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A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith | Mystery & Thrillers
Registered by wingswan-scotwing of Inverness, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 08, 2003
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Journal Entry 1 by wingswan-scotwing from Inverness, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 08, 2003

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Bought at a local charity shop, as it looked interesting at the time. But I have too many others books waiting to be read, that, despite my reluctance, I will let it go and find a reader. I know I can always get another copy if I want to read it.

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Synopsis:
On an afternoon jaunt, Hank, his brother, and a friend accidentally discover a wrecked plane. Inside they find the dead pilot and a sack containing four million dollars. The men know that they should notify the authorities, but instead they devise a foolproof scheme for keeping the money. They will hide it for one year, tell no one, live normally, and then divide the loot into three equal portions. Nothing can go wrong with such a simple plan-or can it?
 

Journal Entry 2 by wingswan-scotwing at on Sunday, July 13, 2003

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Released on Sunday, July 13, 2003 at Ben Nevis in Fort William, Highlands Scotland.

Sunday morning dawned a glorious day of bright sunshine and clear blue skies, so we decided to go up Ben Nevis. For those not used to this particular corner of West Scotland – this is a pretty rare event. Indeed, the locals say, if you can’t see the top of Ben Nevis, it’s raining; and if you can see the top of the mountain, it’s about to rain. Today proved that old adage wrong, as not only could we see the top and it didn’t rain, but we could see the Mamores, and other mountain ranges for miles around.

We took the tourist path up the Ben – along with the world and his wife. It looked like Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday afternoon – or Piccadilly Circus or the Champ Elysees, or …insert a crowded corner of your country. The summit plateau at 4409ft (1344m) is not a particularly pretty one, as Scottish mountains go, but it was great to arrive there after slogging uphill in the heat of the mid-day sun.

We decided to take the scenic route back and leave the tourist path to the tourists. This involved a long, hard scramble over huge boulders down the east side and along a narrow arête above Corie Leis. The exposure on the arête was quite something as it was very narrow in places and I could imagine this would be quite tricky in the mist or low cloud. We climbed up the slope of Car Mor Dearg to the summit and wandered along the plateau heading towards Carn Dear Meadhonach.

Before the next top we descended to the CIC climbing hut in the corrie. This was a steep descent, initially grassy, but was scree on the lower slopes. I left the book weighed down by a large stone, beside the wall of the hut just behind the Mountain Rescue store. We followed the path round to Lochan Meall an t’Suidhe and from there picked up the lower stretch of the tourist path, before hobbling back to the car at 10pm.

Although the CIC hut is a private climbing hut, and not an open bothy, I've included this book as part of my Books in Bothies project, see my bookshelf 



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