Hi Lionel

Glad you had a great holiday! Looking forward to seeing your pictures and hearing which hills you were climbing. That's a good number of hills in a few days! Great that your injuries are all healed now.

Cheers for now
Sheila

On behalf of a friend *cough* I was wondering if anyone here has done Stuc a Chroin near Callander and if so how long it took and how difficult was it?

thanks in advance!

Thanks Lionel, the pleasure was all ours, you and your friends were a great bunch of people to meet...at least you can now say you were in the famous Park Bar in Glasgow

Hi Mady1,

Yes indeed !!! We were in the famous PARK BAR in Glasgow, which was a great time, enjoying Scottish beers, cider and a great atmosphere with you and your friend. I am glad you took me to this mythic Glaswegian place. Thanks again !!!

Soon I will post a list of all the Munros my friends and I climbed and also our best pictures.

To all hillwalking Riggies, thank you very much for your kind messages. I hope to be back soon on the MB more often when my broadband line is repaired.

Greetings from the sunny Alps of France,

Lionel

Crunchie

Haven't done it myself as yet - heard there is a bit of a scramble to the top and will need a Sheila grading on the old wooseometer before I try! A good link is below.

http://www.munromagic.com/MountainInfo.cfm?Mountain=182


Lionel

Looking forward to seeing your photos! Hope the broadband is fixed soon.

Jacqui

Right so does my er friend need any special equipment for the scramble then? I'm unsure *ahem* if they have anything available.

Also see the route time given on that link, is that the time it takes to get to the top and back I take it (I *removed* hope so)?

The time quoted is a guide to the time it should take to do the entire walk (car - hill - back to car). Beer time in pub at bottom not included!

As for scrambling - scrambles are graded depending on how difficult they are. The easiest meaning you will need to use your hands a little bit. Good sturdy boots to protect your ankles are a definate. How are you with heights/exposure? I'm rubbish - in tears on a Grade 1 scramble... but slowly getting better.

One of the more experienced walkers on here will have better info for you.

Interesting challange for you Munro baggers - this guy has just celebrated his 50 -year anniversary of climbing all the Munros by climbing the last one again:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/people.cfm?id=1354432006

Walking in the clouds for Munro-bagging pensioners
DAVE HEWITT

IN YEARS to come it will be relatively commonplace for a hillwalker to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their round of the Munros - the full set of Scottish 3,000ft hills based on the list produced by Hugh Munro in 1891 and periodically amended ever since. Life expectancy is lengthening, walkers are completing the Munros younger than ever and those with a round on their CV are increasing at the rate of 200 per year.

It wasn't ever thus. Fifty years ago, total Munroists had only just sneaked past 30, and, with most of those not having finished until middle-age, few lived to see the silver anniversary of their round, never mind the ruby one.

Indeed, until last summer, only two people were known to have reached the 50-year landmark: the Reverend Archibald Eneas Robertson (completed 1901, died 1958 aged 87), and Alastair Cram (completed 1938, died 1994 aged 84). In the past year, however, two further names have been added and in both instances not only has the person lived 50 years after completion, he has reclimbed his final Munro exactly 50 years to the day since that notable event.

First came 80-year-old Miles Hutchinson. He completed his round on the most northerly Munro, Ben Hope, on 15 August 1955 and repeated the ascent on 15 August 2005.

Then, on 1 August 2006, Hutchinson's feat was repeated by 74-year-old John Mallinson of North Berwick. Mallinson, whose family moved from Bradford to Ayrshire when he was a child, became the then-youngest Munroist when he completed on Ben Chonzie in 1956. Whereas Hutchinson had been accompanied by his wife, Mallinson was alone..............

(read rest of artilcle via link above)

Interesting reading about your experiments with hill climbing/walking!! Great pictures, Lionel - thanks for sharing. Congratulations on your achievements on the munroes. Very impressed!

And to Anne Dorte - I went up Ben Newis myself. Wonderful views - but please tell me, where is this "Bruach" - just curious!!

Best wishes
Inger Lise

Had a fantastic weekend (Friday and Saturday) showing my favourite hills to a very very close friend of mine. Up Schiehallion on the Friday. Started off with low cloud and drizzle but on reaching the boulder field the mist cleared and we got some nice views. Summit view looking to Loch Rannoch (covered in cloud).



Saturday we then went up Glen Clova. Up the Kilbo path to Driesh, back to the col then to the summit of Mayar then north into Corrie Fee and down by the waterfall. Fantatsic weather all day. Should have packed the sun screen! Utterly brilliant day in the hills. Met a guy who was recovering from an horrific leg and foot injury sustained on Bruach. Two years on and he was attempting his first hill again.

Photo looking from Driesh to Mayar below.



More photos from the walk HERE

Lovely pics, Jaqui. Like the light and shade effects on the View down Corrie Fee ones - really velvety texture on the nearer hills.
And admirable amount fitted in. Impressed!

The legs are feeling it a bit today I admit! Glad you liked the photos!

Hi,

I didn't do anything as exciting as Jax and her friend, but I managed to finally get up to Ravello on the Amalfi coast and have stumbled across some other climbs at about 1350m that I'm going to do before November.

Pictures will follow!

C

Went up the Ochil Hills yesterday. I haven't done them before so that was a good experience, especially when the weather improved!

I'm doing Ben Narnain next Sunday, which will be another Arrochar Alp bagged

Where abouts did you leave from scotgirl? I went with a friend to check out some of the paths a couple of weeks ago. We found the path up to Ben Cleugh and followed it up until we got out of the forest. It was a really lovely walk with the path running right alongside the river as it gushed down the hill (this was from Tillicoultry). Should be going back on Wednesday, weather permitting, to do the walk and really looking forward to it. At 2,363 feet this should be a fair bit easier than the disaster that was Ben Ledi in June!