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Cairn William - NJ655132

Cairn William - NJ655132


Postby taylor94 » Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:12 pm

Sub 2000' hills included on this walk: Cairn William

Date walked: 05/10/2011

Time taken: 2.3 hours

Distance: 8.5 km

Ascent: 448m

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Elevation - 1'469
Location - Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Category - Sub2000's

After a hard weekend at Mount Battock i decided to shake my legs of a bit with a sub2000 that was close by. Looking near Bennachie I noticed there were a few mountains pretty much right next to it.

I had a look at a few and decided to chose Cairn William. I packed my bag with the essentials and set of in the morning.

I got dropped of in Inverurie and got the bus out to Monymusk. The walk from Monymusk to the bottem of the mountain was not far maybe a mile or two at the most.

I headed up the mountain and things got slightly interesting.

All the mountains I had climbed I had been with my partner and this time I was on my own. As I started to walk to the summit path I started to feel a strange feel of lonelyness. Not a typical kind of lonelyness but a really desperate lonely. My partner was working but usually she phones me on her lunch for a while and we talk then she goes back. My signal was gone and it was nearing that time when she would call and I was hoping I wouldn't miss it so I had somebody to talk to.

I reached the bottem of the summit path which looked fairly easy to climb and i got my signal and I had a big sigh of releif. While on the phone I had my stove on with my water where I was cooking some long grain rice for my dinner and while talking half way through the cooking of the rice the pot fell and the water poured out and I had to eat it or leave it. There was no other water to spare and even if they were I would have to boil the water all over again.

With slight hesitation I ate my slightly hard rice and after a few forkfulls I got use to it and it didn't taste that bad.

After my debateable lunch I started to accend to the summit. The weather was nice not to warm, a slight breeze to cool me down and slight showers of very light rain which was perfect.

I reached the very open summit and felt the blast of the wind. I was struggling to even keep standing as the weight of my rucksack pulled me in the wind. I sat down to tuck into a twix bar and then headed home.

Overall it was a good experience and I needed my endurance as my legs were still recovering from Mount Battock.

Heading home I held my head high proud that I managed to keep going even when I was really tired.

Great mountain to start off mountaineering.
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Re: Cairn William - NJ655132

Postby Ladylou2 » Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:34 pm

Thanks for adding this one Taylor94. I am always looking for shorter local winter walks to keep the legs going and I haven't looked at this hill before - will have to venture up soon. :)
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