⛰️ The Hillwalking thread ⛰️

Stunning views.

@nobeerinthefridge – 👍👍👍

Crackin’ walk up Illgill Head and Whin Rigg yesterday with the world covered in candyfloss! 26 Wainwrights down, a million to go!

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!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mGxFNHi9Q7SW2w6u7

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!.

No firm plans really…..the dream is good snow so that we can ski, just gonna play it by ear with the weather. Will have ice ace and crampons with us for some very easy winter walking if it’s a possibility…..

Hoping someone on this thread can advise please – I’m going to be staying near Cockermouth over Christmas and will want to go on decent hillwalk or two. Can anyone recommend anything please?

Don’t want to drive too far and probably looking at 5-8 miles ish per walk. A bit of elevation/exposure fine but looking at the weather I’d probably rather not traipse up Skiddaw.

Thanks in advance.

Grizedale Pike area south of Winlatter, Buttermere area, Ennerdale.

I’m by no means a Lakes expert, but can offer a few suggestions.

Longside edge (Ullock Pike) often sits below the Skiddaw murk and offers lovely views.

Coledale Hause another option, pretty sheltered, decide on the day how high you want to continue.

Despite the business, Cat Bells is a lovely wee hill, can park in Little Town for a slightly different (quieter) way up

Up the spoony and round Lonscale fell toward Skiddaw house is nice too, could park at top car park and cut out spoony.

Up Gasgale Gill will offer a bit of shelter too, again go as high as you want to.

Sooooo many options, such a lovely area, we’ve booked a ‘last mortgage payment’ weekend away in the Lakes in January, really hope we’ll be okay to go.

Fleet with Pike and Haystacks would probably make a good 2 peak walk from Butteremere (I’d did they huge Buttermere circuit 20plus miles in about 14 hours either side of a wild camp)

Catbells is a good suggestion, always fairly busy though.

Sale Fell and Ling Fell (walk 51 from Graham Uneys amazing new wainwrights book) would be spot on actually. Right by Cockermouth and 11.5km apparently.

Graham Uneys amazing new wainwrights book

Considering him for my ML training, as he comes up to Arran a couple of times a year, need to check that book out.

Another option is to do a bit of the bash (the best bit!) up past castlerigg, walla crag (awesome views from Lady’s rake), falcon crag, ashness bridge, footpath to watendlath, awesome cake and a pint of tea in the brilliant Flock Inn at Rosthwaite, bus back to Keswick.

That would be a lovely walk.

It’s brilliant mate, I dont know him personally but followed him on Facebook when I was still on social media. He seems like a really pleasant guy, and extremely knowledgeable!

Tim Mosedale was another Lakes based guy that comes highly recommended, he does all sorts including Everest guiding. We were booked to do some multi pitch climbing with him a few years back and ended up being his first cancellation due to weather in 5 years apparently! (he cancelled not us, but we were very glad that he did 😂)

Thanks very much all, loads of options. I’ll be in Cockermouth on Christmas Eve so I’ll try and pick up a copy of that Graham Uney book 🙂 .

Not sure Ill get to do much over the Christmas break, hoping parents visit for a few days and I can drag my mum out here and there seeing as the OH is saving all his holidays for our house move.

Has anybody walked Liathach? Considering planning to do it next year having done Ben Allign and Suilven this year. I think any grade 2 stuff is avoidable?

A few from Beinn Eighe yesterday.

Fantastic sir. 👏🏻

Sitting in Perth waiting for tiso to open so I can get some gas, wee overnighter tonight, weather a bit of an unknown though.

weather a bit of an unknown though.

Tomorrow looks grim up here.

Has anybody walked Liathach?

Last summer.

You’re correct, the toughest scrambles are avoidable via some ledge/narrow skirting paths. Very straightforward if airy…

This pic shows path going up and over the more challenging route, but look in centre and you can see the skirting path going to the left.

Has anybody walked Liathach? Considering planning to do it next year having done Ben Allign and Suilven this year. I think any grade 2 stuff is avoidable?

The bypass path goes on the south side of the ridge. It is straightforward but still exposed and not to be taken lightly. If you’ve done the Horns of Alligin though you should be fine with anything on the Liathach bypass.

About to head up Gowbarrow near Patterdale. We’ve stopped in the Lakes en route to Scotland. Weather does indeed look grim everywhere tomorrow, hence using it as a travel day.

Weather here looks a bit drizzly, seems to be getting slightly better but I’m not holding out much hope for many views.