“A High and Lonely Place” by Jim Crumley

Book Review
“A High and Lonely Place” by Jim Crumley
No doubt about it, Jim Crumley has a fair turn of phrase, and this book, subtitled “Sanctuary and the Plight of the Cairngorms”, reads on occasion like a poem rather than the polemic that it is.
Crumley’s basic point is that the Cairgorms are too important to the [...]

Moidart Plan

My work is taking me north this Friday to Moidart, and I plan to take in a few hills, test out my tent, and generally have a wonderful time. Let’s hope the weather co-operates.
Just had the new tent pitched in the garden. Since it arrived last Tuesday this is the first chance I’ve had to [...]

My new tent

My new Hilleberg Akto 1-man tent arrive in the post today. Yippee! Reviews to follow.
This means that I don’t have to rely solely on my bivi bag any more

C#56: Corserine

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Total distance walked: 16.5km
Total ascent: 714m
Time: 1145 – 1700, Friday 13 June 2008
A pleasant enough little hill, I suppose. The tracks through the forest bore little resemblance to the map, though. On the way up it it seemed rather straight forward. On the way down it resulted in us fighting our way through a dense [...]

In the beginning there was the tally

Once upon a time I climbed mountains. Little ones, big ones, but never with very much enthusiasm. and certainly never regularly.
Then came the tally: 284. The Munros, just 284 mountains in Scotland over 914.4m in height. And so I began inching up the tally, much as I inched ever upwards to this or that elusive [...]