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This discretion over valour notion makes sense, so why did Neil and I set off that morning into the wall of mist and drizzle to do four munros from the parking area at the head of the loch (your car must have been one of those there when we arrived). I too like the idea of approaching a hill via kay...

After 12 years our Munro journey was finally compleated after summiting Ben More on Mull. In that time Neil and I had climbed 263 of these peaks together, thanks for making the journey with me mate. Also thanks to the girls with putting up with us spending so much time away from home on this pursuit...

Looking at the weather forecast we opted for an early start and so left the North Face car park at 06.00. $matches[2] It was still a little chilly and it didn’t look like we would get any sun until we reached the top of CMD. $matches[2] A few days walking in the legs made it feel like a real slog, b...

Sunday saw us do something we never had never previously done on a Munro bagging trip - take a rest day. We had a leisurely drive to Fort William then followed the long and bumpy road along Loch Arkaig to tackle the Glen Dessary four on Monday. $matches[2] This was the part of the trip I had been mo...

We woke to a very misty morning, and couldn’t even see across the loch. our_route.gpx After breakfast we set out for Carn an Righ, it remained claggy and chilly and we didn’t hang around at the top save to take yet another “could be anywhere” misty photo. 0C5A6352-8503-4879-B3AF-485538EE03DC.jpeg De...

After two years stuck on 272 munros, Neil and I finally had the chance to head north again with a week to try and compleat. Our first objective was four from Spittal of Glenshee, but to take account of our lack of fitness we agreed to do these over two days. our_route.gpx We started from the Dalmuzi...

our_route.gpx It has been almost two years since I had a big day out in the hills, COVID primarily had left Neil and I on 272 munros, and we planned to head back up north over Easter to try and do as many of the remaining 10 as possible it seemed a good idea to test ourselves and get a sense of whe...

our_route.gpx The weather forecast for our final day in Glen Carron and Torridon was fairly good, although we were looking for a fairly early start and the skies were still quite overcast. We followed the normal WH route, up past the bothy (which looked like it had been in use recently) and took th...

$matches[2] Other than the long day from Attadale (which we were doing on fresh legs) this is the route that had been weighing on mind all week. I feared that the cumulative effect of five consecutive days walking might be starting to tell, and unlike the previous days were both munros we pretty mu...

$matches[2] For day five we parked the van at the end point for an anti-clockwise round of Beinn Eighe and cycled to the start point. The start is not as steep as Liathach, although the section after Coire an Laoigh stiffens up, and the shale underfoot often makes purchase difficult, so walking pol...

$matches[2] We had initially planned to focus on finishing the munros around Monar before heading to Torridon, but the promise of good weather for Tuesday led us to change our itinerary and head for Liathach. We left our bikes near the end of the route, then drove the van to the start point just ea...

$matches[2] With boots feeling as though they weighed a ton as they were soaked with so much water, we set off from Achnashellach station following the WH route for an anti-clockwise route. The initial short but steep climb from Drochaid Coire Lair is followed by a long trek along the broad ridge t...

$matches[2] After the exertion of day one we both slept in and woke to the pitter-patter of rain on the van roof. We took our time over breakfast, but the weather didn’t look like improving, so at about 11am we set off from the forestry car park at Craig, crossed the road and level crossing and cyc...

$matches[2] After a long drive up from north Wales we parked the van near the start point at the entrance to Attadale Gardens. As thia was to be the longest day in terms of distance covered during the week we had decided to do this first to avoid having to take it on with fatigue in the legs (espec...

Respect for posting this. Would you say that your self-imposed deadline contributed to making planning and on-the-hill decisions which you would not have made otherwise, and are you going to modify it as a result? The self-imposed deadline has had an effect on our planning, but everything we planne...

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Re: Discretion over valour and the birth of a cunning plan

Ben More and no more - compleation on Mull

CMD makes 281

Glen Dessary Four - two to go

Two more from Spittal of Glenshee leaves six to go

Ten to compleat in a week - two from Spittal of Glenshee

Ah yes! That's what a good walk feels like

Maol Chean-Dearg, and then there were 10

Maoile Lunndaidh and Moruisg from Craig

Alone on Beinn Eighe

Liathach, need I say more

Two wet ones from Achnashellach

Oh what a circus - the two Sgorrs from Craig

Cheescake and Mhor from Attadale

Re: Carn Bhac and a lot of wasted effort