Matt – Yes indeed, if not more! The goals for 2017 are going to be about places travelled and pictures taken, not just a mileage target as it has sometimes swerved towards in recent years.

@munro thanks

Nice one Luke.

Top inspiration for anyone wanting to get into the mountains. It’s partly what nudged us to do the Mountain Journal, which led on to RADventure.CC

Ace thread again Luke!.

Had thought Goatfell a few weeks back was the last mountain of the year, but this mild spell is keeping the snow away, so think I’m gonna manage a wee blast of Ben Lomond tomoro.

Cheers, they were good to do and we’re glad we’ve got the opportunity to continue with more articles like them on our own site now.

Yeah. First proper outing for the Niners, were you visiting Rob then?

Ben Lomond was ‘interesting’ yesterday!.

Summit was clear all the way up the side of the loch, set off at 9am, by the time we got to the shelter of a big stone at 760m it was 70mph sidewinds, with razorwire intermittent showers.

Decided going any higher was a bit on the irresponsible side, so descended back down from there. I’d forgotten how much of a great descent it is, just keeps going and going! The ‘sanitation’ at the bottom is a bit of a shame, it’s all hardpack and drop offs from the middle deerfence down now, but it’s still fun, and it’s not as though you don’t get enough tech up on the hill.

If this mild weather continues, I might pop up again on saturday for another attempt.

Pretty much so, it’s had the carn ban mor treatment from the middle deer fence down. The big rocky monolith has had some real steep pitched stone just after it too, which is unrideable (for me anyway)

Sadly, I hear reports that Ben Ledi has had the same treatment, but much more extensively.

Some stuff in Scotland folk may not know about.
The mile of perfect bedrock descent in Fisherfield; harder than it looks lower down.
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Sgor Dearg stalkers path down to Gaick Lodge as part of doing the pass S-N then back along the Wade Rd/Phones/Loch Cuaich + up Bogha-Cloiche.

Carn a Mhaim.
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bookmarked for 2017 plans!

Not according to Pete Scullions instarant it’s not!

Fantastic stuff Luke/munrobiker

Love these annual posts. Very inspiring. Another one to bookmark as a reference. Keep up the good work.

Can’t believe I missed this last week, as the previous years I’ve seen, brilliant! 😀

I’m now sitting at work, with not a lot to do, wishing I was up a mountain or big hill with my bike.

So I log in to see if there are any strathpuffer threads and find this one with pics of me! Great stuff munrobiker. We’ll do the bigger loop next time, you’d love it. This thread has made me more determined to do more big mountain days. I kinda take them for granted and don’t spend enough time out exploring them.