received by email:

Hi Joe,

A planned trip up to Fort Bill this summer brought back many happy memories of many years of holidays under canvas in and around Glencoe, and of the nights in the Clackhaig in the 60s and 70s when old Jimmy was the landlord. You probably don't go back that far, but "organized" folk singing for money did not exist in those days, and anybody with a guitar would keep the place "happy" long into the night. I think Hamish McInnes was the then leader of the Mountain Rescue, and I remember one particular call out when one of his guys put his fathers Renaul Dauphine up a tree when trying too hard on the old road, and had to be rescued himself.

Anyway, my query is :- why does there seem to be no mention of the Glencoe climbing song on your site, or any other site that I can find. Sung to the Streets of Laredo I think. Is there only me that remembers it ? Most of the others songs about all things, and the Polaris base, seem to be there, but not that.

Regards,

Ted,
Halifax.