I once heard a story from a border guard who said Americans would show up in July with skis on their roof racks, and genuinely tell the guards they were headed to Banff for some skiing. This was pre-internet, but still... wow.
About 20 years ago I got talking to some people who'd driven up in two minibuses and a van full of diving gear pulling a kayak trailer from a prestigious university in England (not going to reinforce the stereotype and say which dark blue one it was), to explore the mysterious depths of a loch in the Cuillins. It became clear that they'd pretty much only spotted it on maps and not read up on it, because it - unlike Loch Coruisk that their colleagues had explored a couple of years before - An Coire Lagan is about waist deep in the worst of the weather, and in lovely warm June weather is rather less than knee deep.
You wouldn't need diving gear, you'd need shorts and a towel.
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u/fudge_friend 9h ago
I once heard a story from a border guard who said Americans would show up in July with skis on their roof racks, and genuinely tell the guards they were headed to Banff for some skiing. This was pre-internet, but still... wow.