Towering above Bridge of Orchy on the West highland line, Beinn Dorain and Beinn an Dothaid give a good round which I’ve enjoyed several times, so I was glad to see it amongst Steve Murray’s list. . As my friend Paul W is also Compleat and at large, the choice… Continue reading
The seven Macdonalds were attacking the house, with the woman inside. Until the menfolk returned and killed them. A memorial to this raid of 1620 began our route from Ardvorlich House by Loch Earn. The sky turned glittering blue. After a month of downpours and floods, maybe even the weather… Continue reading
And did some god in ancient time, crash down his battle-axe upon these hills ? You might think so, looking at the great wound of Glen Tilt. It runs for miles from Blair Atholl, a gash one thousand feet deep and mostly, straight as an arrow. Steve M and I… Continue reading
The area of the Dents du Midi -and Dents Blanches adjacent- is sprinkled with at least a dozen mountain huts. Routes through the ranges vary from woodland and alpine pastures to rocky clambering with ropes and chains to hold on, and in one case a 100 foot ladder. My friend… Continue reading
Wild Boar Fell is the fifth highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. A few places above Penyghent at 708 metres but much more off the beaten track and pretty quiet. Worth a few words, perhaps, since we’ve had rather a dearth of mountain reports in our mountaineering club after a… Continue reading
No there were no pasties. And no sausage rolls. Various York MC Members have visited Gregs, though, and some have slept there. Gregs Hut is an open bothy, possibly the highest building to sleep in, in England (??). It is at 730 metres (higher than most English mountain summits) on… Continue reading
Roughly one hundred square miles of moor and mountain, in great part without any tracks or man-made features, sprawl to the south of the road to Ullapool. Here are 10 “Munro” mountain summits, arranged in groups of one, two, three, and four. Angela’s wish to climb the “three” and the… Continue reading
Glen Shiel (holding the road from Inverness to Skye) has perhaps the best collection of narrow ridge walks of any single glen, taken as a whole. I have known the Five Sisters in technical and serious form under hard neve. The Forcan Ridge is amongst the great classic scrambles, (II… Continue reading
So on a website about a MOUNTAINEERING club, why even mention a point merely 487 metres ? Well, there come days to the hills, when cloud and wind pushes onto western slopes, making it difficult to stand up at 700m, the summits shrouded in mist and rain. Against such a… Continue reading
In locations from Crete to Cape Wrath, and Slovenia to Corsica, my friend Steve W and I have managed a September walk these many years. Having previously met GR5 on its way north from Nice, we took a cue from the Chamonix to Geneva section. The intermediate valley of Samoens/Morillon… Continue reading
