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Wow, spectacular photos, looks amazing!
^It's a similar winter photo (of liathach) in a ken Wilson coffee table book in the late 80's that motivated me into hill walking, then climbing and winter/alps mountaineering.
@Spin
That Suilven trip looks fantastic. I was up that way twice last year, in decent enough conditions, but nothing like that!
Spent New Year in the Lake District. A couple of days of apocalyptic wind and rain were followed by a fabulous cold, clear day on the Langdale Pikes.
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I miss the Lakes. So many happy hill memories from late teenage years...
With a Louise?
😉
a bit of pre-work snow tourism on Dartmoor.
In that first photo you have the "did I lock the car?" look.
I was actually out doing some off the beaten track bouldering today but the photos basically look like I was hill walking! A beautiful day on Liathach.
Crianlarich Seven yesterday. Quite a bit of up and down!
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Right, so clearly I now need to learn another convoluted and unintuitive method of posting photos...
Right, so clearly I now need to learn another convoluted and unintuitive method of posting photos...
Just don't try Flickr - it just double posts everything...
A pal's last Munros on Skye last weekend. Fairly grim on Saturday but better for the last one (Am Bhasteir) on Sunday.
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Stac Pollaidh - both summits.
A tad warm. Cracking wee hill.
Alligin and the Castles. Proper big mountain day, great scrambling
It's not so much the heat as the humidity that gets you. I don't think I've sweated so much for so long in years. Only about 22*c, but really humid, and due to light wind and midges, clegs, flies etc we chose trousers and long tops. Watching others get eaten on the descent made it the right decision - I even gave smidge to a french group who had no idea what midges were...
Up early and got off hill by 3.30pm, rain moved in by 4.30.
Brutal physically, but cracking day Grommit.
Those look like great days out on fantastic hills. The Am Basteir pics are really atmospheric too!
I'm very jealous of the recent posts in this thread. Had plenty of great days on Stac Pollaidh, Am Basteir and one on the Horns of Alligin in light winds but occasional 60mph gusts. It was pretty scary stuff.
Not been up any decent/nice hills for over a year due to persistent injuries. Hoping to get out next month.. fingers crossed
@thelawman - 👀
And WTF is up with images on this forum? Flickr or Labnol+Google just doesn't work...
Beinn Chabhair, Loch Lomond area. A hill I have looked up at hundreds of times living in the area previously, and have climbed pretty much all the major hills around it.
We've avoided it due to stories of the bog halfway and the horrid start. And the stories were truth. Youngest_oab and I decided it was time to tick off the last 'local' Munro.
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/munros/beinn-chabhair.php#
We met a lady who was seriously cold (it was 5/6/7*c on summit with a breeze and she was in running shorts and t-shirt) - she would not take a fleece from us and headed down to Coire a Chuilinn the steep way. Hoping she was OK.
Lovely view, ace to be out, but not one to repeat in a hurry...
@matt_outandabout think I'll save that one for a very dry period then!
I've been trying my best this year to tick off some more munros as I think I'll actually manage to complete them in my lifetime even though I wasn't sure before. Had ten days recently staying in the van around Braemar which helped picked off 15 for the week and I'm back up now for two weeks picking off some so hopefully Carn a Chlamain tonight on the bike assuming the storms pass over before 5pm when I plan on doing it. Drumochter 4 tomorrow seeing as I now get every other Friday off work!
That is a lot of hills getting climbed - you must have thighs of steel or a high pain tolerance. I am now over 50 and tubby - and don't my knees and thighs tell me that the day after a climbing a hill....
Thighs of steel! I do feel pretty drained by the time I make it back home but when the weather is so decent it really can't be helped! I'm a mere 42 and my husband does keep telling me just wait til I'm 5 years older.
I've been trying my best this year to tick off some more munros
I love your choice of company.. here's Lundy enjoying CMD up to Nevis. 
Black Forest walk
Hoher Fraßen, Vorarlberg, Austria on Sunday
Stunning day up on the Helvellyn range on Saturday. 9 Wainwrights from Dollywagon Pike up to Clough Head completed. Could have done with shorts, t shirt and suncream rather than fleece lined base layer.
Low lying cloud to the west for most of the day with only the biggest peaks poking their summits above.
