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If you are in a relevant club then look at mountaineering club huts. https://www.mountaineering.scot/huts Btw, did you mean north west Scotland as that’s quite a spread of places you have mentioned. I also used to enjoy visiting crianlarich hostel. When I lived in Edinburgh it offered a quick getaw...

I've been asked to organise a trip for 6-10 reasonably experienced and fit walkers next spring, staying a few nights in a self-catered hostel or bunkhouse. Looking at options I was disappointed to see quite a few of the places I've stayed before have either shut or become expensive since covid, so I...

I do know that Iain Thow has - rather remarkably - completed the equivalent "Munro Appendix" list. He worked all these out for himself (there are lots of them, possibly somewhere around 200 although I could be wrong), and he has a different name for them - SCRANs? Do you know if this list...

On Saturday 22nd October 2022, a group of friends and I climbed Schiehallion. A first for all of us, but for me it was also a last; my final Munro, number 282. Journey's end. And what a journey it's been. I wrote a few months ago in the general forum about my struggles with depression following the ...

You felt at once unwanted, unwelcome, but also like you were wrestling with the crowds who would normally go to Ibiza and the fallout of that. Agreed, that sense of being unwelcome didn't help and I still feel it - whereas prior to lockdown I'd regularly stop in at random pubs or cafes I passed on ...

Thank you to everyone who shared how the lockdown has affected them. It sucks, but it's good to know that I'm not the only one who's found it difficult to jump back into the mountains post lockdown! I appreciate all the suggestions and anecdotes.

I don't know if you want advice or if your just looking to vent and I wouldn't want to say that what helped me will help you, you'll need to find that for yourself, but I'll pass any advice on if its requested. Good luck, I truly hope you get the motivation back :) If you have advice I'd appreciate...

Apologies in advance for what's likely to be a somewhat jumbled post. Basically, I used to spend a huge amount of my free time in the hills. That started during University and continued after graduation right up to the first lockdown (where I was hiking around Loch Arkaig when the first lockdown in ...

It's easily done! A few years ago 5 of us didn't bother to check our compasses at the bealach between Cairn Toul and the Devil's Point and managed to climb Cairn Toul a second time :roll: which left us without the daylight to do the Devil's point. I remember bailing off Maol Chean-Dearg in poor visi...

Been a few years since I was last in the area (2017 I think

) but I remember being astonished at how remote upper Bowderdale felt, considering it's still in the dales. One of my favourite places to walk in England for sure.

The main "cheating" chatter I've been hearing in the past two or three years has tended to relate to e-bikes. Which unless you are using an e-bike in a time trial or a race is a ridiculous thing to say. How is it possible to cheat by the very definition of the word using an e-bike for a u...

Maybe this one - Go Ewe Private Hire · https://www.facebook.com/GoEwePrivateHire/ Based on your and Tringa's suggestions I will give him a ring, thanks! We'll be staying the night before in Kinlochewe so arranging a time for a pickup is no bother. I would suggest trying the Dingwall taxis. I'll tak...

I'm planning a walking trip post-lockdown which will finish in Kinlochewe. The bus isn't running on the day of the week we're planning to head back, and it's not feasible for my walking partner to wait for it so we'd like to book a Taxi to take us to Achnasheen station for the train back. Can anyone...

If you get beyond Ben Dearg or if you cross the Tarf, the sense of isolation increases. The ground's featureless and you have days you don't see anyone. Last time I left Carn a' Chlamain, heading west towards Dearg, I was aware of two walkers ahead of me. I lost them in the mist but I'm pretty sure...

I am going to compleat (minus Schiehallion for reasons) this year if it kills me. I had every intention of compleating last year, in the end I still managed ~30 new munros. With just 22 + 1 left I'm tempted to just take a week off as soon as we're free again and blitz as many as I can by myself. I'd...

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Re: Recommendations for hostels in southwest highlands

Recommendations for hostels in southwest highlands

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Schiehallion, Compleation.

Re: Losing motivation to visit the hills

Re: Losing motivation to visit the hills

Re: Losing motivation to visit the hills

Losing motivation to visit the hills

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Re: The Calf and Calders from Bowderdale

Re: Starting from a high Carpark - cheat or not?

Re: Taxis around Kinlochewe Area?

Taxis around Kinlochewe Area?

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