Posts Categorized: Mountains & hills

Mull

Posted by & filed under Military/Aircraft, Mountains & hills, Travel, July 28 2008.

Lesley and I spent last weekend on the island of Mull, staying in Tobermory. On the Saturday I walked up Ben More (whilst Lesley went to the island of Iona), which is the highest summit on the island, and the only munro summit that you need to catch a ferry from the Scottish mainland to… Read more »

Summer snowfields in the Cairngorms

Posted by & filed under Mountains & hills, Science, July 17 2008.

Last weekend I went for a walk on the Cairn Gorm – Ben Macdui plateau, primarily to locate an air wreck site near the summit of Ben Macdui (see the previous blog posting ‘The highest air wreck site in the whole British Isles?‘) but also to see how large the summer snowfields on the plateau… Read more »

An Sgarsoch and Carn Ealar

Posted by & filed under Mountains & hills, June 23 2008.

Last weekend I walked and cycled to the two summits of An Sgarsoch and Carn Ealar, in the southern Cairngorms, with Norma (who hadn’t used her bike for getting to remote summits before).

Puig Carlit, eastern Pyrenees

Posted by & filed under Mountains & hills, Travel, June 12 2008.

While on holiday in the South of France, I drove to the Pyrenees to try and climb the summit of Puig Carlit. At 2921m, Puig Carlit is not one of the major summits of the Pyrenees mountain chain (the highest is Pico d’Aneto at 3404m) but it is the highest in this particular region.

South of France

Posted by & filed under Military/Aircraft, Mountains & hills, Travel, June 9 2008.

Lesley and I have just returned from a week’s holiday in the South of France, to Roussillon (the Catalan region of France). We flew from Edinburgh to Toulouse with Jet2, who are a budget airline but the flight was fine.

Letterewe – a remote wilderness?

Posted by & filed under Mountains & hills, May 28 2008.

Last week I went on a 2-day expedition into Letterewe (also known as Fisherfield). This area of Wester Ross in north-west Scotland is one of the most wild and remote areas of the Highlands and it contains 6 munro summits. These munro summits are considered to be amongst the most remote and inaccessible of any…. Read more »

Ben Wyvis

Posted by & filed under Mountains & hills, May 27 2008.

Two weeks ago I walked up Ben Wyvis near Inverness with Lee, an old friend from school. We had a fantastic warm day for it, with perfectly blue skies. The top of Ben Wyvis is a long, broad and grassy ridge that makes for great walking. With the clear air we had that day it… Read more »