Lovely photos! Was it not the Queens jubilee and they lit beacons all over the country? Would have maybe been 60 years. What's the row of rectangular buildings (far) below the top of the hill?

Think thats what it wouldve been. The rectangular buildings are warehouses I think but I'm not sure.

Great pics Fiery

Hi Sheila,

Thank you very much for sharing your nice pictures. What a great unexpected chance to spend a day on the hills. Hope you get more chances like that.

Greetings from the Alps,

Lionel

Thanks for your nice pictures Fiery. Is Dumyat a hill near your place ? Where is it exaclty ?

Greetings from the Alps,

Lionel

On Sunday, my friends Dominique, Alain, Patty and I, we went ski-mountaineering in the mountain range of the Aravis near Annecy. The weather and snow conditions were really exceptional : bright blue skies, sunshine and a thick coat of powder snow. So far this winter, that was the best ski-mountaineering day we got !!

PICTURES ARE HERE !



Greetings from the sunny Alps,

Lionel

More pictures of my Sunday ski-tour here :

http://egiciel.googlepages.com/combedelagrandeforclaz

Great photos Alun....nice weather too, especially for that area

great pics Lionel.
it looks awesome there.
Yea Annie weather was great. no wind by Lyn y Fan Fawr realy calm a bit cold and windy on top of Fan Brycheiniog tho and sun came out on way back to car.
thats twice i have been over there now and it hasnt rained hehe i think i will go again lol

Oh well Ben Cleugh can laugh at us no more we finally (after two failed attempts) made it to the top today. Not that we could actually see anything when we got up there mind, the clouds were far too low. Other than the mist it was a great day for hillwalking as there was no wind at all. I was walking up the hill in my T shirt and put my fleece on when we had lunch at the top. It's a nice easy walk Cleugh but then it's not even a Corbett. Managed to get away without even having blisters but then I was given a great pair of boots for Xmas and i wore two pairs of socks (thanks Lionel)!

The nice thing about the Ben Cleugh walk though is that for the first half 25mins your walking through a forest beside a stream coming down from the moutains so it's a lovely way to start a walk! smile.gif It took us a wee while as we were trying to take photos (and failing) so it was 2.5 hours to get to the summit and another 2 hours for coming back down.

And now, having had a long soak in the bath, I am going to order myself a curry and watch Scotland get humped off Italy.



Mist everywhere but it cleared by the time we reached the bottom!




Rest of my piccies!

It's a pity you didn't enjoy a beautiful weather Crunchie ... thanks for sharing your pictures. Some of the pictures of the burn are really nice. Hope you are lucky with the weather on your next walk to Ben Cleugh.

Had a good walk today around ogden moor which is only 20mins up the road

It looks nice there Celty. We took advantage of this beautiful spring weather and went through to wander round the gardens at Brodie Castle. They have the biggest collection of daffodils anywhere. I was amazed at how many different daffies there are!! There was even an Invergordon one!! Looked a bit tough to me!!

Why, were you fancying a bite of it?

Just back from sunning myself for 4 days at Arrochar, climbing Corbetts. I've, at long last, got a digi camera and when I find out how to get them on here, I will! If anybody has the Corbett Almanac, the climb over The Brack and Ben Donich is stated as 2800 feet of ascent. To my dismay, on Staurday, I discovered it should have said 3800 feet. That Cameron Macneish needs his ** kicking! More later.