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26th January 11, 01:08 PM
#1
Some photos from Highland Games last summer
Or...
"What To Do on a Saturday Afternoon"
Go watch strapping young men in kilts throw heavy stuff around. (and ignore the announcer when, after five hours, he mentions how old they are because then you just feel really icky and dirty.)
Good times...
Ok, so there were a few legal ones.
Haggis for lunch
Weight for distance
Hammer throw - that's a 16 pound weight at the end
Shief toss - a bag of hay weighing 16 pounds thrown with a pitch fork
(there are a lot more... but it won't let me post them, so once this thread is up I'll add them! And excuse the "information" in the posts, this is copied off of my other board.)
Last edited by KiltedGirl; 26th January 11 at 07:38 PM.
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26th January 11, 06:28 PM
#2
Great pictures. Thanks.
Keep 'em coming
Humor, is chaos; remembered in tranquillity- James Thurber
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26th January 11, 07:40 PM
#3
Caber toss - about 16 feet long and weighing over 100 pounds
this one finally did fall
Heavy weight for height
When it was all over, I talked them into letting me go up the ladder to shoot down at someone tossing a shief up towards me. I was at the top of the latter, with one of the pro level guys flinging the 16 pound bag over the bar at me... 24 feet in the air at the top of an extension ladder. Cool pictures though!
Oh yeah, there were pipers there too...
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26th January 11, 07:40 PM
#4
This just struck me funny
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27th January 11, 03:03 AM
#5
A M A Z I N G pictures !
Thank you.
Best,
Robert
Robert Amyot-MacKinnon
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27th January 11, 03:05 AM
#6
Nice! Love the ladder photos! 
[SIZE="2"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]T. E. ("TERRY") HOLMES[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]proud descendant of the McReynolds/MacRanalds of Ulster & Keppoch, Somerled & Robert the Bruce.[/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"]"Ah, here comes the Bold Highlander. No @rse in his breeks but too proud to tug his forelock..." Rob Roy (1995)[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
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27th January 11, 03:11 AM
#7
Great pictures, thanks for showing them to us.
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27th January 11, 04:12 AM
#8
Great pictures . . . but what were those wallies doing in their pith helmets?
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life.
[Proverbs 14:27]
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27th January 11, 04:17 AM
#9
nice pics. I love the replanted caber. 
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27th January 11, 07:13 AM
#10
Thanks everyone! The ladder photos were fun, but a little frightening at times! lol
I have a pile more on my website - The Highland Weekend at the Sterling Renaissance Festival, The Central New York Scottish Games and Celtic Festival and The 26th Annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games hosted by the Amherst Museum.
The ones I just posted are from Amherst.
If you'd like to see the rest of them here's the link: http://www.imagequix.com/photog.php?id=99E7Q9R
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