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Ben Nevis via CMD Arrete – 6 Sep 2024
With another hot day forecast, it would have been good to have set out early – but, this being a Hillbillies walk, Dave insisted on sticking to the usual 9.50am starting time. As a result, we were sweltering right from the start. The slog up to Carn Mor Dearg felt long and punishing, but when…
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Bidean nam Bian and Stob Coire Sgreamhach – 5 September 2024
The weekend of the CMD arrete hike had finally arrived. The hike was planned for Saturday but with glorious weather forecast for Friday, I’d booked the day off work and drove up to Tyndrum on Thursday evening, heading up to Glencoe early on Friday to tackle the two Munros that I had seen nicknamed “Bidean…
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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…
Adventures in South America and Scotland 