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A Damp and Dreich Cairn William

Route: Cairn William, Pitfitchie Forest, near Alford

Sub 2000s: Cairn William

Date walked: 21/07/2018

Time taken: 4 hours

Distance: 16km

Ascent: 596m

Weather Conditions
The weather was extremely mild and muggy. Lots of dew sitting as we made our way up to the summit made for a soggy ascent - just a good job I decided to stick on the waterproofs! Scenes at the top were... ordinary :lol: and of course it cleared as we came back down :problem:

Walk Experience
As you can probably tell from my above description of the weather conditions, Cairn William was fairly uneventful for us on Saturday, shrouded in low lying, soggy clouds - more like the kind of Scottish Summer we're used to! I was fully aware that it was only a matter of time until we'd luck out with all of the glorious weather we've had for my previous walk reports in recent weeks.

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One thing I will say however - minus the fact we've bagged another hill regardless - is that Cairn William was teeming with all-sorts of wildlife, which made for good fun regardless of the scenery at the top. I'm just glad it wasn't a Munro I dragged myself up in that humidity for those "scenes"! :shock:

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2018

Trips: 6
Distance: 116.5 km
Ascent: 5236m
Munros: 9
Sub2000s: 2

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Trips: 1
Distance: 12.5 km
Ascent: 170m


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