I remember getting ready to do Bidean nam Bian and it's nearby Munro, in Glencoe many years ago, and watching a wumman sitting outside her motorhome, complete with a midge hood on, and making sandwiches or similar. I was fascinated, because I just couldn't understand why she didn't do it inside the thing! I took a sneaky photo
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Quite possibly my favourite mountain @punkdoc Back when Noah was a lad we would persuade the headmaster that it was too good a day to waste cooped up in a classroom and hitch hike up to Arrochar for a go at the Cobbler. I spent the night of my 16th birthday on that mountain, sheltering ineffectively in an old concrete hut in a typical downpour. I think the hut was left over from the building of the Loch Sloy hydro scheme which my Dad helped to build. More info than anyone needs - http://www.arrocharheritage.com/LochSloyHydroElectricScheme.htm
Brilliant @steephill- I'll have a read of your link later. I'm going to have to correct you though - The Cobbler [Ben Arthur] isn't a mountain A lovely sunny day for your pic @punkdoc. Last time I did it was April 2015 One of the girls I worked with wanted to do a charity walk with two other girls. I suggested they did a small version of the Three Peaks by doing The Cobbler, Beinn Ime and Beinn Narnain, and gave them all the info and maps etc, and got them to do it by going via the path to the bealach between the three hills. None of them were hill walkers as such - but they had youth on their side, and they managed it on the second time they went. First time the weather was hideous and they [rightly] came back.
Great pix @coccinella. The way rock formations are created is a complex subject - I know nothing about it either, but I know that the summit of Everest was once on the bottom of the sea
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Very true @Fairygirl I was never a mountain climber, just a hill walker. There have been a few times where the boundaries got blurred though . We once failed to make the summit on the Cobbler in a whiteout and deep snow. I think we had gotten slightly lost and were climbing up one of the steep gullies just to the left of centre in your photo when we had an attack of common sense and gave up.
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Perhaps they wouldn't have had enough 'Avon ladies' to head up to Scotland during midge season to do some research either
I just remembered I'd kept this article some time ago. Enjoy
https://www.smidgeup.com/beasties/midges/
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I took a sneaky photo
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
A lovely sunny day for your pic @punkdoc. Last time I did it was April 2015
One of the girls I worked with wanted to do a charity walk with two other girls. I suggested they did a small version of the Three Peaks by doing The Cobbler, Beinn Ime and Beinn Narnain, and gave them all the info and maps etc, and got them to do it by going via the path to the bealach between the three hills. None of them were hill walkers as such - but they had youth on their side, and they managed it on the second time they went. First time the weather was hideous and they [rightly] came back.
Great pix @coccinella. The way rock formations are created is a complex subject - I know nothing about it either, but I know that the summit of Everest was once on the bottom of the sea
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...