A short break in Poland reminded me what genuine winter looked like.
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Ben Aigan Woods was my ‘playground’ for years. Yet there were paths there that I had never walked. After Christmas I decided to explore one of them, supposedly running around the summit. Of course I could have checked whether I was right, using services like Google Earth – but that would kill the joy of exploration. I hit the forest…
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Not long after I’d completed the Speyside Way it was extended to the village of Kincraig south off Aviemore. That section is only 10.5km (6.5 miles) and I considered that too short a walk to make all necessary arrangements. Instead I decided to walk from Kincraig all the way to Grantown-on-Spey, in total 37km (23 miles) – quite ambitious considering…
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I made a mistake while switching my day off for this week, and effectively I produced two days-off but each with some duties to carry out in the morning. The first one I used to revisit one of my first Munros, Sgor Gaoith. The other one I also spent in the Cairngorms, but this time climbing a new hill, Meall…
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It’s a kind of irony of fate that the weather, my days off and my physical or mental state haven’t met for weeks thus stopping me from hill-walking; then I agreed to do some Pastoral service on my day off and suddenly the forecast was brilliant. The service was not to be long and was in the morning; I’d be…