Hello Anniebach !!!

Thank you for your post. As I am very curious about the Scottish hills, I wanted to get an idea about the hill you climbed... so I looked for some photos on the internet.

I hope you get another chance to walk the ridge in better weather !!!
The ridge looks really beautiful !

Question to Tiz and to you : what does the Clachaig ridge look like ? I'd like to get an idea !

I have just found another very big picture (a panoramic view) of Na Gruagaichean and Am Bodach. Very picturesque scenery !!! I hope to walk there one day.

http://www.thewalkzone.co.uk/scotlnd/glen25/pan-1.htm

Clachaig ridge....knife point, very narrow...slate... 2 'chimneys' to scale...

I'm sure this is the correct link.... (sorry for diving in Tiz & Annie)

clachaig ridge

(sorry Lionel, couldn't resist!!! )

Hello Jacqui !!!

Maybe this Inn took the name of a famous Glencoe ridge ?

Thank you Jacqui !!!

Greetings from France

Lionel

Lionel the Mamores are fantastic it was a cracking mountain day with a battle all day with the weather but well worth it. I just wish we had gone on but we started late as the previous day my wife had hurt her back slipping on sodden wooden steps at Morar (hehe the sight of me running into the sea nude I think) and we wernt sure if she would be well enough for me to go.

It was another 500 meters of ascent and but a few clicks but the weather and light was going fast and also the fear of being late home to her indoors was enough to persuade me ( okay I really wanted to sample some fantastic ales at the Clachaig Inn )

Wee Annie was magic never once complained at the conditions and we rough tracked most of it on navigation. Made of stern stuff that one though she didnt offer to give me a piggy back once.

Sob the sight of stob a choire a chairn though was egging me on.

I hope one day we can get a riggie hill meet sorted

errrrrrm I may be going to the gym regularly lad but don't think I will ever be able to give you a piggy back

Annie and Tiz,

It's a pity you didn't get the weather we enjoy in the Alps at the moment : a long Indian summer, we are getting now a second week of sunshine and clear blue skies. That would be perfect to walk in the Mamores !!!

Tomorrow I'll be off on the hills again. The forecast is excellent : sunshine and about 20 /22 ° C.

Sorry !!! I forgot to ask what a "piggy back" is ...

Hi Lionel .....a piggy back is when you carry someone on your back ....and there is no way I could carry Tiz hehehehe

Thanks for the photo of Na Gruagaichean....nice to see what it looks like .....if we'd left the walk until Thursday we most probably would've had a clear day....but that's the luck of the draw, we will just have to go back up there....any excuse

Just back from an epic up the Gaick Pass, near to Drumochter, bagging the two Corbetts An Dun and Maol Creag an Loch in some of the foulest weather I've been out in in a long while.
A 25km round trip from Dalnacardoch lodge on the A9, in buffeting winds and driving rain - total character building stuff !
I even had a navigation error coming off Maol Creag an Loch to add to the spice of the day - mainly caused by the wind deciding to shift to a south easterly !! Thank the Lord for the GPS !!
Had a good laugh at my mate though who had to wade the northern outflow of Loch an t-Selich barefooted ! Thank the Lord for Yetis !!

I do have about 5 pictures but they're not worth posting as its pea-soup from start to finish !

Haven't been on the hills since July but still doing regular walks - it works wonders for the stress. Today was a ten mile walk around Cannock Chase near my home. Not exactly the isolation of Applecross but still fairly quiet.

Gps...............................oh no



I carry one in case loool

Another short walk in the Cotswolds on Cleeve Hill on Saturday, Lionel! This time I took a couple of photos for you.




They show the Postlip Valley and the Wash Pool, which is beside on old stone sheep wash. We went there especially to look for some birds, Ring Ouzels, ('Merle à plastron' in French) which have stopped off here for a few days to feed on berries on their migration south. We were lucky and had good views of up to 12 birds. It was mostly cloudy and windy but the sun did show for a short time.

I think I will have to start a new post if I am to talk about most of our walks as they are rather short and avoid hills where possible (my knees are wearing out, he's overweight and we're both unfit) so don't really belong with the mountaineers on this post!

Puffin are you in the Cotswolds
I love cleeve hill
have you done the whole of the cotswold way.

I have done it three times now

Hi Tiz
I live in Gloucester so am near to the edge of the Cotswolds - I can see a little bit of the hills near Painswick from my window, between the rooftops!

The whole of any Way?? See last line of post: unfit + dodgy knees + basically lazy = no chance!