th1stleandr0se Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 A couple of weeks back I was cycling along the canal around Broxburn when I suddenly had the notion to climb up the Greendykes Bing. What a wonderful underused place. Sure there are signs of motor bikes using the slopes but I wandered over a relatively large unused area of Central Scotland on a sunny day and I was the only person there. It's not quite Urban Exploration but if you haven't done it yet it's worth a punt. It's a bit sore on the calves climbing up the shifting shale waste but once up there, you can see that nature is reclaiming it. Any of you been up the bings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Represent the start of the world's evil oil industry so they do. Feel the death of a polar bear with every step you take up them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Represent the start of the world's evil oil industry so they do. Feel the death of a polar bear with every step you take up them. At least the industry has ceased now. Unless, of course, they start fracking but, correct me if I'm wrong, that doesn't involve huge heaps of waste. Not that the polar bears care about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 At least the industry has ceased now. What, the oil industry??! I meant it tongue in cheek btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 f**k polar bears, they kill seals. Seals are top boys in my book. Indeed, without seals the oil just migrates to the surface and never pools up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Remember this was the view at West Calder United's old park: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Remember this was the view at West Calder United's old park: That's the Five Sisters bing and it's still there. Others have disappeared as they've been used as materials for road-building programmes. It's amazing how green the surviving bings have become now if you climb up them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 One of the Five Sisters used to have a wee funicular railway I'm sure. Dunno if it's still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I've been up the five sisters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I've been up the five sisters. Aye, yer ain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bing (2) Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I've been up the five sisters. Be very very careful...............cousins o' mine..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 There's one near me at Seafield I take the dog up sometimes, nice view on a clear day. You can just make out Edinburgh. There used to be one near me in Livingston, past the Lizzie Bryce roundabout heading up the A71. I used to love playing there as a kid, it's not there now and it's a industrial estate now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I used to love playing there as a kid, it's not there now. On yonder hill there stood a dookit. It's no' there now 'cos some ¢unt took it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I've been up the five sisters. Way to go - best I've ever managed is two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock001 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 That's the Five Sisters bing and it's still there. Others have disappeared as they've been used as materials for road-building programmes. It's amazing how green the surviving bings have become now if you climb up them. It isn't amazing at all. They spent a fortune landscaping the unique looking bigassed pink hills and turning them into boring old green hills. The only upside is that they are now less dangerous. Sheil is pretty similar to slate, the stuff cavemen used to make axes out of. It made for some 'extreme' sledging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Be very very careful...............cousins o' mine..... Kissing cousins now. #winning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 f**k polar bears, they kill seals. Seals are top boys in my book. Polar bears don't shit in the woods either, they're nonconformist like that, the attention seeking feckers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 It isn't amazing at all. They spent a fortune landscaping the unique looking bigassed pink hills and turning them into boring old green hills. The only upside is that they are now less dangerous. Sheil is pretty similar to slate, the stuff cavemen used to make axes out of. It made for some 'extreme' sledging. I thought they just left them and nature gradually re-colonised. I bow to your superior knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 The only upside is that they are now less dangerous. Sheil is pretty similar to slate, the stuff cavemen used to make axes out of. It made for some 'extreme' sledging. I can see the extreme sledging angle and I nearly did some of my own trying to come down. The shale moves under your feet on the slopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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