps an eye on the border.
|Time to say goodbye to Lakhpat
|Koteshwar Mahadev Temple - India's western most Shiv Temple in Kutch
|Sunset at Kori Creek
|Kori Creek
You reach Kori Creek just in time as the sun goes down spreading this golden luminescence all around. In the distance, boats bob on the shimmering water. Bells ring out for the evening arti at the Koteshwar Mahadev Temple built on a high platform on the left. Like everything around, the temple glows in the sunset light. Like two evenings ago, you again find yourself in this incredible Kutch dusk when your feet seemingly levitate and you float in this nothingness. The feeling again is indescribable when everything goes quiet around you and the golden and pink and blue hues of the sky take you in their embrace.
The Great Gujarat Road Odyssey
Day 1 - Viratnagar
Day 2 - Pushkar
Day 3 - Vadnagar


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Photographer's Note
This picture of one of the Rabelos was taken om a rainy day in Porto. The Rabelos were used for transportation of Port wine. The bridge D Luiz across the river Douro was designed by Teophile Seyrig a disciple of the French engineer Gustave Eiffel in 1877. The latter more famous for a tower in Paris with his name.
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ninix (957) 2005-07-01 15:18
Hi Ulf,
This oicture brings back my memories to Porto.
I spen 4 years living there.
Nice picture. A bit to dark maybe.
About the not:
Eifel built the Maria Pia old railway bridge, The pont Dom Luis with the dubble deck was built according to the same technic using prefab elements in the same way as they built the Eyfel tower.
The portwine is no longer transported by Rabellos from the upper Douro. It now all in Tanktruck brought down to the caves (cellars) at the uposit site of the Douro, Villa Nova Da Gaia.
One of the last Portugeuse port shippers, Joaquim Calem was the owner of that white cave next to the bridge.
Thanks for posting,
betogrein (2232) 2005-07-01 16:15
belíssimo enquadramento, cores e nitidez, parabéns...
annagrace (2469) 2005-09-05 22:10
Interesting note about the engineer, I can see how he likes that metal framework, just like the big tower in Paris! I like the colors and POV of the boat.
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- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:19:53 -0400 (EDT)
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