Its been an incredibly busy time since my last post, long days at work and weekends walking all over the place. I will quickly say that I'm off again tomorrow for the start of the TGO Challenge. Crossing Scotland starting from Shiel Bridge on the West coast and finishing on the East coast at St Cyrus. You can track my progress either by looking at the small map to the right or clicking the location link at the top right of the page for a larger
Outdoors
A 103-post collection
Loch Lomond Adventure
I probably wont have time to write up the weekends trip to Loch Lomond for a couple of days. So I made a very poor video until I get time to do a full trip report. Better in 720p rather than the 380p embeded here:
Suilven, best mountain in the UK?
I decided a few weeks ago that over the easter weekend would be a good time to head further north into Scotland. I hadn't decided exactly where I wanted to go, but one mountain shouted out to me over anything else "SUILVEN". Twice last year I drove up through Sutherland and stared in awe of probably the most beautiful mountain in the UK? Even though in the back of my head this is where I wanted to go, I didn't want to say this in case
Never Stand Still
The last few weeks I don't seem to of had any time to sit and relax, read and enjoy life other than when out walking. Once I've got back home I've either been working or planning the next trip. I need to write a post about how the gear performed on the WHW and the other walks I've done recently, but that may take a while to write. Last weekend I went to Newton Stewart and the Galloway hills to meet up with Phil while he
WHW - Day 8 – The End
The alarm went off at 7am and I jumped out of bed so it didn't wake everyone else in the place, both of us were keen to have breakfast quickly and get set away. Luckily we were first for breakfast, beating the large group also staying by a few minutes. The track out of Kinlochleven started a few yards from the hotel, climbing steeply up the bank side and continued gaining height quite rapidly. The weather was damp with cloud at 2200 feet again. Today though