THE NOTCH AND THE CASTLE Neptune’s staircase. Two miles out of Fort Bill on the Road to the Isles, its the last (or first) link in the Caledonian Canal Here, King Neptune’s watery kingdom climbs up eight steps, to rise 64 feet out of the sea to Loch Lochy…… the… Continue reading
Fun and Games in the the Alps Saastal, July 2011 Mittaghorn – Egginer Traverse (AD, III+) After a mammoth drive, and a day spent loafing around eating waffles, we were ready to get up some hills. The long traverse between Mittaghorn and Egginer looked interesting, and would help with… Continue reading
Lucky Horseshoes… Couple of weekends back I found myself with a free weekend and what appeared to be a perfect weather window for the West Highlands. Feeling that luck was on my side I headed up to Tyndrum with my trusty little tent, and on Saturday wandered round the superb… Continue reading
A LAKELAND THREE-STAR Corvus (again) July 2011 “I wish there was a really good jug to grab here” And lo, one appears. Corvus almost feels deliberately made like that. So although we’d both been up several times before, there’s always space for old classics. (IE Corvus, or me and… Continue reading
In the absence of a gallery, some pics from a sunny day out on Slioch. Continue reading
Suilven and Friends…….a north-west passage Frankly, its a bit preposterous. Take a narrow footpath over a mile long. A bit scrambly in places. Then put it half a mile up in the sky, and add precipitous drops off either side and sheer rock down from either end. Suilven sticks… Continue reading
Fish, Wind and Fire. When plans for that wedding were announced Matt and I decided that the best way we could celebrate would be to get as far away from civilisation, TV’s and newspapers as possible, so plans were made to head north and play on a hill or 6.… Continue reading
Andrew, Matt and I decided to head up to Wainstones to play, Andrew and Matt playing on the rock and I would play with my camera. 🙂 However the weather in the Wainstones area left a bit to be desired so we decided to head to Scugdale to see if… Continue reading
Bienn Bhuidhe a wee cracker The SMC Munro book suggests that the best way to do this Munro is by following the road past the Glen Fyne brewery to Inverchorachan either walking or cycling, then following a stream up a steep slope into the corrie and eventually onto the ridge… Continue reading
Sron na Lairig Another snowy weekend and Maria and I were heading north again on Friday afternoon. We hadn’t really decided what to do yet – we were staying in Arrochar, but with slightly erratic weather patterns and fresh snowfall we were concerned that the hills in that area might just have fresh,… Continue reading
