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Ailsa Craig - big air and deep water
My friend Douglas and I had a plan to do a day's sea kayaking and hillwalking "somewhere in the Firth of Clyde area" - which gives considerable scope! When our available days coincided with a short period of light winds we exchanged texts and a phone call during one afternoon and arranged ...
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:40 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Ailsa Craig - big air and deep water
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15104
Benaquhallie - another wee one with a wide view
Benaquhallie is just 10 minutes drive from home - in fact I can see the hill from the end of the road but for some reason haven't previously climbed it - which turns out to have been a mistake...... I've tried before to walk over all the high ground from Tillyfourie on the A944 over the Corennie Moo...
- Fri Sep 06, 2013 5:49 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Benaquhallie - another wee one with a wide view
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4151
Re: Amongst the Monadh Ruaidh
Great stuff Alastair, what a super trip.
I keep banging on to folk that these are the hills for long trips, but you have to go to find out!
Kind Regards
Ian
I keep banging on to folk that these are the hills for long trips, but you have to go to find out!

Kind Regards
Ian
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:21 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Amongst the Monadh Ruaidh
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8533
Re: Amazing Corrie Fee
Oh this is lovely Sarah!
In rushing for summits, these places are often bypassed and it's great to slow down and spend some time in corries to absorb a bit of their special nature....
Thanks for posting
Kind Regards
Ian
In rushing for summits, these places are often bypassed and it's great to slow down and spend some time in corries to absorb a bit of their special nature....
Thanks for posting
Kind Regards
Ian
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:40 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Amazing Corrie Fee
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7853
Re: Slow worm
What a lovely sight! They really are pretty creatures
Kind regards
Ian

Kind regards
Ian
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:30 am
- Forum: Wildlife sightings
- Topic: Slow worm
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1542
Mona Gowan round - a view fit for a Queen (or a goat)
A gloriously warm day with a light breeze. Sod the gardening, I thought a local hill would be a better option :wink: Twenty minutes drive from home and I turned off the A944 at the Culfork turning and parked a kilometer or so up the road in a cleared area with space for several cars. http://i466.pho...
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:01 am
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Mona Gowan round - a view fit for a Queen (or a goat)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2405
Re: The colour purple - a short wander up Mount Blair
Thanks Sarah and Morag, it really was a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours
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Kind Regards
Ian

Kind Regards
Ian
- Sat Aug 31, 2013 11:55 am
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: The colour purple - a short wander up Mount Blair
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3200
Re: Blairdenon
That looks a really good walk Sarah, little trodden despite being on the edge of a pretty well populated area. My daughter lives not too far from there - might be one to do next time I'm down that way!
Great first mono image by the way, very atmospheric
Kind Regards
Ian
Great first mono image by the way, very atmospheric
Kind Regards
Ian
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 9:26 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Blairdenon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4850
Re: Mount Battock from Glen Dye
Hi Si,
Blimey, that posh cabin wasn't there last time I was up Clachnaben! It looks like the tracks have been, ahem, "improved" too?
Shooting for the "convenience" generation of Gun I guess ?
Still a good hill though....
Kind Regards
Ian
Blimey, that posh cabin wasn't there last time I was up Clachnaben! It looks like the tracks have been, ahem, "improved" too?
Shooting for the "convenience" generation of Gun I guess ?
Still a good hill though....
Kind Regards
Ian
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:22 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Mount Battock from Glen Dye
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3692
The colour purple - a short wander up Mount Blair
Whilst travelling home from Perthshire, I had a couple of hours spare and as it was a nice day decided on Mount Blair for a quick wander. The B951 road from the A93 to Kirriemuir is currently (Aug 2013) closed at the A93 junction for what looks to be lengthy improvement works, there's an alternative...
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:08 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: The colour purple - a short wander up Mount Blair
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3200
Re: Waxwings at Feshie bridge.
Caberfeidh wrote:walk aboot wrote: I saw them on the trees at Cowcaddens beside the motorway..
There are trees in Cowcaddens ????
Lots of lumber......

- Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:55 am
- Forum: Wildlife sightings
- Topic: Waxwings at Feshie bridge.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1751
Re: An atmospheric afternoon on Coiliochbhar Hill
Thanks all for your comments, it really was a cracker of a day; and all the more pleasing since it had been so grey and unpromising in the morning. Ben, there isn't a track shown on the 1:25K map (sheet 405), though there is obviously some form of access as there's a forest road behind the gate at t...
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:57 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: An atmospheric afternoon on Coiliochbhar Hill
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4734
Re: Findhorn Gorge - Dicing with Death in the Darnaway Fores
Wow, cracking stuff!
I must admit, that boardwalk and "shoogly bridge" would have turned me back too!
Kind Regards
Ian
I must admit, that boardwalk and "shoogly bridge" would have turned me back too!

Kind Regards
Ian
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:02 am
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Findhorn Gorge - Dicing with Death in the Darnaway Forest
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4009
An atmospheric afternoon on Coiliochbhar Hill
On a cold and franky unpromising January day, with heavy snow forecast for the following day, I decided on a local option and got dropped off at a crossroads on the Muir of Fowlis - Glenkindie road at NJ 510129. There is good parking at a forest access just to the north of the crossroads. http://i46...
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:30 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: An atmospheric afternoon on Coiliochbhar Hill
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4734
Re: Mostly downhill on the Correen Hills
Hi denfinella, Thanks - it was pretty nippy! I tried to capture a couple of the snow devils on camera, but they didn't really show up in the images. You're right that this ridge 9and indeed some of the other hills hereabouts) are underrated - but I would say that as I'm fortunate enough to live at t...
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:31 pm
- Forum: Walk reports - Scotland
- Topic: Mostly downhill on the Correen Hills
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3776
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