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Culter Fell

Culter Fell


Postby Justdrums » Sun Nov 22, 2020 8:44 pm

Fionas included on this walk: Culter Fell

Donalds included on this walk: Culter Fell

Date walked: 19/04/2015

Time taken: 3 hours

Distance: 8 km

Ascent: 500m

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The map

SettingOff.jpg
Setting Off

TurningTheCorner.jpg
Turning the corner

OntotheTrack.jpg
On to the track

FirstSight.jpg
First sight of the hill

LookingBack.jpg
Looking back down the path

UpALittleHigher.jpg
Up a little higher, looking back down the path

YouSaid.jpg
You said this was the top!

LookingNorth.jpg
Looking North to Gawky

StartToClear.jpg
Starting to clear?

Gathersnow.jpg
Oh no it's not! (clearing that is). Gathersnow hill to the South

Turbines.jpg
Wind turbines to the West. Somewhere!

Head-down.jpg
20 mins later, still not clear so heading down.

Path-somewhere.jpg
Path is down there. Somewhere?

ThaPathdown.jpg
Oh, there's the path.

Cultersnow.jpg
Culter has some snow too.

Glad.jpg
Glad I did not come down that way.

Tinto.jpg
Tinto!
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Re: Culter Fell

Postby iangpark » Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:57 pm

You didn't hear any chainsaws over at Turkey Hill to the NW did you? We were on a chainsaw course just a few hundred m away!
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Re: Culter Fell

Postby Justdrums » Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:43 pm

@iangpark - thanks for responding to my post. To be honest it was a wee while ago and so I can't really remember for sure if I really did hear chainsaws.
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