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Caberfeidh wrote:That's nothing - I have never been near a mountain in my entire life, nor the sea for that matter. I am in fact a fifty-stone Fijiian woman.

You live in Fiji and have never been near the sea?

Which one would make your best hillwalking buddy?

I naively wrote this on March 15th this year.......

CountryFile to me is a bit like an outdoorsy Blue Peter for city dwellers who want a sanitised view of the Great Outdoors with plenty of product placement....

"She's coming round the Mountains when she comes" sang to loud sniggers...

My legs are nearly 65 years old....

The hills and remote places are where we go to be at peace by seeing, hearing and engaging with Nature - remember this when sitting on a hillside - it brings us back to life

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I once spent a happy 9 hours stranded at Rannoch Station in a snow blizzard ....in the old signal box I recall Did ye have to draw straws to decide who was devoured by the others? :shock: I was by myself and a packet of Fig Rolls saved the day! If I had been in a group however, I think knowing my c...

And may I add that a few years later I was interviewed by the police on Rannoch platform who wanted me as a witness following my train ride being interrupted when it hit two men walking on the track rather than walking in the bog of the moor. Both airlifted out and apparently, survived thankfully PS...

I once spent a happy 9 hours stranded at Rannoch Station in a snow blizzard ....in the old signal box I recall

Having my wild camping somewhat curtailed this year I decided to go through my maps and kit as it would please me to do so. A look through my camping stuff buried in my Landy revealed some rather out of date items eg a 4 pack of John Smiths from 2012 and more pertinent I suppose some Look What I Fou...

I am ok with tractors but get me on the subject of horse boxes on wheels well then grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

There seems to be some confusion amongst campervanners as to what is what For example, one English couple told me that they would not pay a local Hebridean hostel trust any money to dispose of their waste 'liquids' as they were in fact 'wild camping'. Obviously the term 'wild camping' is lost on the...

The By The Way campsite is really good.....I guess the local economy could do with a lift!

After 30+ years Hill walking I too got bored with the up and down again routine so I tried to engage more with the environment and the book "Hostile Habitats - Scotlands Mountain Environment" by the Scottish Mountaineering Trust ticked all the boxes. Since then various 'lifetime of hillwal...

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