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After descending I followed the burn upstream to find the place where it all started, where the seed had been sown. $matches[2] I found the spot, a small hollow by a pool on the Allt Daraich that, over forty years ago, accommodated a handful of tents, two teachers and half a dozen schoolboys who med...

“Are you doing a hill then?” was the predictable question when the details of a family gathering on Arran were discussed. Yet out of sixteen, just three made it to the starting line. Most escaped the island before being caught up in my enthusiasm, and four of the remaining seven opted for a combinat...

Hi Maja Planets having aligned and looks like I'll be heading up to join you - camping Likely to arrive on Skye on Thursday - camp at Sligachan - hope to do Sgurr nan Gilean on Friday - then move round to the WH base for Friday and Saturday night - Bruach na Frithe and Am Bastier for the exercise on...

It’s commonly understood that the more you practise something, the easier it gets. There’s that much vaunted theory about ten thousand hours, and even golfer Lee Trevino observed that the more he practised the luckier he seemed to get. Yet mountains are different. Each and every hill has its own cha...

There are days when you return from the hills with a sense of satisfied weariness, proud of the day’s achievement: you feel as if you’ve been on top of the world, and in your mind you are still there. Yet there are days when something happens that colours even the most impressive experience and puts...

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T S Elliot Sgurr Dubh Mor 16.05.18 14.5km; 1171m; 9h 20m Feeling out of balance, I’d mantleshelfed. Then, pushing up with the flat of one hand on the sloping rock I reached high with the other for a crack above. Finge...

24 hour trip total (1.00pm start and finish) 42km; 1664m ascent 30.04.18 Killian - Iron Lodge (cycle): 13km; 200m ascent; 1h 45m Iron Lodge - camp (@ 314m): 4km; 284m ascent; 1h 30m 01.05.18 Camp - MnD - camp (6.00am start): 8km; 950m ascent; 3h 45m Camp - Iron Lodge: 4km; 90m ascent; 1h Iron Lodge ...

Can anybody report on the condition of any remaining snow on the Cuillin ridge - especially above Coir a Ghrunnda or around An Dorus?

Thanks in anticipation.

OD

My 1969 Silva compass was retired from active service only last year - and the Lake District OS map, bought with a price tag of 8 shillings at the same time, still gets the occasional outing. Otherwise it's a pair of Salewa crampons and a Stubai Manasalu ice axe purchased with what was left of my gr...

20.04.18 Kinlochourn – Barrisdale 11.4km; 390m ascent; 3h 21.04.18 Barrisdale – Luinne Bheinn – Meall Buidhe – Barrisdale – Kinlochourn 30km; 2100m ascent; 12h 20m Knoydart: the word evokes an immediate sense of isolation, remoteness, inaccessibility. Knoydart? The question provokes expectation and...

There are days when you just ache to get out, you’ve whetted the appetite, rekindled the mojo and, despite the promising weather, it’s just not a day when you want to do any clearing up in the garden. And then there’s also new gear from Christmas to try out: mitts with the promise of tropical warmth...

It had taken until February to kick-start my year. And, since last July I’d only been on a couple of Arrochar Corbetts at the tail-end of 2017, I was curious to know how my legs and lungs would fare. So, with the added frustration of early morning traffic jams in Glasgow, on the M80 and around Stirl...

Back in October, discretion was the better part of valour as I avoided the dangers of stalking that were plastered all over the gate at the entrance to the upper reaches of Glen Kinglas. Fortunately there were plenty of other options to pursue that day. With no other outings to the hills since, I wa...

There are days you wished you’d never started, when it might have made more sense to simply turn around. How many things have to go wrong before you succumb to the message? However, it had been three months since I’d last set foot on a hill so I pressed on regardless. In July I’d dragged weary legs ...

Monday 17 July Iverlael to Gate of Ca-derg (below Seana Bhraigh) 3.5h; 12km; 790m Tuesday 18 July Seana Bhraigh to Am Faochagach to Torran Dubh on A835 9h; 23km; 1120m Torran Dubh to Iverlael (bike) 0.5h; 17km Total 13h; 52km; 1950m Seana Bhraigh was always going to be the star of the show. However...

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Sgurr nan Gillean and the demons of doubt

Goatfell: but we didn’t expect that

Re: WH Summer Meet - 13-14 July 2018

Ben More (Mull): and then there was one

Ladhar Bheinn: bitter-sweet Knoydart contrasts

Dubh Mor and Ghreadaidh: Skye and the recurring essence

Mullach na Dheiragain: expectations from Elchaig

Snow on Skye?

Re: What's your oldest piece of kit?

Knoydart: outerworld or underworld

A Lucozade Lolly on Beinn Chuirn

Hidden Horrors on Meal na Fearna

Stob Coire Creagach: a pre-Christmas Corbett

An inauspicious return on Beinn an Lochain

Seana Bhraigh to Am Faochagach: a spoonful of sugar