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Did the classic Aonach Eagach ("notched ridge") in Glencoe yesterday. Snow coverage complete but thin and a bit powdery; ten hours on the nose from the car to the scruffs' bar at the Clachaig Inn. #scotwinter
Tim HallDay out with Moray to Sgùrr an Utha, just north of the main road to Mallaig.
Started off in nice sunshine, but rapidly clouded over. The cloud base was around 800m, so we just escaped, but most of the surrounding hills were in cloud. A few flurries of snow or rain, and not much wind, so a reasonable day.
I’m sure there are spectacular views from the summit, but those will be for another day.
#HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie #Corbetts #Glenfinnan #WestHighlands #ScotWinter
Started off in nice sunshine, but rapidly clouded over. The cloud base was around 800m, so we just escaped, but most of the surrounding hills were in cloud. A few flurries of snow or rain, and not much wind, so a reasonable day.
I’m sure there are spectacular views from the summit, but those will be for another day.
#HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie #Corbetts #Glenfinnan #WestHighlands #ScotWinter
Ben Rinnes is a distinctively shaped hill, always in the view from the Northern Cairngorms, & has always been on my to-do list. Today we did it.
Lovely bright sunshine, but the wind was baltic, and from the south so we had no shelter from it at all, apart from behind the summit rocks. Not a day for hanging around, so we just came back down the same way, total walk 3 hours.
With Moray in the county of Moray.
#HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie #ScotWinter #Moray #BenRinnes #Corbetts
Moved15 years ago this weekend, amazing inversion conditions on the Beinn Dearg group above Ullapool, but staying in an absolutely baltic bunkhouse.
If we ever make it as a boyband, these will be our album covers :-)
#ScotWinter #BeinnDearg #ConaMheall #Highlands #Inversion #GayOutdoorClub
From earlier this week: Day out with Moray to Beinn Liath Mhòr a’Ghiubhais Lì in the Fannaichs, NW Highlands of Scotland. Great views above the inversion.
#Fannaichs #ScotWinter #HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie #Corbetts
Navigating by compass in the mist across a featureless shoulder, peat groughs and patches of sheet ice meant a straight line was impossible.
I've been playing this game for 40-something years, professionally since 2010, but when the mist thinned and my target ridge appeared dead ahead, it's still a wow! moment.
Still got it haha. 🗻
#HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie #ScotWinter #Corbetts #Munros #MountainTraining #Fannaichs #Scotland #Highlands
9 years ago today I took this pic on the slopes of Cairn Lochan, the idea was two people in a big landscape.
It was only later that I realised there were 2 more people visible coming down off Braeriach in the distance on the left.
Needs a click.
First hill walk of the year, Geal-charn Mòr 824m, our local Corbett*.
Everyone else's pics from above the inversion have sunshine and blue skies. We climbed above the freezing fog of the inversion to find ... damp fog. But it's always a decent walk, even without the spectacular views of the bigger Cairngorms hills.
*Corbetts - the Scottish hills between 2500 and 3000ft, in old money.
#Cairngorms #Corbetts #GealCharnMor #ScotWinter #HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie
Happy Old Year's Day, Happy Hogmanay, and Happy New Year when it comes.
Some earlier ones:
1. 2016, Ryvoan.
2. 1981, Ben Alder from Culra.
3. 1977 Coire an Lochain, although Hogmanay itself was at the Shelter Stone.
4. 1978, Lairig Ghru, trying (& failing) to get to Corrour from the Sinclair Hut.
#Cairngorms (except #BenAlder) #ScotWinter #Bothies #LairigGhru #Ryvoan #Culra #Corrour #SinclairHut #ShelterStone #NorthernCorries #Hogmanay #HappyNewYear
