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Found around lunchtime today a little to the west of Ben Cleuch summit in the Ochils, a child's dragon-style green welly complete with teeth and eyes (child size 5). I then met two young women who had earlier met a man carrying a child on his shoulders and also carrying the other welly. I changed de...

Found today on Ben Ever in the Ochils: a pair of spectacles in a brown case.

Still have a set of T shirts and am missing just issue 1. (Missed it by 1 day at Nancy's hostel) Copies of TAC1 are pretty rare. I only have two at most, possibly just one - retained two full sets then discovered a couple of years ago that one of the regular contributors didn't have TAC1 so gave hi...

Anyway, it all feels long ago and far away - TAC basically petered out just as social media took over the world. Drifting wildly off topic. There must be one more Lachlan story. “Lachlan and the Ocihils Ptarmigan” had a nice ring to it.. Ha ha, I'll mention it to Grant. I'm pretty sure I heard the ...

Oh no - another illusion shattered. Next you will be telling me that the Viz letters are not all real. Ha - occasionally someone would describe TAC as the hillwalkers' Private Eye, but I - and I think Warbeck too - tended to think of it as more like the hillwalkers' Viz, largely because we were jus...

Given the (sadly missed) subversive editorial policy of The Angry Corrie , it wouldn't at all surprise me if that letter was, let's say, inauthentic. No, it was a genuine letter. We did occasionally make up letters for entertainment value, but they were usually pretty obvious and that wasn't one of...

A9: Deer Stalker Diner - Dalwhinnie (all day) - Good all day food, decent portions but has got a bit pricey in recent times. Is that the same place (or a conversion thereof) that used to be the truck stop cafe? I ate in there in 1984 (!) after a few days spent camping in the hills in a heatwave and...

You are not alone with the Doro - nice and chunky, and much harder to drop frorm arthritic hands! I've had more than one person say to me it's the kind of phone you give to your elderly parent when they're in the care home and need to keep in occasional touch! I got my Doro quite wet recently - was...

A basic Casio? A man of your cal-eye--burr? I had you down as Patek Philippe man... :shock: Nah, I'm very old-school. Don't have a smartphone, for instance, just a big-buttons Doro thing that does phone and text. Not really any gadgets at all, eg have never used a GPS. I keep a note of timings on t...

If anyone finds an old strapless basic Casio digital watch somewhere between the summit of Ben Cleuch in the Ochils and the Ben Ever col, please let me know. I dropped it on the afternoon of Friday 3 November. I checked the time as I left the top of Cleuch, then must have tried to put it in a pocket...

Glen Devon was busy Sat 14/10 but met nobody, I was north of the road. Was glad to dodge the pheasant shoot that I saw below me from the summit of The Law. That Law - the lower, rarely climbed one - is the only place in the Ochils I've ever seen an eagle. I was approaching the col over the back one...

I dont think there's anything elitist about wanting a bit of solitude in the hills. Neither do I - although, as mentioned earlier, personally I like to see hills at least moderately busy, and I don't get annoyed if a hill turns out busier than expected - if anything it amuses/interests me. My gripe...

[Yeah, good talking to you today Dave. No frost, just the way the camera caught the light. Nice conditions , but understandably wet underfoot ( manageable though ). Great, well met. Think the wind eased into the afternoon - we had it quite blowy along the outward track, and the far end definitely f...

I was on the same hills today with a couple of pals. Was it you we chatted with in the car park at the start, just as you were returning and we were setting off? Nice to meet you if so. We went along to the end of the Sherup track then up to Tarmangie direct and back along the ridge, nice conditions...

I think you're rather straying into sanctimonious territory with that post. I don't mean to be sanctimonious, but I do feel there's a point to be made about the attitude of quite a few hillgoing folk to other people they meet (and are often apparently annoyed at) when they're out and about. Maybe e...

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