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Re: How to get hill fit - Meall Ghaordaidh & Ben Cruachan

Great Report and Photos. Is that stile as ricketty as it used to be? Last time I was there I crawled through the dog gate on the way home :lol: . I also think it's sad that everyone heads off round to the other rather undistinguished Munro., while Stob Dearg - The Taynuilt peak - a very worthy objec...
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Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:14 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
Topic: How to get hill fit - Meall Ghaordaidh & Ben Cruachan
Replies: 4
Views: 493

Glacier, Yellowstone and the Tetons

Having driven from Vancouver to visit my friends in Calgary, I headed South In Giulia - the first of the fifteen Alfas that I have owned (devil you know :lol: :lol: ), with no fixed itinerary in mind. As it was a very long time ago, I have used Google lens to try and identify some of the pictures: I...
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Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:51 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Glacier, Yellowstone and the Tetons
Replies: 1
Views: 176

Re: The 2024 Season Has Started

When we did the TGO walk in about 2006, we camped by the Mounth road and descended the Shank of Inchgrundle - what a wonderful name :D :D - in perfect weather . We carried on down Glen Mark , stayed at a place specially arranged by TGO for the event, and the next day headed over the Hill of Wirren t...
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Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:53 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
Topic: The 2024 Season Has Started
Replies: 6
Views: 478

Re: Garibaldi Lake and the Black Tusk

Whistler was a car park and three ski-lifts, and the road leading to it from Vancouver still had dirt sections.. Damn, there's been some changes since this hike. I would have loved to see it before the commercialisation of the area. Looks stunning. The pictures are so beautiful, with the combinatio...
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Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:32 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Garibaldi Lake and the Black Tusk
Replies: 2
Views: 459

Garibaldi Lake and the Black Tusk

Map01.jpg Above is a modern day map (courtesy Fatmaps) of the stunningly beautiful Garibaldi national Park just South of Whistler ski resort in British Columbia. Today there are designated camp sites etc etc, but when I went there in Summer 1966 for a weekend camping trip with Vern - a native Canad...
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Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:15 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Garibaldi Lake and the Black Tusk
Replies: 2
Views: 459

Re: Five Hills from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Langdale,

Yes, and runnerless leads of VS's on a secondhand half weight hemp rope. I did all my hard rock routes before I went up to university aged eighteen, when I was immortal. 😸 At some point common sense must have taken over. I had an 11mm nylon rope - hawser laid of course - but as you say almost no pr...
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Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:53 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Five Hills from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Langdale,
Replies: 13
Views: 2363

Re: Five Hills from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Langdale,

I used to solo Middlefell buttress every time I waas there. Quickest way to Gimmer Crag, used it often. Must have been annoying to the novices being given their first roped rock experience when we bombed past.😸 Yes that was in the days before harnesses, helmets and rockboots - but lots of lovely Se...
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Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:58 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Five Hills from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Langdale,
Replies: 13
Views: 2363

Re: Five Hills from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Langdale,

Thanks for the report Sgurr, took me right back to the start of my climbing life in my teenage years. I probably first did that round when I was sixteen, over sixty years ago and lastly in 1992. You have now spurred me on to go back and climb Bowfell again before my knees give out for good. Mention...
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Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:55 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Five Hills from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Langdale,
Replies: 13
Views: 2363

Re: Quick Ben Chonzie in the snow

Yes Glen Turret approach so much nicer - the ice age moraines the best I've ever seen - but my car broke a spring on the bad section at the top of the road :lol: At least in winter the stones on the Landrover track from Lednock are covered. They seem to be perfectly sized to make wallking as unpleas...
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Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:18 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
Topic: Quick Ben Chonzie in the snow
Replies: 6
Views: 793

Re: Monte Leone

Yes
The Alps are becoming more and more dangerous. No doubt, when the hut was in its heyday, the summit was a simple snowplod up the North side on firm neve at maybe 35 degrees
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Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:49 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Monte Leone
Replies: 2
Views: 2516

Re: The incredible power of awe - Sgor Gaoith winter summit

Amazing report and pics - :clap: :clap: So glad it seems you have overcome Long covid. I did this route in Summer many years ago, when I could manage 30k or so in a day - but didn't carry a camera. it is mentioned in WH "For the adventurous, it is possible to climb the mountain from Loch Einich...
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Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:13 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
Topic: The incredible power of awe - Sgor Gaoith winter summit camp
Replies: 31
Views: 6980

Monte Leone

3553m Monte Leone stands on the Swiss- Italian border just E of the Simplon pass., and gets its name from its (vague) resemblance to one of Landseers lions in Trafalgar square ML00.jpg Monte Leone from near Belalp in the valley at the foot of the Aletsch glacier After our traverse of the Petit Dent ...
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Sun Dec 24, 2023 7:23 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Monte Leone
Replies: 2
Views: 2516

Re: Dufourspitze - climbing Switzerland's highest mountain

Thanks all for the comments. I'd actually attempted Zumsteinspitze the previous year with a group, but we were beaten back by strong winds and made do with the Signalkuppe instead. The traverse from Dufour looks pretty serious (AD or AD+) and needs good conditions. The last I heard about the traver...
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Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:05 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Dufourspitze - climbing Switzerland's highest mountain
Replies: 6
Views: 1008

Re: Dufourspitze - climbing Switzerland's highest mountain

Great report and amazing photos :clap: :clap: :clap: - particularly the one over the sea of cloud. When I did it , from Rotenboden, we slithered down about 3m of Moraine, crossed the dry glacier and climbed easily to the (old) hut. The following day we saw not a crevasse just 8 hours of snow slopes ...
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Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:06 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Outside Scotland
Topic: Dufourspitze - climbing Switzerland's highest mountain
Replies: 6
Views: 1008

Re: An Cù .Tha na laithean a' dol Seachad... the days flash

I think it was Betjeman who remarked that one of the saddest things about life was the number of pets that we outlived. It's very true. I was quite distraught when our lovely Rough Collie, Prince developed some awful tumour and had to be put down. But at least today we can remember them in lots of p...
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Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:40 pm
 
Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
Topic: An Cù .Tha na laithean a' dol Seachad... the days flash past
Replies: 26
Views: 2355
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