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Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainers
Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainers
by The Rodmiester » Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:56 am
Route description: Mount Keen from Glen Esk
Munros included on this walk: Mount Keen
Date walked: 19/08/2015
Time taken: 4.25 hours
Distance: 17.64 km
Ascent: 737m
10 people think this report is great. Register or Login free to be able to rate and comment on reports (as well as access 1:25000 mapping).Today was forecasted for the best weather of the week so with the Grandkids up from the South it was time to add to their Munro tally. As they had insufficient baggage room to pack their walking boots Mount Keen with a track and good path to the summit was to be the chosen hill. Glen Esk was chosen as the starting point to save a drive around to the North side.
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- Family group taken at the summit shelter by James, thanks again James hope you got home safely
Last edited by The Rodmiester on Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by Petr Dakota » Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:29 am
Hi Rod, thanks for this report
Mount Keen is on my list of the Munros I want to do with my daughter Cheyenne soon
Happy to see how is it there now
Superb report and sure great family walk !




Superb report and sure great family walk !





Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by AbbsFooty » Sat Aug 22, 2015 6:25 pm
Great report RodMeister! It was a lovely walk with you and the family 

Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by jamesan89 » Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:53 am
Hi Rod,
It was a fine day and Mount Keen certainly expected by expectations with great views over to Lochnagar and the Aberdeenshire coast! I hope you and your family all enjoyed it and I made it back safely! - Thanks for the summit photo!
Cheers
James
It was a fine day and Mount Keen certainly expected by expectations with great views over to Lochnagar and the Aberdeenshire coast! I hope you and your family all enjoyed it and I made it back safely! - Thanks for the summit photo!
Cheers
James
Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by The Rodmiester » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:38 pm
jamesan89 wrote:Hi Rod,
It was a fine day and Mount Keen certainly expected by expectations with great views over to Lochnagar and the Aberdeenshire coast! I hope you and your family all enjoyed it and I made it back safely! - Thanks for the summit photo!
Cheers
James
Hi James, we all really enjoyed our day, we picked well for the weather. It was an action all go week as you can imagine.


Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by BlackPanther » Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:27 am
Glen Esk looks nice time of the year, with heather in bloom everywhere
We did MK from the other side also in August, two years ago, I think it was, and Glen Tanar was a sea of purple. We actually enjoyed the walk-in more than the climb itself
For us, the Esk approach is the inconvenient one (too far to drive).
I miss the hills already and thinking about another month without them...


We did MK from the other side also in August, two years ago, I think it was, and Glen Tanar was a sea of purple. We actually enjoyed the walk-in more than the climb itself

I miss the hills already and thinking about another month without them...


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Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by The Rodmiester » Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:29 pm
BlackPanther wrote:Glen Esk looks nice time of the year, with heather in bloom everywhere![]()
We did MK from the other side also in August, two years ago, I think it was, and Glen Tanar was a sea of purple. We actually enjoyed the walk-in more than the climb itselfFor us, the Esk approach is the inconvenient one (too far to drive).
I miss the hills already and thinking about another month without them...![]()
Sorry to hear about the lack of hills BP, hope your back very soon, Rod
Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by mountain thyme » Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:44 pm
Poor Noddy. Did he not feel left out 

Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by The Rodmiester » Tue Aug 25, 2015 4:52 pm
mountain thyme wrote:Poor Noddy. Did he not feel left out




Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by Mountainlove » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:08 pm
Cracking day you had and how lovely to take the family. Good to know about the foot wear 

Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by The Rodmiester » Wed Aug 26, 2015 3:59 pm
Mountainlove wrote:Cracking day you had and how lovely to take the family. Good to know about the foot wear
We were very lucky with the day Mountainlove, there have been very few good hill days this Summer, so it was nice for the family to enjoy. In fact they had not a bad week full stop with only one rainy day which we went to the swimming pool.
Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by dogplodder » Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:37 pm
Lovely report of day out with the grands. 

Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by The Rodmiester » Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:42 pm
dogplodder wrote:Lovely report of day out with the grands.
It was thanks dogplodder, pity there was no time to do others

Re: Mount Keen, fine to climb with your only pair of trainer
by AbbsFooty » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:31 am
Hi TheRodMeister, when are you going up a hill next, so I can check your next reports. Your reports are amazing!!! 

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