Tag: walking
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An unconventional community in Scoraig, Scotland – September
The morning after our arrival in Badrallach, waves of rain were washing over us. We set off for interesting-sounding community of Scoraig towards the end of the peninsula: someone we had met at the campsite on a previous occasion had told us about it, as he had grown up there, and we had made a…
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Traversing over the pinnacles of Liathach, Torridon, Scotland – September
Liathach day. We got up early-ish, had breakfast, and drove to the starting place for Liathach. We set off at 7.50am. I tried to keep my trepidation under control – I had always looked at Liathach with a little fear, and reading descriptions of the route we were taking that day had never changed this.…
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Ben Nevis via the back way, Lochaber, Scotland – September
Going up Ben Nevis (which we had never been up before) via the Carn Mor Dearg Arete had at some point recently gone on our shortlist of what we wanted to achieve on this trip. It was one out of three things we most wanted to do, the other two being An Teallach in Dundonnell…