After a few weeks-long break I managed to go to the hills again. The plan was very ambitious and, as it turned out, too ambitious. Even plan B had to be changed. A pretty steep climbing of the northern slope of Beinn Iutharn Mhor and then a descend through rough terrain in burning heat drained my strength. When I saw in…
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I woke up at 2:30am and left home at 3am; two hours and 80 miles later I started climbing up the steep slopes of Creag Leachan, the first of six Munros I’d planned for the day. The sun was slowly appearing from behind the hills, the sky was spotlessly clear; only low temperature (-2 Celsius) and cold wind on the…
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After completing the Munros in the Cairngorms the time has come to turn into other hills. When I was driving down to Braemar my attention was drawn by a southern range well seen from the last part of the B976 between Gairnshiel Lodge and the A93. I’d also noticed that range from the top of Mount Keen. Attracted by its…
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That was an attempt of bagging my last two Munros in the Cairngorms. I have to admit the route was not particularly impressive, especially after the climbing onto the ridges. Each summit is a vast bare plateau, although Ben Avon is topped with a distinctive rock. The route was mainly a very long walk… [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=19OMlwoWPBzQzdf3__ywykdUHRDE&w=100%&h=600]
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This route was the second last in the Cairngorms. In the perfect weather I made it within 12 hours (as I’d planned). I left The Devil’s Point aside on 1 September because of the lack of time, so this time I’d included it in my route. This meant crossing a pathless slope of Cairn Toul and climbing similarly pathless slope…