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Good Morning from Scotland

Stob Ban Morning Mist by Russell Davies

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Hiking in the hills to find Meanach

Hiking in the Highlands with @ianwilli #Highlands #Scotland #Meanach

I have had the unpleasant feeling for years now, that I regret doing the things in life that are sensible and rational, just to live up to the “expectations of society”, rather than to follow my heart. As much as I like working with my colleagues, and as much as I appreciate my company boosting my career over and over again, I still feel as my life is being led, and I am not in control. A year…

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A Lovely Wee Walk

When I was little and I’d done something wrong, I would often blame someone else - like my brother.  And I would get a row, with my dad saying “and if your brother told you to jump into the loch, would you jump?” With the answer invariably being a miserable “no”.

But when Curly says she’s done something and that it was fun, I tend to think “Curly said that was good, I’m going to do that too”

The other week she said she had gone up the Grey Corries one evening and it was the best walk she’d done all year and was about 4 hours.  I could do with a bit of endurance longer than the maximum required 3hrs 15 mins of The Ben Nevis Race and this sounded like a nice way to do it.  Spook and Running Girl said they fancied it too.  She was coming off the night shift with another night shift to follow and it would be a bit of a diversion and fresh air.

I hadn’t bothered to look up the Walk Highlands report.......because Curly said....

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/greycorries.shtml

It’s a relatively short climb to a whole other world......

We walked from out of sight on the left, to out of sight on the right. It’s more than 10 miles all in and is expected to take between 9 and 10 hours.  We had our night shift girl to think of and did it in under 5.5hrs.  No time was allowed for me wimping out on the narrower bits and it’s a long descent and jog along the old puggy line back to the start.

Running Girl and Spook chatted non stop all the way while I hopped from wobbly leg to leg with RG’s plasters already applied to my tender heels. It was a relief to reach the puggy line.

Of course, Spook got all nostalgic about his boyhood exploring the puggy line and the movie they made in the Scouts that was based on their own version of The Bridge over The River Kwai......I wonder where that movie is now?

There was still just a little time in the bag for a quick dip in the river to ease tired muscles......

An ample sufficiency for me as usual......

But the full monty for my companions.

So the next time Curly tells me about a lovely wee 4 hour walk, I will interrogate her a little more even though I know I will probably still say yes.  However, I think I might need to lie down now until The Ben Race on the 3rd of September.

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HAPPY WINTER EVERYONE!!

Yep, today is the first day of the meteorological winter - Dec, Jan and Feb being the coldest three months of the year.  After what appears to have been the 3rd warmest autumn on record, will winter continue the trend of warmer-than-average months?  With the exception of August, every one of the last 12 months recorded above average temperatures. Curiously, though milder than average, last winter resulted in copious amounts of snowfall on the Scottish hills.  But it was difficult to get AT them owing to the incessant gales, blizzards and avalanche danger.  I only managed one decent deep snow walk all winter, shown in this pic from the Grey Corries at the end of February.  Fingers crossed there's plenty of those kinds of days this winter :)

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Blethering Ben - 38 - I've never seen so much snow!

Winter 2013/14 will be remembered for the endless storms that kept everyone off the hills for months, but it will also be remembered for the record breaking volumes of snow that were dumped on the hills as a result.  After months of waiting I finally got a good sunny day, so I rushed up to the Grey Corries to see just how much snow we had......