The apparently longest heatwave in Scotland since 1976 has made hill-walking a challenge in a different way than I’ve got used to. My last two routes, along the east and west banks of Loch Treig had been so exhausting due to direct sun and high temperatures that I decided to start this walk before the sunrise. It had meant waking-up at 1am and leaving…
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After climbing the three Munros on the east bank of Loch Treig it was logical to do the other side. Having known the weather would be hot I decided to start early to climb up as much as possible before the heatwave struck. It turned out to be a good idea: both tops I climbed before 11am. [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1-f7ntqxnyGagBUKMF9UhCJ5pSzk&w=100%&h=600]
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For some undisclosed reasons I’ve been recently stuck in the east Lochaber area; each time I was going to the hills the weather had been forecast pretty bad anywhere else, and pretty good there. Last Monday it was exactly the same story: I really had wanted to go to the Ullapool or Glen Cannich areas, but the forecast had made…
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Weather forecast for this Monday was really tricky. It was a bit of a gamble; generally speaking it paid off. The morning was quite breezy and drizzly as far as to the top of Beinn a’Chlachair, the first Munro of the day. Just after I’d finished with my sandwiches there – shivering in cold wind – the clouds cleared a…
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This Munro was the one I had previously left unclimbed; partially because it requires quite a long walk to the foot of the hill. Yesterday mixed weather forecast for Scotland somehow pushed me there, as other regions were expecting rain. The long walk turned out to be pretty pleasant, though still long. The entire route was rather straightforward, running along…