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December Walk Report of the Month

December Walk Report of the Month


Postby Paul Webster » Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:55 pm

Date walked: 01/01/2011

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December is usually the quietest month of the year for hillwalking, what with the short days and folks being busy with Christmas. But not much slackening off in evidence this year - in spite of there being one week where the hills were almost unreachable for deep snow.... :D

Well, it was especially hard to choose one winner, with a superb first report from mountaineagle, a stack of informative reports on Arran from mountain coward, and an introspective and enjoyable return to Ben Challum by kevsbald, as well as many many more. But this month's winner is an excellent trip up Morrone near Braemar by Alastair S. That's £40 of Tiso vouchers and a first win to Alastair!

Well, that is the very last Tiso walk report of the month. But no fear, as we're glad to announce the new sponsor of our walk reports section is the very highly regarded online outdoors retailer Webtogs. And the even better news is that, not only is the first prize upgraded to £60 to spend at Webtogs, starting in January there will be a runners up prize of £30 too. I'm not sure that will make our choices any easier though 8)
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby Merry-walker » Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:10 pm

FANTASTIC, EXCELLENT :D :lol: :lol: :lol:

Well done Alastair.. Ahhh, Braemar..... 8)
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby dooterbang » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:32 pm

Congratulations.

Brilliant stuff, :D
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby kevsbald » Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:51 am

Well done Al!
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby walk aboot » Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:06 pm

Well done, great report :D .
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby malky_c » Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:29 pm

Top stuff, congratulations :D
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby Alastair S » Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:33 am

Just got back from Kintail this afternoon to this very pleasant surprise - thanks Paul & everyone for the kind comments :D
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby Stretch » Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:35 am

Nice job Alastair, I actually showed some visiting family members here in the US some of your pics and this was one of the reports. Congrats!
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby Alan S » Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:58 pm

Well done Alastair great report 8)
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Re: December Walk Report of the Month

Postby rockhopper » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:45 pm

Cracking report Alastair - well deserved ! :clap:
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