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Re: Weather apps

mwis and bbc for me, although the older I get the more I realise that unless the forecast is dire and has been for days, it's sometimes worth just having a go against a classic bbc hedging 'showers and sunny intervals' forecast
by OpenC
Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:04 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Weather apps
Replies: 5
Views: 1068

Ben Nevis Tourist Route

Every once in a while, generally every five years or so, i head to Achintee and climb the Ben by the 'tourist route'. I maintain that it's unfairly maligned and just because CMD is better and it gets busy doesn't make it a bad walk. Can think of plenty Munros I'd happily drop Nevis style zigzags ont...
by OpenC
Sat Aug 29, 2020 5:54 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Ben Nevis Tourist Route
Replies: 1
Views: 744

Re: Ultimate guide to the munros vol. 5

Bump I guess this has run out before it reached the Western Highlands, then. Real shame, it was a series I enjoyed a lot and it never let me down - best books I know for describing potential difficulties on routes. As I posted seven years ago, I can understand people not approving - his writing is n...
by OpenC
Fri Aug 28, 2020 9:16 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Ultimate guide to the munros vol. 5
Replies: 11
Views: 8207

Re: Os maps

I've used viewranger for years and now you can subscribe to OS mapping with it (albeit for a pound a month more than the OS app) I can't imagine using anything else. In other news i submitted an amendment to the OS about a wrongly positioned sea stack on the north east coastline and after a couple o...
by OpenC
Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:11 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Os maps
Replies: 9
Views: 2481

Re: Winter - how did you learn?

Really interesting reading. I've always been a solitary walker so had to do it all myself through reading what I could and gauging conditions as best I could. Discovered the need for winter equipment coming down off Scafell Pike one day when there had been no snow from bottom to top but coming back ...
by OpenC
Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:52 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Winter - how did you learn?
Replies: 26
Views: 4673

Re: Dogs in the hills

Of my three cockers, Milllie went until she was 11 (last one was Sgor Gaoith from Glen Feshie, and she was fine - she died just a few weeks later after a three or four hour day in the Cheviots). Maisie was always a lazier dog and although I had her around Cairn Gorm by the Goat Track when she was ab...
by OpenC
Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:02 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Dogs in the hills
Replies: 10
Views: 2553

Re: What do people think is the easiest and hardest route up

I did these ones a different way - a four of Carn Tuirc, Tolmount, Tom Buidhe,and Carn of Claise from the layby to the North, and a two of Creag Leacach and Glas Maol from the ski centre. Both of them were easy and sedate days. I took a different route than the obvious one up Carn Tuirc, though, rou...
by OpenC
Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:11 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What do people think is the easiest and hardest route up to
Replies: 2
Views: 1135

Re: Opinion on ways to tackle northernmost 4

Well, to each their own of course :) I suspect even a sparkling winter ascent wouldn't change my mind about it, but I can understand people approving of that sort of area. I couldn't agree more that the area needs to be savoured rather than just rushed through, though. The thought of people racing u...
by OpenC
Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:00 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Opinion on ways to tackle northernmost 4
Replies: 18
Views: 5002

Re: Where's the picture ? - Scotland (part 3)

I can't even remember, to be honest :lol: It's definitely not Schiehallion, though, which was cloudy when I climbed it :) From the flatness beyond, I think it might be the first top of Ben Vorlich (Loch Earn), but I wouldn't put money on it :)
by OpenC
Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:01 am
 
Forum: Photo threads, comps and quizzes
Topic: Where's the picture ? - Scotland (part 3)
Replies: 6003
Views: 1172574

Re: Looking for non-vertiginous hills for hubby with vertigo

Beinn a' Chrulaiste at the entrance to Glen Coe is a spectacular way to experience the drama of the area from a completely safe and easy (although the path is sometimes not that easy to follow) environment. The view of the big Buachaille is second to none. I can't even remember the name of the munro...
by OpenC
Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:15 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Looking for non-vertiginous hills for hubby with vertigo!
Replies: 22
Views: 5036

Re: Opinion on ways to tackle northernmost 4

I found pretty much everything about it to be disappointing (the view is nice enough, but not nearly as nice as the one from Ben Hope). The real reason I'll never climb it again is because I live so far away from it, of course - but if I ever find myself in that neck of the woods again and fancy a w...
by OpenC
Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:17 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Opinion on ways to tackle northernmost 4
Replies: 18
Views: 5002

Re: Opinion on ways to tackle northernmost 4

Haven't done Conival or Ben More Assynt yet, but just a note to say that Ben Hope, on the right sort of day, is much too good to rush up and down (Ben Klibreck is most assuredly not, and went straight in at number one on my list of Hills I'll Never Set Foot On Again when I got it out of the way in A...
by OpenC
Tue Oct 08, 2019 11:25 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Opinion on ways to tackle northernmost 4
Replies: 18
Views: 5002

Re: When do you count a Munro?

Interesting discussion. I've often wondered to myself about this, and generally it's these two, Ben Avon and the pinnacle that I end up comparing. I've never been up Ben Avon but I know about the topography and I did wonder to myself about whether people felt the need to climb the rocks like they do...
by OpenC
Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:18 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: When do you count a Munro?
Replies: 77
Views: 14460

Re: Snow cover on Stob Ghabhar and Stob a'Choire Odhair?

I was just up the road in Glencoe on Friday and there are still fairly substantial snow patches on the exits from Coire na Tulaich on Buachaille Etive Mor and the Lost Valley on Bidean nam Bian (both of which are always late-lying because of where they are). Luckily, you can see those from the roads...
by OpenC
Mon May 13, 2019 9:48 am
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Snow cover on Stob Ghabhar and Stob a'Choire Odhair?
Replies: 14
Views: 2835

Re: The Little Things

The supernatural colour of the world below after spending an hour or two among rocks in the clouds. When you drop back below the cloud level and see the green, it's almost unnaturally vibrant.

I'm really badly colourblind but it feels like i have normal colour vision when this happens :)
by OpenC
Sun May 12, 2019 8:39 pm
 
Forum: General discussion
Topic: The Little Things
Replies: 76
Views: 21579
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