(By Tom Evans) For me it was a route on the ‘to have done’ list, yet to convince myself I was prepared to put it on the ‘to do’ list especially with only 1 Gogarth experience under my harness. Anyway on the Thursday I was relaxing down the pub the… Continue reading
The journey took several days; possibly weeks. At last, in the hidden recess high in the mountains, the pilgrim crouched and spent hours or days chipping an image into the hardest rock. Two hundred generations afterwards, I crouch in the same position with my camera. Across the unfathomable gulf of… Continue reading
Gerti Sillaber plied us with schnapps at her Pension. “Welcome to Tirol” she said. We have two days of sunny weather to come, but that looks like being our entire summer !! ” In the event, Loch, Dolly and I did rather better than that:- we had to shuffle the… Continue reading
With 3 weeks in Grindelwald, we had high hopes for this year’s trip to the Alps. The Eiger (via the Mittellegi ridge) was high on the list, as was the Mönch traverse, the Jungfrau via the Inner Rottal ridge, and the Finsteraarhorn. However, the weather had other ideas… I once… Continue reading
Here are just 5 pictures from a trip made by Paul Walkington, Michael and myself across An Teallach on a glorious day at the end of May. The “standard route” – clockwise from Dundonnell is not a huge distance round (about 15km) but it is a 1300 metre day. The… Continue reading
STREAP an 1100 metre Corbett Another little-known gem, out west on the Road to the Isles. Streap is tucked away between the famous Curryhully Horseshoe, and Gulvain, its Munro neighbours to either side. This is one of Ralph Storer’s “Best 100” and I’ve had my eye on… Continue reading
ACROSS ARDGOUR This all began with idly gazing at the road map. On the other side of Loch Linnhe from the Fort William road, and south of Rathad nan Eilean – the Road To The Isles – there stretch westwards those rocky and sparsely-inhabited peninsulae leading all the way to… Continue reading
“All the gear and no idea”! After learning to ski earlier this winter, I decided that it was about time I tried out ski touring. After all, I could ski a pisted blue run now – how hard could it be? Mike (a far more experienced skier than I am) was… Continue reading
Catherine had read the weather forecast. She took “Saturday will be a wet day” rather too literally, by going full-length into a stream as the advance party of 6 walked up Corrieairack Pass. Praise be to General Wade, for the changing facilities at his nearby bothy ! … Continue reading
