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2011 Description coming soon Another sunny day in Scotland. In the middle of the morning we started our walk at the Corrie Cas car park, walked up the Sron an Aonaich ridge, passed the Ptarmigan Restaurant with the funicular station and climbed the final 100m to Carin Gorm’s summit on a hilarious stone path with …

2002 The morning in Ullapool. The afternoon in the Fannichs. It turned out to be exactly the right plan since as the day developed the weather got better and better. Around noon we parked our car at the dam of Loch Droma and went up the landrover track and footpath leading to Loch a’Mhadaih. Heading …

Having driven up from Fort William to Loch Cluanie in the morning we parked our car half a kilometre east of the Cluanie Inn and walked up the good stalker’s path on the east side of An Caorann Beag after having crossed the flat and wet terrain close to the road. Once we got to …

2010 Doing things differently than the rest is the privilege of the unexperienced. Or it may simply be the result of independent thinking based on the desire of maximising one’s advantages. Since we were staying in Invergarry we considered ways of climbing the South Glen Shiel hills from the Loch Quoich side. This would save …

2010 Doing things differently than the rest is the privilege of the unexperienced. Or it may simply be the result of independent thinking based on the desire of maximising one’s advantages. Since we were staying in Invergarry we considered ways of climbing the South Glen Shiel hills from the Loch Quoich side. This would save …

1992 totally white out 2002 The morning in Ullapool. The afternoon in the Fannichs. It turned out to be exactly the right plan since as the day developed the weather got better and better. Around noon we parked our car at the dam of Loch Droma and went up the landrover track and footpath leading …

2008 How to find better ways to a summit or This time from south. Mike and I had climbed Ben Macdui via Cairn Gorm in September 2002 on a very hot day in late summer. The approach over the plateau by way of Corrie Cas, Ptarmigain Restaurant and Stob Coire an Lochain had been a …

The weather forecast had predicted a better second half of the day on the west coast so Mike and I decided to drive to Fort William (from Crianlarich where we had spent the night) and to try our luck on one of the two Munros to the north-west of Loch Lochy: Meall na Teanga. Having …

Parking by the A9 two or three kilometres north of the Pass of Drumochter we crossed the railway at the Balsporran B&B heading for the north-east ridge of Geal-charn. All the glens were filled with morning fog and clouds. Even though there had been a few very dry days before the walk the ground on …