North Goatfell and Goatfell from Corrie

[Mama Bean]

Having snooped around this site for a while, thought I should post something for my home hills on Arran, where I do most of my wandering. This wee outing was the first of the year, and with the hills just out the back, it was an easy choice of day... Pea-souper down here, high pressure to boot, wee one in school.

Down there...

It didn't take long to leave the cotton wool behind...

And up there...

Up through Coire Lan and onto North Goatfell...

Glen Sannox under the mire...

The views were just peachy... clouds flirting with everything in sight, bar us (which is always nice)

Thick mobile blankets seeping over the Beinns...

Obscuring Cir Mhor and lapping at The Castles...

Looking over to The Divine Goat

and the torrs of Stacach

Time for a bit of scrambling and also a twitch of excitement at the prospect of a you know what! Looking back to the north, the cloudage clears for a minute...

Cir Mhor makes an appearance...ish

Then...

here it comes...

As the wisps start to flow in, I grab Elsa and we both get in on the action...

Brocken Twins

Needless to say, we nearly gushed our knickers. First one for both of us
We summit onto Goatfell where there are four guys, none remotely impressed with our sighting, which they could have shared by moving 20 yards down the hill. Showed them my snaps...nada. Weirdos. Anyway, we were full of it and when the grouches had left... Right from the top... we got MORE!!

The sun was definitely shining right on us!

And Elsa celebrated with a handstand of glee...

Time to head back down the tourist path... stopping for a satsuma on the shoulder...

Looking down over Brodick Bay...

Then back down into that to pick up Bean from school...

mmm... inviting...

It's a real privilege to live with these Arran hills on my doorstep... to be able to pick and choose my days in them and watch them endlessly. They might be wee, but they pack a punch!
So there it is... my first report. Hope it works and that someone sees it! It's quite tricky writing something without being really rude and doing lots of swearing, but if I can get the photos to load considerably more rapidly, I might do it again.

[dooterbang]

Brilliant

Some fab photos from what looked a great day.

You're very lucky to have such hills on your doorstep.

I've yet to visit Arran but will do this summer for some cycling and scrambling

Great first Trip Report.

[tomyboy73]

well done mama bean, great pics and report. I was equally impressed with my spectre, some folk just don`t get it

[ChrisW]

Great report, loved it. Can't understand the weirdos either.....reckon they were jealous

[Milesy]

Wow very nice! Love the inversion!!

Cant wait to get back to Arran.

[rockhopper]

Cracking stuff

Very jealous....not just the pictures...........but also wish I could do a handstand

[tango]

A great report, like the cut of your jib too... .I had a chance of a Brocken back in October in the Lakes,& guess what?? camera didn't want to play ball "git"...

[Paul Webster]

Wow, that's absolutely fantastic! What a first post....

It's quite tricky writing something without being really rude and doing lots of swearing, but if I can get the photos to load considerably more rapidly, I might do it again.

Oooh - I wonder if you uploaded your original sized photos in full resolution. If so, it will have taken ages . It is much quicker if you resize your photos first to 640 pixels wide (you can use something like Picasa to make smaller versions of them all at once). If you do that they will upload loads faster

[malky_c]

Brilliant - great photos. These would be great hills to have on your doorstep

[Mama Bean]

Aw... Cheers y'all. What a friendly bunch.
Mr Webster... thou speakest foreign language but I shall persevereth...
Have also been trying like a bear to get a profile pic up...

[FMCKIE]

I remember this day the Arran mountains looked stunning sticking out of the clouds. It was a grim day down at sea level though. Lucky sod living on Arran. Im just across the water and been climbing there since a school boy. Love the place.

BTW : I was amazed to see that I can see the Arran mountains from my work in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire!

[soulminer]

A fine day you had,terrific photos and a well deserved 'handstand of glee' from Elsa.
Have Arran planned for this year sometime so say hello if you pass
Cheers

[baggervance]

Mama - great first report with some cracking pics.

I come over to Arran every year in the first week of May with my other half and our dogs. I love climbing in those hills - truly Scotland in minature

BV

[Merry-walker]

Loved this report and fabulous photies.


Them people just don't get it

[CarolB]

Loved your report and the photos are fab!!
We're very lucky to have this on our back door!!