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Call to look down on Gleneagles from the Ochil Hills |
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Tuesday, 22 February 2005 |
If the G8 leaders manage to meet in Gleneagles hotel some people will be
looking at them from above on the Ochil hills, and laughing at them,
with a big day-glow banner or two. Please do join comrades there for friendly
encounters on the hills. Let the hills be a weapon free zone.
There will be several group walks in the Ochil Hills in run up to
the G8 Summit at Gleneagles if only because there are several routes to
explore. But also so various groups of people can get together on with
walks promoted to different extents, and in different ways. The walks
will be great way for people to interact in run up to G8, already
several good comrades who don't go to meetings will be coming for walks
in the Ochil hills.
It has been said it is possible to go from Dollar to Glen Devon in
2.5 hours (but allow up to six hours first time). Also when going to
Gleneagles over hills one reachs the A9 before Gleneagles.
Routes include Tillicoultry to Blackford (which is on edge of Golf Course) as well as Dollar to Gleneagles or Auchterarder.
The Silver group
has an interest in Dollar, there are silver mines in valley we will use
to go up into hills. But other groups can will meet elsewhere,
especially after checking out various routes in practise.
When it started to get more daylight after spring equinox I will be
encouraging more people to come up from afar to come with us walking in
the Ochils, and there will be walking arranged and promoted every
weekend from then till G8 Summit.
By time of G8 comrades will have well broken in walking boots, waterproofs, flask and other gear of use on them hills.
It is recommend to get a copy of 'SuperWalker' Map of the Ochil hills (1-85137-308-X) from Harvey aps
as much more inspiring map than using the Ordnance Survey maps setting
whole set of hills much clearer on with Gleneagles at top, and all the
Stirling Uni campus and the hillfoots at bottom.
Also we hope to test out and learn various communications methods
on the hills, from using simple whistles, and calls, to use of
semaphore with flags (bring binoculars), or for few hours of darkness
Morse code with with flash lights, as well as CB radio. We sure ensure
our communications are good as this can be key to outcome of the day.
The state builds monuments for propaganda purposes - to commemorate
their imperialist wars or to feign sympathy for those who died in them,
to make their authority appear immutable by parading their past leaders
or simply to impose their strength upon the people.
Inspired by the multiple uses of a strip of turf at Mayday 2000
that gave a focus to monuments, we plan to the construct enduring
peoples monuments.
One project is to ask those coming around the G8 Summit to bring a
pebbles from their area to make new cairns with a few talisman chucked
in as well, to celebrate our victory, and foretell the burial of those
that govern us.
For those interested in majickal aspect of this and other projects
around the G8 then may want to join up with the Pagan Magik Association
which grew out of encounters around the ESF in London and others majic
clusters evolving more within Scotland.
The People's Golfers
are up for going via hills too, though they are saving themselves for
the second day of G8 summit as re-enforcements. Do keep a look out for
second hand golf clubs at car boot sales they often come up as new
players often buy wrong size and have to replace, as well as usually
reason for resale.
The practise walking will be one of forums to allow a wide
interaction in response to G8 outside confines of the meetings,
organisational agenda and process, with both pluses and minuses that
entails.
Sometimes transport will be arranged but also many walks start and end points can be accessed via public transport.
small pamphlets of use:
Walks: South Perthsire (Hallewell Publications, 1999, 1-872405-13-4)
Ochil Hills - landscape, wildlife, heritage - an introduction with
walks. (from: Lindsay Corbett, Forth Naturalist and Historian, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA)
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