Didn't plan it but it was also lakes in a day fell run going in the opposite direction to us. Those people are a different breed of human. I was knackered after 1200m ascent, they were doing 4000m!
Does anyone know where this picture (in the latest Alpkit email ‘Find Faraway Nearby’ Outpost Mountain Journal sent on 24.02.26) is from. It’s intriguing me and I am hoping it is somewhere in the UK.
Cheers
Ok, after much thinking and map browsing I think it's Arran. Looking south from Caisteal Abhail past Cir Mhor to A'Chir. Fairly certain of this!
They managed to chop out the most recognisable part!
Bloody hell! Well done Spin. As a contributor to Geograph, I should have spent some time looking there too 🫡
I actually thought Arran early on but went down a Welsh dead end. I do enjoy working these things out.
Great detective work there Spin.
- I'll use this op
portunity to see if I can attach photos
Slovenia?
Ooops, double post.
We were in the Slovenian Alps last July and I'd always wanted to go up the national mountain Triglav via one of the via ferrata routes from the north, choosing the Bamberg route which is the trickiest option. There is several hours of grade 3 scrambling and a fair amount of cables and spikes in places. At 1860m of ascent it's not ridiculous to do in a day but my body was definitely not used to going full bore for 11 hours, I couldn't stomach food and I think the air density at 2864m made me light headed, forcing me to place me feet with excessive care most of the so called easier route down. Talking of the descent (Prague VF route) it was much harder than I expected. The national mountain is climbed on this route by the sort of unlikely folk you see going up Ben Lomond, except here they're doing continuous technical and exposed terrain even if they do spend the night in a hut at around 2500m.
Unfortunately the summit was in cloud by 11.00 so I missed the view. Pictures to follow.
When I went up Triglav there was a guy on the top selling soft drinks. Looked like he'd just carted a couple of slabs up!
Triglav summit from back when I was proper fit. Up and down from the campsite in Trenta in under 6hrs.
The way up
Nice.
Coincidentally, a shot from a similar point to the mystery one appeared on a UKC article about the new Corbetts guide.
Triglav tourist route from the north has this wee feature, doesn't put off the very unfit looking chainsmokers, but then folk from this part of the world are pretty hardcore 
Great photos, I'm very jealous !
We were in Slovenia in late Sept 2014 and spent 3-4 days playing on the Kara****en waiting for the snow on Triglav to bugger off before trying the route you described. Alas it just got worst so we moved over to the Karwendel Mtns to do the Mittenwalder Höhenweg.
Has anyone done the Zugspitze via VF Brett ?
Seeing as the thread has popped up it's reminded me to add a few photos from Boxing Day onwards and a winter skills course I attended.
Did 8 munros over 4 consecutive days and then a couple of weeks ago I returned to the Glencoe area to do a 3 day winter skills course so I'm a little safer over winter in the conditions.
First pic ... dog completely nonplussed by Brocken Spectres 🤣
Last pic ... did they also show you how to arrest a similar fast slide, only head first on your back?
We went every direction possible head first back and front, feet first front and back. Was great fun having grown up somewhere that didn't get snow, I've never been sledging or had the chance to play in snow as a kid.
Snowdon, Foel Gron and Moel Eilio on Wednesday
We went up Gragareth today. 16km and we only saw 7 people. The crowds were probably on Ingleborough
Really was a stonking day on Saturday, short sleeves and glasses! 11 miles with 6 Wainwrights. Will be finishing this year so need to keep momentum til then.
It's high time I was in a position to make another contribution to this thread, so here goes. Last weekend was taken up with a bikepacking trip into Clennoch bothy in Galloway, with the intent of doing the Corbett of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn as part of the weekend. So, on Friday pm we rode to Clennoch (there's pics on the relevant WRPT thread), then on the way out on Sat we took the track tha t runs along the northern and western flanks of the hill.
From the highpoint here:-
it's an easy enough stroll up grass and bouldery slopes on the west side:-
In total about a further 1000ft to the top:-
A large group (OK, 15 or so) of ramblers at the top kindly included us into their summit snaps, after checking we were happy to make an appearance on their Facebook. No probs with that, but I didn't think to ask who they were, except they mentioned using HF (Holiday Fellowship) accomm for some of their trips. Anyway, 'twas a grand day out, riding and walking, then riding back down the landrover track to the road.