hillwalking

Glas tulaichean & Carn an righ                 It started off as a backpack shopping expedition Sheila was needing a new backpack for the approaching winter , picking a new backpack is not easy when you are looking for a pack for trekking /climbing winter and summer not a task specific pack and something long lasting if your paying a lot of money for a bag you would hope it would see out your climbing/trekking life span , so three different outdoor shops around Edinburgh were visited , various bags were tried on handled bashed around and discussed merits and pitfalls off each bag , while bob started texting can we make it into the hills in the morning ? yes we can ! new backpack for the hills the next day would have been nice but no decision could be reached from the options we seen , it was 7pm now we had dinner to organise and old backpacks to fill for our day tomorrow, mission backpack had to be c...

6/9/18 my last 3 of the mamores Munros Kinlochleven hills                 Bob picked me and Sheila up from my house at 06:00 and we were all good to go. we had been at a gig in the warehouse Falkirk the night before so had a few but not enough to make us sleep in or be ill , there was the usual good banter on the car on the way up , the only thing worth mentioning about the two hour drive up was a fallen deer that we had to swerve round after a sharp corner and sharp brake ( on the way home the deer’s head was pulp a headless bloody carcass now ) bob had never done any of these hills from this area before previously the Mamore lodge house had a car park you paid £2 for and started your walk from there , this made me in charge of showing bob were the car park was and the initial route up !  The walk begins from the car park adjacent to St Paul's Church in Kinlochleven; it is signed 'Grey Ma...