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Climbing mountains or climbing the walls
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Been a very long time ( 2 years + I reckon) since Fraser and I got on a hill – of course the C19 issue stopped us all but Fraser and I did a lot of mountains together and it’s been faaar to long ! Grabbed some annual leave and we stuck August 12th in…
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… are lost – we all know this one but I found myself saying it in earnest for the first time at the weekend. We went for a “quick hit “ to Meikle Bin , a small 570m hill in the Campsie Fells , just north of Glasgow . Long story short .. wrong car…
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A quick trip away for a few days around the NW highlands after finally emerging from our lockdown cocoon
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but as an insulated layer for cold summit pushes and tops and for après its a great option
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the MSR Hubba Hubba NX (or Hubba NX2 as I’ve seen listed) is MSR’s light 2 man, 3 season tent and has been gaining a lot of popularity across social media so I bagged one to replace our aging but bomber TNF Tadpole 2 – lets see how it faired on a Scottish Autumn wild…
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We had first walked Ben Vrackie in the deep of winter back in 2013 when the small loch on its lower flank was frozen and the whole world was wrapped in deep snow
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En route to the final summit rise we spotted a mum a baby deer grazing in the dawn sunlight.
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But here’s the rub .. I had done almost zero gym time, little if any running , only a little local mountain biking (although I did do a 25 press ups for 25 days challenge) so… lets face it.. im out of shape! …
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While the Road Trip report dedicated to Arches contains much more , I had missed some photos and the afternoon hike so putting here for completeness 🙂 The following photos are taken on an afternoon hike up to overlook Delicate Arch from a distance, it was from here we decided…
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I don’t mind admitting I’d never heard of Bryce canyon until we got chatting to a very cool retired gentleman in a bar in Jackson Hole.(I am known to start talking to anyone who gets within 5 feet and in the US many folks are the same so we met many new friends along the…
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.. really feeling our epic journey was closing , sad but feeling very lucky to have experienced such an amazing trip and knowing there was still so much more of the world still to see.
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we picked up some new friends along the way and coached at least one of them right to the top when their friends passed on going any further with a “no frikkin way” !
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