Your Favourite Views Thread

[Mal Grey]

Good stuff

I have far too many favourites to post them all...

Well, suspect we have time just to add a few every day or two, there are plenty of views out there!

[Sunset tripper]

Great thread Mal and brilliant photos from all.
My favourite views I've had from hilltops are hard to choose. I love seascapes so maybe from Ben More or Ben Buie on Mull. Also hard to beat the view from Suilven.

Here are some pics from Glencoe and Rannoch Moor taken from the roadside on a perfect day. The photos couldn't do it justice.
Views from the A82 ~ January 2018

Not sure of the rules for this thread so I'm going to look up a european favourite view now.

[HalfManHalfTitanium]

A bit of a cliche but this is also one of my favourite views

. by Half Man Half Titanium, on Flickr

And if we are including outside Scotland, this is one that stays in my mind, from my trip to Bolivia back in 2004. A moment of near total exhaustion at over 6000m but the views were worth it.

PICT3104 by Half Man Half Titanium, on Flickr

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[Mal Grey]

Great thread Mal and brilliant photos from all.

Not sure of the rules for this thread so I'm going to look up a european favourite view now.

Rules? Rules? I didn't promise any rules!

Owt goes that's vaguely outdoory and "a view" whatever that means! Let it evolve...

[LoveWalking]

Great thread and some excellent photos!

Heading towards Meall Garbh, this is the view that got me hooked on hillwalking

A few years previously I'd looked longingly at these hills from Gairloch

Never imagining that one day I'd be up there

And from one of my best ever hill days, the view from Beinn Airigh Charr

[CharlesT]

Another non Scottish one

[Mal Grey]

I'm going to add one from more distant lands.

Not the most spectacular or beautiful view I've ever had, but this was from a lone wander up a modest mountain, Bustvalen, on the Swedish/Norwegian border above Lake Rogen, 5 days in to a 12 day paddling trip across this landscape of rock and water. The view showed me the route we had come on the left, and that we had ahead of us, leaving the lake on the right, from on high rather than from water level. A wild landscape without a single road or settlement. It brought home to me just how far from others I was, apart from my 3 companions camped down on the lake.

[Skyelines]

The fact that everyone seems to have numerous favourite views suggests to me that the appreciation of the view also has a lot to do with the particular experience of the place at the time.
Sometimes the view does not need to big, sometimes the smaller scale has the same effect.

[nigheandonn]

Does anyone want to join me in admitting a liking for... less exotic views? (Domestic isn't the right word, but I can't think what is!) It's not that I haven't seem some spectacular views from the hills, but I don't know that favourite is the right word for the things I've stumbled on once.

Looking over Tarbert from the war memorial, looking to the Cowal shore from the viewpoint above the castle... Edinburgh and the Forth from Allermuir, if you must have a hill view, but really Blackford Hill is at least as good. Things I probably don't have pictures of, because I just look at them...

[Mal Grey]

Does anyone want to join me in admitting a liking for... less exotic views? (Domestic isn't the right word, but I can't think what is!) It's not that I haven't seem some spectacular views from the hills, but I don't know that favourite is the right word for the things I've stumbled on once.

Looking over Tarbert from the war memorial, looking to the Cowal shore from the viewpoint above the castle... Edinburgh and the Forth from Allermuir, if you must have a hill view, but really Blackford Hill is at least as good. Things I probably don't have pictures of, because I just look at them...

Great point.

One of my very favourite views is very local, a little spot by the river, where I can just sit and stare at the water, or across the scrubby meadow where the owls fly. Photographically, nothing much, but its part of being IN the landscape not just looking at it.

[jmarkb]

but really Blackford Hill is at least as good

I'm seeing a lot of the view from Blackford Hill and Braid Hills these days - really very good. On a clear day you can see Ben Lomond, the Crianlarich Hills, Beinn a Ghlo and the Isle of May.

[Sgurr]

There are some places which we often dismiss as you can get them from your car

Ballachuilish


And Rannoch Moor

[jmarkb]

There are some places which we often dismiss as you can get them from your car

Possibly my favourite roadside viewpoint (Loch Cul Dromannan on the main road north of Ullapool):

[Sgurr]

There are some places which we often dismiss as you can get them from your car

Possibly my favourite roadside viewpoint (Loch Cul Dromannan on the main road north of Ullapool):

Wonderful

[nigheandonn]

Here's Blackford - Easter Sunday two years ago.

Calton Hill occurs to me now as another view out of all proportion to the effort it takes to get it.

Corstorphine is my local hill, but there are too many trees about. The double view - Fife and the Pentlands - from the top of Drumbrae is better, or even from the top of the road down to Cammo.