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.
It didn't take long to leave the cotton wool behind...
Up through Coire Lan and onto North Goatfell...
The views were just peachy... clouds flirting with everything in sight, bar us (which is always nice)
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...
Then...
As the wisps start to flow in, I grab Elsa and we both get in on the action...
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...
Then back down into that to pick up Bean from school...
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.