After around ten years of patiently bagging Munros (predominantly in the Winter season), i finally had just Sgurr Nan Gillian and Ben More left, and i didn’t want to do Gillian in winter! So we went up at August Bank Holiday and gave ourselves a whole week (in case of bad weather) before we’d arranged » read more »
Ok, so it’s a little bit shy of being a 4000m peak but it was really good fun. We took the amazing Jungfrau train to the Jungfraujoch station. (Worth the trip just to see the incredible engineering feat of tunnelling a train through 2 mountains.) From there we roped up for the glacier crossing. First » read more »
This summer we decided to do the first half of the Swiss Alpine Passes Route which closely follows the Via Alpina route. The route can be squeezed into two weeks walking by rushing through it with public transport and so on, but it fits more naturally into a good 3 week trip. So we split » read more »
Backpacking in the Cairngorms. Sorry no photos this time as we didn’t take the Camera…
A Week Munro bagging in Torridon based at Caladh at Allagin Shuas Slioch. Slioch via the ridge from its NE top Liathach’s Western Munro. Standard assent from the roadside camp site. We descended by the western ridge to Ben Alligin car park to avoid big snow cornicing. Day trip to Skye to get the Inn. Pin. with » read more »
Author: Phil Newby