Hill Walk

Hoping to visit Glasgow (and other bits) this summer as we haven’t been up since Covid struck.
I remember hitching a lift from some Dutch students and being surprised at their reaction when we dropped into Glencoe from Rannoch Moor - I think awestruck would cover it.

 

Thanks @shiney , totally agree about the heat, because we have a Border Collie we tend to walk early and late if it's going to be hot. It also has the advantage of missing the crowds, I do enjoy meeting people on the hills but we stay away from the honeypot areas at peak times.
I can remember a few years ago going up Scafell and having the walk to ourselves, from the summit looking across to Scafell Pike it looked like Piccadilly Circus.

 

That's where the prison is isn't it @shiney ? Papillon/Henri Charriere?
I've not been overseas that often, but you've clearly enjoyed all your travels to all sorts of places

Hope you enjoy returning to 'the motherland' @steephill
There's a right stooshie going on about this proposed Flamingo Land development at the Balloch end of L. Lomond. Tourism is necessary, but this whole thing sounds ludicrous. The infrastructure won't be appropriate. People in the area are rightly furious about it.
The run along to Glencoe from Rannoch Moor is certainly striking- especially in winter.

 

Another outing last Friday, 10th May, to make the most of the weather. Very hot again, and only a good breeze now and again, and at the summit.
One of my favourite hills - Beinn an Lochain, just next door to Ben Donich from the previous walk, and seen in some of the pix.

The locals are always friendly



Bluebells looking good now


A view down Loch Restil


First sight of the main summit area

Loch Restil, with the Rest and be Thankful car park further along the road


I moved further along the little spur on the right, as I realised I hadn't got the entire lochan in the pic. That's when the battery died on the new camera - d'oh!
An hour and a half later, there was enough juice to get a summit pic. A hazy day


I got another of the loch later on, which I've put on the May Photo comp. thread, and there was just enough oomph left for a view back to the summit area half an hour later too


I met a group of people on the way down. This tiny row of dots, circled, is them approaching the summit. There was another chap making his way along the ridge, just out of shot in the previous pic.


I liked this rock too


Camera now fully charged and ready for it's next outing

 

Always lovely to see your hill walking pictures.

 

Thanks @Punkdoc. It's not a big day [about 4 hours or so] as you don't have a long walk in, and always enjoyable.
Met a nice chap over from Fife, and we had a very good chat for twenty minutes or so. We put the world to rights - as you do!

 

I've just found this thread - lovely, thanks @fairygirl ! I've just returned from a week on Lismore [island just off Oban, for anyone who doesn't know it], travelling by train from Glasgow. It's a beautiful route which gives great views of mountains I'm too creaky to climb any more...

 

Always one of my great joys when hill walking, @fairygirl, you are alone in vast empty spaces, you bump into a fellow hill walker and chat for a few minutes, as if you have known each other all your lives.

 

You have a house on Lismore, don't you, @Liriodendron ?

 

Lovely photos @fairygirl

 

Well remembered, @Punkdoc . Yes, our family has owned a little cottage on Lismore for 34 years... it now belongs to our son, but I go there whenever I can. The travelling is a bit more complicated now we live in Ireland, involving a lot of (free) travel on trains in Ireland, and sometimes nights in a couple of hostels en route, but it's worth it... I've learnt a lot of DIY skills over the years, and spent some time during this last visit fitting a new door lock, as well as clearing large areas of brambles to uncover the septic tank, so it can be emptied.

Still time to enjoy the view, though. This was taken on the evening I arrived, from the garden.

Brambles, later removed, in foreground!
Morvern peninsula in the background. I think that's Beinn Mheadhoin, but I could be wrong... we tried to climb it many years ago, but there's no recognisable path and too much bog.

 

Lovely picture, helping me get excited, as we will be heading north in a few weeks.

 

I've only just seen your post @Liriodendron - sorry. I'm not sure what hill that is in your pic, but the only B. Mheadhoin I know is one of the Munros in the Cairngorms.
Got out on Tuesday, to make the most of the weather before it returned to the usual state yesterday. Another favourite - The Brack. A steep little hill, at just shy of 2,600 feet altitude, with no real respite from the incline, but the view when you reach the lochan at around 2,000 feet is always one of my favourites, and makes the effort worthwhile.
First view of the northern side of the hill as you come out of the little bit of forestry. Cuckoos were calling somewhere, but quite far off

The path runs alongside the burn, so always plenty of photo opportunities when you cross, as well as being useful for a paddle or filling a water bottle on the way back!


The rowans were looking good - Beinn an Lochain in the distance


I took these on the way back down, but this is the view when you reach the shoulder


The little lochan from the other end- with Ben Lomond in the background


View across to some of the Arrochar hills- The Cobbler and Beinn Narnain


Beinn Narnain's Spearhead Ridge, with Ben More and Stob Binnein in the distance behind it


The other Arrochar Munro, Beinn Ime, with the Corbett Beinn Luibean on the left - and the Queen of the Hills, Bein Lui in the middle distance


It was even clear enough to see Ben Nevis, and it's arete, although it's too far for the camera to pick it up clearly


View across to Cnoc Choinnich which has been upgraded to Corbett status, and can be done along with The Brack. I'll get round to that some day
The huge boulders are like sentinels standing guard.





Some little rowans on all the crags, where they manage to survive everything that the weather flings at them, all year round. There were loads of young trees, but they don't often get to a great height - for obvious reasons.


A lovely day - with a good breeze, and best of all - had the hill all to myself...apart from the sheep.

 

Fab, pictures, as always.
If I gave you a list of my favourite hills, perhaps you could do a photo montage from all of them.