Legs apart, my back is braced against the wind. I can’t see my feet:- a knee-deep river of spindrift hurtles past at motorway speed. They should get this at Alton Towers. Exhilarating !! Until we eventually turn west, that is:- transverse to the wind, the battle intensifies. Drifts up… Continue reading
Some 12,000 years later, the weather was looking a bit cloudy. So Frank, Dave, Linda and I found our way all along Glen Roy, — an internationally famous geological feature — taking in the amazing horizontal lines which run for miles along the hillsides [being the ancient beaches of the… Continue reading
On Sunday morning, 9th November, there were nine of us (plus 2 canines) who set off from Honister to join a busy footpath to the top of Great Gable. Dave, Donna and Ellie, Linda, Cath, Dolly, Steve, Matthew and me. We did not ask anyone’s permission to walk. We chose… Continue reading
“Slack low pressure” Things suddenly looked up after a dreary forecast for 11-12 October. From Drumochter summit, Dolly, Steve, Keith and I were soon enough on the top of Sgairneach Mor, first Lunch; and an hour later Second Lunch on Beinn Udlamain to… Continue reading
The journey took several days; possibly weeks. At last, in the hidden recess high in the mountains, the pilgrim crouched and spent hours or days chipping an image into the hardest rock. Two hundred generations afterwards, I crouch in the same position with my camera. Across the unfathomable gulf of… Continue reading
Gerti Sillaber plied us with schnapps at her Pension. “Welcome to Tirol” she said. We have two days of sunny weather to come, but that looks like being our entire summer !! ” In the event, Loch, Dolly and I did rather better than that:- we had to shuffle the… Continue reading
Here are just 5 pictures from a trip made by Paul Walkington, Michael and myself across An Teallach on a glorious day at the end of May. The “standard route” – clockwise from Dundonnell is not a huge distance round (about 15km) but it is a 1300 metre day. The… Continue reading
STREAP an 1100 metre Corbett Another little-known gem, out west on the Road to the Isles. Streap is tucked away between the famous Curryhully Horseshoe, and Gulvain, its Munro neighbours to either side. This is one of Ralph Storer’s “Best 100” and I’ve had my eye on… Continue reading
ACROSS ARDGOUR This all began with idly gazing at the road map. On the other side of Loch Linnhe from the Fort William road, and south of Rathad nan Eilean – the Road To The Isles – there stretch westwards those rocky and sparsely-inhabited peninsulae leading all the way to… Continue reading
