Walk About Scotland BlogLowther Hill is the highest hill in Dumfries and Galloway, but being just off the M74, 40 miles SOUTH of Glasgow it’s almost in Lanarkshire and the Borders but at 725meters high, it large enough to have snow on in the winter. So I escaped the office, tazzed down down the Biggar road in the […]
First winter skills course of 2009 – a dusting of snow on the tops on Friday but snowing on Saturday and a full on blizzard on the Sunday. Gary, of course, knows where all the good snow spots are on Ben Lawers since he lives at the foot of the hill – Killin is an […]
At Drummochter Pass, the high point after the long pull up the A9 from Blair Atholl is a good place for winter munro bagging becasue teh starting hight of 400m leaves half the job done in terms of altitude gained – the west side has Geal Charn, A Mharconnich and Ben Udlamain – which have […]
We saw out 2008 cooking Haggis, Neaps and Tatties for 44 people at a bunkhouse at Laggan in the Central Highlands – the first real walk of 2009 was 2 days later (allowing for the traditional hangover to dissipate) – Meall a Buachaille, overlooking Glenmore, Loch Morlich and the freezing Cairngorm plateau. The trees were […]