A trip to Arrochar accessed by rail along with armchair traveling video thinking about how we engage with space both phsycially and remotly. 

Our interaction with sites are constantly changing and evolving. Place and travel writing has historically been in flux based on how people interpret spatiality.
Individuals and groups navigate space and site differently, seeing things that I miss, finding relations between places that I do not know exist, creating new knowledges and discourses and alternative ways of navigating sites.
The virtual tour of the Arrochar Alps is a personal account of how I engage with the space showing what I choose to observe and share.

The Arrochar Alps are a bizarre, cragged and scared landscape. Although apparently remote, the environment is littered with abandoned hydroelectric projects, decaying torpedo testing sites, army bases, nuclear submarines and ghost clans.

The photos below are of the original hiking trail to the summit of Beinn Narnain.
The trail follows a series of decaying concrete bases that were originally part of a cable rail system used between 1945 and 1950 during the construction of the Loch Sloy hydroelectric scheme. In the construction German prisoners of war were used as labour, twenty-one lost their lives. It is strange that this remote area is so tied up with war, conquest and technological change.

Now left to fall back into nature the rail system has been reclaimed by nature taking on the role of a de-facto stream depending on the weather. The concrete blocks and steel girders now merge with the dense foliage and peat bogs becoming a largely forgotten feature of the landscape.