[Closed] Your favourite mountain, with pictorial justification.....

oy pal, stopping posting pictures of mountains......... jealous as ****.

ridden on Arran 3 times. love the look of goat fell.
also love blencathra. but great gable is my fave. no pics at hand.

I need to get up Blencathra soon Tony, still no ridden up there. Hatched a plan for lighter nights, I finish work at 14.30 on a friday, reckon I can be in Threlkeld for 5 - hopefully means the mountain will be quiet quiet too...

I am up in the lakes on the weekend of 10th march. might go there on the Friday morning.
not up to speed yet for riding with a group, but don't mind suffering by myself.

Tinto Hill.

Entirely unremarkable as mountains go but, crucially for me, the only one I can see from my house.

In a landscape which is dominated by a gentle slope into a valley, a single, solitary, lonely mountain always strikes me as somewhat incongruous.

As a kid, I used to catch an occasional glimpse of it looming on the horizon and, in my imagination it contained a dragon who had evicted some dwarves or it was ebout to erupt in massive column of ash and lava.

School trips to climb it were commonplace.

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Buachaille Etive Mor, cliched but I don't care. Never actually been up it but I just love the way it towers up in front of you as you come up on Glencoe, in fact I love the whole drive, it's like a really well paced movie...

Last time I went up to Kinlochleven, it was one of those perfectly clear nights with no moon, I stopped somewhere around glen etive for some stargazing and it was just this huge black presence in my sky- then, it'd snowed so as my eyes got used to it the detail came in and it basically crept up on me and suddenly there's a ****ING GREAT MOUNTAIN RIGHT ABOVE ME. Pretty good!

Right this minute, looking out the window at the Scottish dreich, I'd say Whistler Mountain 🙂

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this one is good too. some ace pubs at it's base........ 8)

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Coniston Old man Tony?

Perchy, there's a video on youtube of folks descending Tinto, looks not bad.

Northwind, aye, a braw mountain. It's an ace walk as well, especially the scree surfing on the way back down!. Saying that, last time we descended off the wrong side, accidentally (in the cloud). It's a hell of a long slog down into Glen Etive....

Elidir Fawr.

I love the fact that it carries it's scars proudly.

Beautiful little summit too, views over to Anglesey, with Snowdon, Moel Elio and the Glyders so close you feel you can touch them.

Up there a couple of weeks ago and will be up there again next week.

Love it.

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Mt. Gothic. In the background here.

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Not huge and you can't bike up it or anything but its presence in the Gothic Valley near Crested Butte when you ride the 401 trail is, for me, awesome. I've spent a collective long time, sat in the sage, admiring the immense rock formations of its butte after a hard day in the saddle. A very special place.

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It's not even a decent hill; 500m of dumpy mudstone, and overshadowed by it's more famous northerly neighbour Sugar Loaf. But Crug Mawr was the site of my first proper off road adventure, so will always have a place in my mememory

Not mountains but I do love the Malvern Hills. I can ride out of my house and be on the tracks in 10 minutes. The bridleways are nice to roll round/get some speed but the cheeky stuff is a match for anything I've ridden anywhere else in terms of techyness
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Olympus Mons,

Doubt I'll get to ride it.

Ming the Merciless - Member

Olympus Mons,

Doubt I'll get to ride it.

Definitely one for a full face helmet

Not a mountain but Helman Tor

Just reeks of millennium of human occupation and from there you can pretty much roll all the way back down to St.Austell

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Haystacks in the Lakes. Lots of happy memories of walking round Buttermere, up Scarth Gap, across Haystacks and back down off the side of Fleetwith Pike.

It's got to be Tryfan, small but perfectly formed. One of my earliest climbs.

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Just one? I am not sure I can!
Could be this one - Krn in Slovenia - for this view at dusk from the summit and that you can stay in a WW1 bunker just below the summit
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Cant post links but a cliched (largely) list from me

Loughrigg (for personal reasons), Blencathra too
Half Dome and El Cap (for obvious ones)
Matterhorn (Hornli side), Ama Dablam and Paine Towers (as above)

Tofane di Rozes in the Dolomites
I did the via ferrata route up it in 2003 with two good mates. It's a very long day out made more challenging by some icefall, several missing sections of cable and queues of slower climbers. We got back down to the refugio with the last rays of sun. The post-summit stein of beer and house-brick sized strudel in Refugio Dibona was just heavenly.
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I've been to the Dolomites many times since but have not gone back up there.

Well that's a tough question. Not sure I really have one, but I'll say Liathach as it's so synonymous with Torridon...
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And because of that view off the back...
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Straight up the middle 🙂 Good memories, great company, stunning mountain.

I have a soft spot for Cotopaxi as well, mostly because it looks like a kid's drawing of a volcano:

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For visual impact, for me its probably Beinn Alligin in Torridon because of its complexity and the way it changes so dramatically depending on the direction of the sun. The views from the top of Tom na Gruagaich are just stunning

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Maybe Ben alder 'cos we have camped under it a couple of times and also climbed it a couple of times. You can see our tents by the river. Classic scramble to get up it as well as stonking views [url= https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3176/3109856353_b28300cb04_o.jp g" target="_blank">https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3176/3109856353_b28300cb04_o.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/5JNPWZ ]19 camp 2 view 5[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/25846484@N04/ ]TandemJeremy[/url], on Flickr

I've become a little obsessed with Fuar Tholl recently. A wonderful, quiet hill both summer and winter.

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My favourite mountain picture mainly for the memories. My dad on Sgurr na Ciche the summer we helped him complete his monros. One of my top mountain days out
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The next one.

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The mighty slioch

Most of the above and more, but it was this picture of Liathach in a coffee table book which I always remember many years ago inspired me in my early 20's (with no real desires at the time beyond pubs and pub mates) to take up hill walking, climbing and mountaineering. Went on to Scottish winter climbing and Alpine mountaineering, but this pic was what I'll always recall being the trigger for me thinking "I want to climb up that and other mountains like that". So Liathach will always be a special place for me.
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In the UK, Snowdon on a sunny day in October

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Abroad - needs no introduction, also a sunny day in October!

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A'Mhaighdean - it has the best view from any UK summit

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Bruach na Frithe - cos that's where I compleated.

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And Beinn Eighe over Liathach any day. The latter reminded me of a quarry. The former hides its most interesting side from the casual viewer.

Ben Bulben, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Used to spend summers there as a kid.

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But the Buchaille takes some beating TBH.

Sgurr nan Gillian on the pinnacle ridge with the wee man aged nine.
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Bastier.
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Matterhorn, given I am no mountaineer ideally from Chez Vrony
Aguille Vert Chamonix
Mont Fort Verbier for the view

In the UK the humble Pen y Fan as the mythical first hiking trip as a teenager.

Top photos chaps, obviously lacking in my post

Chickenman wins the thread.

My vote.. Suilven.

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Its not just the mountain itself.. its the landscape its in. just Stunning.

runner up... Liathach..

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yes chickenman and kid is fantastic on Gillian pinnacle ridge, what a smile, great pics.

Another one for the Torridon lovers.

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essel - your second photo looks like view east from Suilven to me!

Two Beinn Eighe ones for Scotroutes. Spot the climbers in the second one.

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Lance Mountain

And another Liathach one. For me, favourite hills are the ones you can keep going back to and find something new. The ones I've put on this thread I've walked, ran,biked,rock climbed, ice climbed and skied on. And just sat and looked at.

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