The guy from the Emirates in-flight safety video with a massive smile, absolutely buzzing off his nut about something.
Finally (after an “interesting” loop of emails & voicemails that threatened to become infinite), I’ve booked the Braemar Youth Hostel for tomorrow! #FridayNight🥳 #PlanB #MunroBagging #CorbettBagging (?) #12DaysOfFreedom
Managed to fit in one Corbett before the rain arrived for the 17th straight day (lining up perfectly with my Runrig account). #MeallNaFearna #CorbettBagging @walkhighlands.co.uk
Met Office: At midday there will be almost no showers between Glasgow and the Cairngorms, with a lot of blue sky. Showers will drift in over the afternoon, but not as many as originally thought.
There’s a random window for an impromptu hillwalk this afternoon, but the forecast was Bad so I was going to have to downgrade it to e.g. a bit of the West Highland Way.
Woke up this morning and there’s been a major upgrade. This is back on… #CorbettBagging
Schiehallion from the summit of Meall Tairneachan.
A lochan halfway up Ben Vrackie.
Me on the summit of Meall Tairneachan, wi the Schiehallion on the background.
Ben Vrackie finally escaping the morning cloud (yes, we had actual cloud up here. Yesterday it chicken it down for ages near Schiehallion and I only just missed it).
3rd and 4th hillwalks over the last two days, in baking heat. I still remember winter though, so no complaints here. @walkhighlands.co.uk #BenVrackie #MeallTairneachan #CorbettBagging
Ben Vrackie. A loch in the foreground with a mountain in the background. Just a wee dusting of snow.
Good weather graced the Scottish hills today- so i thought id sneak in a hill on my drive North. Cold but dry! #corbettbagging
Caisteal Abhail from Cir Mhor on Arran.
The reciprocal view back to Cir Mhor, with Goatfell in the background.
Ok what the hell is going on here, seriously get me down what is this.
Update: I alive. But soaked and unhappy, and now I need to get down too.
Sep 2011: suddenly met A Significant Other, but was already planning a week-long Highlands tour.
After another day #CorbettBagging in Arran, I ended up at Corrour following the obscene advice of a guidebook and accidentally rock-climbing up Creag Ghuanach. 😵💫
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Looking down to Glen Almond from an eventful descent of Auchnafree Hill.
Glen Almond and Auchnafree Farm.
Me at the right cairn (finally!) with the wrong cairn behind. Was was I thinking?!? Mist does strange things to humans.
The River Almond entering the Sma Glen.
In 2015, in mist and without GPS. I went to the wrong cairn on #AuchnafreeHill, but I always keep receipts. Today, it was finally time to finish the nine-year hillwalk. #BeinnNaGainimh #CorbettBagging #FionaBagging @walkhighlands.co.uk
A morning inversion over Aberdeenshire from the slopes of Morven.
Glenbuchat Castle in Strathdon.
Me on the sunny summit of Morven, behind a trig point, with a huge cairn in the background.
A helicopter. Hope it wasn’t mountain rescue and, if it was, hope they were ok!
Well that was…eventful? (N.B. the helicopter’s not for me.) #Morven #LadyleaHill #CorbettBagging #MarilynBagging @walkhighlands.co.uk
6:15am alarm for my first site visit in three years baybee. #FridayNight🥳 #CorbettBagging
A big river at the start of the walk at Hearthstane, in the Scottish Borders.
My friend looking at one of the many weird contraptions near the summit of Broad Law.
Me at the summit trig point (finally!) of Broad Law. We got round three of the four Donalds, so the other one can wait for less awful weather.
A glen (or do you just call them valleys in the Borders?) on the way up Hunt Law, before heading over to Cramalt Craig.
Munros cancelled thanks to the weather warning, so we finally climbed the highest hill in the Borders. Broad Law and Order restored. #BroadLaw #CorbettBagging #DonaldBagging #FridayNight🥳 @walkhighlands.co.uk
Looking from halfway up Shalloch on Minnoch to Loch Bradan.
A semi-awkward stream crossing right at the start.
Me at the trig point of Shalloch on Minnoch. The real summit is 7m higher and a few hundred metres away, but for some reason I stopped here with my Grandad in 20023, before finally rectifying things in 2018.
Alisa Craig and Hadyard Hill Wind Farm, appearing out of the haze.
Didn’t make it to Millfore (because of traffic CHAOS in Patna), so I went back to this hill for my uncle’s 70th birthday (and his first time up here). #ShallochOnMinnoch #CorbettBagging
Sgiath Chùil with a bridge (for once) aiding the river crossing.
A really weird and freaky rock formation on the way down from Meall Glas (I went a daft way tbf).
Me on the summit of Beinn nan Imirean.
A frog! Again!
Two Munros, a Corbett, almost no paths, lots of steep ground, some sunshine and yet another frog. #SgiathChùil #MeallGlas #BeinnNanImirean #MunroBagging #CorbettBagging
A rock face on the way up Beinn nan Oighreag.
A stream crossing (successful this time!)
Me on the summit of Meall Ghaordaidh.
Loch Lyon (I think) in the distance.
WOOOOOAH!!! We’re 1/4 of the way there! 🎸
(My first Munro since my “incident” in October, a bonus Corbett and I’ve finally crossed the ‘25% Munros’ line. Next stop: 26%!) #MunroBagging #MeallGhaordaidh #CorbettBagging
Lochcraig Head and Loch Skeen.
Someone *reeeeeeally* wanted to walk through the snow (not me).
8 (EIGHT) Donalds in a day. They’re not Munros tbf.
Talla Reservoir.
It’s been 84 years (6.5 months). But finally Spring has sprung, so it’s time to exorcise the demons of my “interesting” last hillwalk, and climb eight Donalds! #FridayNight🥳 #OneTeamInTalla #WhiteCoomb #CorbettBagging #DonaldBagging
