Category: walking
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Across the Cairngorm plateau to Ben Macdui, Cairngorms, Scotland – September
A clear but windy day. As the weather looked to be best of the next few days, we thought to do a popular Cairngorms high circuit. We started walking form the Ski Centre car park at 9.20am up the ‘windy trail’ to gain the ridge – an apt name for this day, with gusts of…
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Just a small part of An Teallach, Dundonnell, Scotland – September
The weather forecast was not brilliant, so we set out in the morning with the modest objective of reaching the top of SÃ il Liath, the first top of a round of An Teallach done clockwise. We did not take our rope and gear. The walk-in up Glen Chaorachain from Corrie Hallie felt quite long, I…
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A wet day on Ben Starav, Glen Etive, Scotland – September
We did not spend too long in the Lakes, but moved on to north-west Scotland. The weather forecast for the next week or so was not great. We decided to try going up Ben Starav, a munro accessible from Glen Etive just south of Glen Coe. The weather was a bit iffy that day. As…