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Good that looks good! I'm so jealous
My favourite place to go walking but sadly only get up there about every 5 yrs.
My favourite place to go walking
I came to the conclusion yesterday that if all I could do for the rest of my life was wander round Coigach I'd be quite happy. Well, maybe Assynt as well. 🙂
Looking for a bit of inspiration for hills to do with with the kids from you knowledgeable mountain folk.
Took them up Ben A'an last weekend, daughter loved it and said it was the best hill ever. I think the mix of it not being too big, but with some fun steep bits and boulders and slabs to play on was the winner.
Anyone got any tips for particularly good hills they've done with kids in Scotland? Can be anything from 80m to say 350m climb. Best I've come up with so far is Arthurs seat just for the novelty of it.
Opposite A'an is Ben Venue - although a path, there's lots our lot used to scamble over and range like puppies off the lead.
Tarmachan ridge is interesting as hills go, ours loved it from a young age. Imo, just go up to summit then first 15 mins of ridge, after the down scramble bail into the corrie and the hydro track out.
Ben Ledi via Stank glen is another kid friendly and engaging day with different paths and feel all the way up and down.
Perthshire Vorlich similarly, and ours enjoyed the scamble up Stuc a'Chroin. Odd walk out if you don't go back over Vorlich though.
Chonzie is not a scramble, but it's the easiest Munro in the land! Great for a summer picnic.
Carn Liath at Blair Atholl and Ben Vrackie at Pitlochry also offer steep, short, interesting days out for kids.
Lomond is a busy but interesting and short Munro.
I've got more if you want 😉
Tough following Ben A'an fir a kid, as it feels like a proper little mountain, many higher more rounded mountains will seem like a slog to them.
Dumyat and Meikle bin worth a couple of hours, lomond hills, agree Arthur's seat, and also tarmachan ridge or even beinn ghlas as the car park is a good head start for them. Ditto cairnwell munros. Pap of glencoe is another shout, or even Ben a chrulaiste just for the view of the great herdsman.
Another couple from today. Climbing on Fionn Bheinn but the start and finish of every winter climbing day is hillwalking so I thought I'd put the views on here. 🙂
Good photos, @spin. It certainly looks like winter has proper arrived this weekend. I must get out again after too many years of enforced absence.
It certainly looks like winter has proper arrived this weekend
It'll all be in the sea a few days from now!
Pea souper of a day, wee Corbett ticked off in Arrochar Alps - Beinn Luibhean.
No pics sadly, twas grim. Good chat though, and as always better than being at work.
Couple of munros lined up for Saturday, weather looks decent. 🙏
First walk for the new Manta GTX - impressed.
I'm hoping to be out over Christmas, but need a healthier mrs_oab as sidekick.
Pea souper of a day, wee Corbett ticked off in Arrochar Alps – Beinn Luibhean.
No pics sadly, twas grim. Good chat though, and as always better than being at work.
Couple of munros lined up for Saturday, weather looks decent. 🙏
First walk for the new Manta GTX
Did my first and only hill of the year a couple of weeks ago just across the road - Beinn an Lochain.
Belter of a wee winter walk, short and direct but nicely mountainous at the top, shame the sole fell off my Manta boot just as we left the car, summer boots and microspikes for the win!
Couple of munros lined up for Saturday, weather looks decent
Saturday looks great.
Very true!
Just make sure you go high!
I've set myself the task of walking/running all of the Lake District Wainwrights in 2022 that I havent done already. I Know its a bit meh etc and I am not one really for tick lists but having spent 40+ years running and walking almost all of the larger peaks there, I am looking forward to seeing some of the less well known areas.
Great day on Great Coum in Yorkshire Dales NP
Mini-inversion with Morecambe Bay covered in cloud. It was t-shirt weather for about 2hrs
Absolutely amazing warm, clear day today with YoKaiser on the Dorain duo.
Not often you can see the Merrick and Macdui from the same spot in December!.
Stunning views.
Crackin' walk up Illgill Head and Whin Rigg yesterday with the world covered in candyfloss! 26 Wainwrights down, a million to go!
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some great inversion photos on the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-59727407
From the above:
Wow.
That satellite image is amazing, it reminds me of the snow in 2009 (or10?) where the whole country was covered except a little bit of Anglesey and a thin sliver on the south coast
I love how it shows the big and snowy lump that is the Cairngorms too.
👍
While I Zoom'd, Team'd and emailed the day away, two of mine decided to skive school and university.
A. Good. Decision.
Magic 💙
Some cracking shots there!
Everyone loves a brokenspectre....
From Whitewell.
The shadow of Carn Elrig from Carn Elrig
Braeriach and Lurchers Crag from Carn Elrig.
Braw Spin.
Chickenman, this allows you to post Google images mate.
https://www.labnol.org/embed/google/photos/
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Oz6rIiTTQRla6LXviIyAR2UioJl9lwiOQf02fGRMVzNB2DJFVoYNO4nK7o5V6zyfXmOtOQL5T4Yt5VO7qos4Sd4dUmLTOhooe2YOj8y1qn-E1IYJqzkRtP9IutrY5gO_tqOZQhdOsic=w2400
I'll try imbedding it this time instead of providing a link (yes I am that bloody clueless!)
Ochils summit
Go into the pic, click share and copy link.
Paste into that site, then take the direct link, and paste it into the IMG utility up there ^
Bit of a pain, but better than using 3rd parties IMHO.
Try with the img tag thingmy
Thanks for the hand holding NBITF, I did know but forgot since the last time I tried.
Cracking. 👏🏻
Anyone any plans over the period?.
Planning a couple of local hills to ease the squeeze back into it, she lost her mountain mojo during a brutal 6 months of being on a ridiculously understaffed ward, but she's back on clinic duties now.
Also hoping for a summit overnighter with a youtubing mate of mine 🙏
Probably a variety as he's a compleatist, and I'm quite happy to hit a corbett too.
We're supposed to be heading 'up over the border in the Motorhome on the 27th.....it's not looking likely is it! It would be a fitting end to the worst 6 months of my life tbf.
Hoping that 2022 will eventually bring some more time in the mountains.
Hoping to use my new 4 season boots I got in summer last year, didn't get too much chance to use them earlier this year, too much snow so I was on the splitboard 😉
There's a couple of the Cairngorms I need to do, including Sgòr an Lochain Uaine as it wasn't a Munro when I did the Devils Point and Cairn Toul with my dad many years ago.
I'm patiently waiting on an ill mrs_oab. The rate things are, I'm not sure she's going to striding out this winter.
We're keen to get a couple of days in, I'm hoping a last couple up at Blair Atholl and Driesh & Mayar.
Fingers crossed.
@Tom-B where you going buddy?. No more restrictions at xmas, so you'll be fine, and tbh I can't see any more travel restrictions, it'll be all about the indoor setting now. You may have to get takeaways instead of sit in though!.