Gareth from Webtogs had a hard time choosing the winners from April's selection of walk reports submitted to Walkhighlands. Here’s what he wrote.
“Both the runner up and winner were hard to choose. From a short list of nine though I'm down to two with the runner up Michael Thompson’s Not so grey in the grey Corries. I know Mikes a pro-photographer so I marked him down a little bit on his photos to give everyone a chance :). You can’t take away from the fact though that the photos are drop dead gorgeous! What really impressed me however was the quality of the writing. Warmly funny, engaging and descriptive, it’s a fantastic report.
Top of the pops though this month people is Nostalgia time in the Cairngorms by Mrs Santa. This blew up so many memories for me and for a lot of other folks too from the looks of things. Having used Instagram heavily over the last year or so it took me a while to realise these were proper sepia tinged efforts rather than iPhone induced ones. The history of the various bothies over the years was awesome and the words beanfeast conjoured up culinary memories I had long hoped buried. A deserved winner.
I’m not quite done though, there are lots of reports that need to be mentioned in dispatches that I thought were awesome and were unlucky to just miss out on the cut. The Horns Herald by Gammylegwalker was near the top, Completing 100 Munros is a major achievement and he’s done it with style and a story behind it. My best wishes to you, your other half and for the next 100 Munros. The two reports on the ring of Steall were fabulous reads and several photo reports were top drawer including Sunrise from the Cobbler’s Central Peak, Fantastic Fersit 5 – Woodsy hits the Century!! and
Each month Walkhighlands offers the chance to win up to £90 worth of vouchers to spend with online outdoor gear retailer Webtogs.