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Buchaille Etive Mor – 1 September 2024
This was an absolutely superb day, my favourite Munro to date and one I will certainly wish to repeat. It had been on my wish-list for quite some time, having seen lots of stunning pictures and read rave reviews of it from other walkers in the “I am bagging the Munros” Facebook group – and…
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Meall Greigh, Meall Garbh, An Stuc – 31 Aug 2024
This was another last-minute weekend trip – this time driving up to Killin on Friday evening having booked two nights at the Killin Hotel. On Saturday morning I drove the short distance down the road to the Ben Lawers Hotel for the start of the circuit. At this time of the morning the hotel was…
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Lochnagar Circuit – August 2024
The Lochnagar circuit had been on my wish-list since the previous winter when I’d seen some beautiful snowy photos of it, on the “I am bagging the Munros” Facebook page. But I knew it was a long route, with a long walk out at the end, so had been putting it off until I felt…
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July 2024 Weekend 2
Two weeks later I was back in the car, driving up to the Bridge of Cally Hotel on Friday evening after work, then getting up early on Saturday morning to continue on to Glenshee, with the aim of bagging the 6 Munros to the east of the ski centre. I was impressed with the online…
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July 2024 weekend
On 20 April 2024, a day that will be forever etched on my memory, I had a horrendous ski accident, falling down a cliff, dislocating my hip, fracturing my femur and needing to be helicoptered off the mountain to hospital. Thankfully the doctors had reset my hip within hours and I was recovering well, having…
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February 2024 4-day trip
Mount Keen I wasn’t working at this stage and so had been keeping an eye on the weather, and when I spotted what looked like a decent weather window for the eastern side of Scotland, booked a couple of nights at a b&b in Kirriemuir and drove straight up on Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning,…
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November 2023 weekend
Day 1 – Ben Lawers 4 I was in peak fitness at this stage, having just returned from 2 months in Peru, Argentina and Chile, culminating with the O Trek in Torres del Paine National Park. So bagging the 4 Munros of Beinn Ghlas, Ben Lawers, Meall Corranaich and Meall a Choire Leith was a…
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Ben Chonzie
My 25th Munro and the easiest to date – I was up and down in three and a half hours. This was the final Munro on my Scottish road trip, having spent two days exploring Skye and then driven back across to Perth the previous day. Sadly no views from the top, though did manage…
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Scottish Road Trip Day 2 – Aonach Beag and Aonach Mor
Having spent so much time looking at them the previous day, I decided to tackle these two on the Sunday morning. I spent some time reading up on a route that would allow me to continue on to Carn Mor Dearg and the arrete to Ben Nevis, but knew I didn’t have the energy to…
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Scottish Road trip September 2023 – Eastern Mamores
Having never been to Skye before, this trip was aimed at slowly making my way there, bagging a few Munros on the way up, spending a day or two exploring Skye, and possibly bagging more Munros on the way back, subject to weather and energy levels. I drove up to Tyndrum on Friday night, spending…
Adventures in South America and Scotland 