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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…
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Ring of Steall and Western Mamores August 2023
This was a weekend in Fort William with the Hillbillies Meetup group; the plan was to do the Ring of Steall on the Saturday, with a day off on Sunday, and Ben Nevis via the CMD arrete on Monday. We were very lucky with the weather for Ring of Steall – the day remained dry…
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Cairnwell 3 Munros – 11 March 2023
This was a very spontaneous weekend trip up to the Cairngorms – the weather in the Lake District bad been depressingly wet and gloomy for what felt like the entire year to date, and the forecast for this weekend was no different. I had been seeing posts on Facebook from Glenshee Ski Centre, whenever a…
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September 2022 weekend adventure
Having experienced the beauty of the western Highlands just a few weeks previously, I decided to head to the Cairngorms for my next adventure. But I once again decided to break the journey up, driving up to Stirling on Friday night and then continuing to Boat of Garten where I booked to stay Saturday and…
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Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis (27 and 28 August 2022)
I didn’t simply wake up one day and decide to embark on a Munro-bagging journey. When I first moved to the Lake District, I worked my way through the Wainwrights, and loved the experience of climbing each of the hills, getting to know the various different villages in the Lakes in the process. And probably…
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The Munros – Introduction
This site was initially set up as a home for my travel memories from an incredible adventure in Chile, Argentina and Peru. But having finally turned the original blog posts into a book with the help of the amazing Pixxibook.com, and having just been billed for another year of website fees (I forgot to turn…
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El Chalten
I’ve been in El Chalten the last few days, doing a final spot of hiking before heading back to Buenos Aires and then home. I had hoped to have a relaxed first day, as I was still feeling quite tired from the previous week’s trekking. But when the day dawned bright and sunny I felt…
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Torres del Paine – O Trek
Day 1 – Central to Seron The first day is a fairly short day with only 13k to walk, over mostly pretty flat terrain. My rucksack felt very heavy indeed, and the weight of it on my back provided plenty of warmth, so that I found in the unexpectedly sunny conditions I was hiking in…
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Punta Arenas / Puerto Natales
The flight to Punta Arenas, via Santiago, was interesting to say the least. I’d checked my suitcase in at Calama and it was tagged through to Punta Arenas, so the 1 hour and 40 minutes connection time I had available at Santiago should have been plenty. But of course we took off an hour late…
Adventures in South America and Scotland 