Set out down to Lowther on Saturday to actually ski the hill in daylight – however when I got out of the van, as well as being bitterly cold, it was pretty obvious that the wind had blasted a lot of the snow away which had lain the week before – the few remaining patches, […]
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First ski tour of the year
Lowther 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 […]
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Happy New Year 2009
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 […]
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Old Blog New Adventures
Just discovered the old Walkabout Scotland blog – will use this one for updates in the future
Saturday 9th Sept saw us treating agroup of 10 Polish java programmers based in sunny Dunfirmline to the delights of mountain biking around the Pentlands. The weather was still awesome – with a definite Summer feel Paivi was guiding with Jon, Iza and Annett tagging along to help out. We did the usual route: up […]
37 people (Architects, civil engineers and various staff from an Edinburgh-based design and build consultancy) Morning session choices of mad mountain biking with Paivi and Martin in the forest above the village, more sedate biking over to the Glen Ogle viaduct and back with Jon, blasting up the hill overlooking Killin with Euan or gentle […]