Munros
3:43 pm on the 20th of April, 2004I’ve not been away walking since Christmas time (and I’ve just realised I didn’t make any mention of it here, Ben Vorlich if you’re interested, I didn’t get any good photos) and I’d like to get away again this term if I can. So I set about looking for a decent website that’ll tell me what hills I can get to by train from Glasgow but I couldn’t really find one, I couldn’t really find any websites that were actually any good. So, your task, should ou choose to accept it, is to tell me some hills I can get to (perhaps with an overnight camp) or the url to a good website that will tell me.
Or maybe an an invitation to the first blogmeet to be held above 3000 feet along with a lift there.
Or maybe I should go away and build a decent website myself, with the info you’re going to give me.
Waddya say?
April 21st, 2004 at 9:12 am on the 21st of April, 2004
It’s a shame you don’t say train, then bike. That would make it easier.
It’s maybe easiest to look at a map of Scotland’s hills (ie the munro chart) then superimpose a SctRail map of stations. That’s as a starting point.
Bridge of Orchy has a station, and has several hills around it. Also, there’s Corrour station, (and the next one on the line going north). There’s a batch of hils around there. When I did the four to he east of there, we drove up, parked about 2 miles south of the northern station, walked the 4 hills heading south to finishat Corrour station, then jumped on the train north (about 10 miles?) to the northern station and walked ablck to the cars. Thsi is quite a common way of doing it.
Course, the problem is, train times don’t always help you out. We made our (last train) with 30 mins to spare.
April 21st, 2004 at 10:27 am on the 21st of April, 2004
I expect Stuart would have rathered you’d offered him a lift.
Next time I go up a munro, I promise I will give you a ring first. Just don’t hold your breath.
April 21st, 2004 at 1:45 pm on the 21st of April, 2004
I suspect he would too. And next time I go away I will. But again, don’t hold your breath. Planning on climbing rather than walking over the summer.
Quick summary of definite upcoming plans
21-23 May - meet dad in cairngorms
12th june - fly to Caribbean.
By which time the summer term will be over and pie will (maybe) be back in sunny Dunny.
In the meantime, I’ve also got a garden to clear and a fence to install. My mound of dead branches is about 1/3rd done.
Next time Stu wants to spend his summer providing unpaid labour, there’s plenty to do in the big bruv house!
April 29th, 2004 at 11:08 am on the 29th of April, 2004
What about Crianlarich? There’s a shed load there. Good hostel too. I think Glen Finnan should be possible too. Then there’s Rannoch Station, or take City Link to Glen Coe and bag Bidean etc. Good luck!
April 29th, 2004 at 12:10 pm on the 29th of April, 2004
Oddly enough, Glen Coe is where I’m heading this weekend. Going to do this. Weather depending, of course. Not too hard, but a 4-star classic. A grand Day Out. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s any spare room on our rope.
April 29th, 2004 at 8:21 pm on the 29th of April, 2004
‘fairly easy with some scrambley bits but if you slip it’s cancel the milk time’ that’s how that route was described by someone we met at the top when we walked it last Easter.
I hadn’t thought about gettin a bus up, that could be a good plan. One thing I had been looking at was a train up to Bridge of Orchy to do Beinn Achaladair and Beinn a’Chreachan.
April 30th, 2004 at 9:12 am on the 30th of April, 2004
yeah - if you don’t use gear. we’ll be doing it properly, placing gear, belays etc. It shouldn’t be difficult, but it’s good practice for harder stuff.
May 2nd, 2004 at 6:32 pm on the 2nd of May, 2004
That last post should now read ‘we did it properly’
And very good it was too. Bomber placements, solid belays, lovely rock, spectacular location…the person you spoke to didn’t know what they were talking about. Or were talking about something completely different - the scramblers route underneath Rannoch Wall, maybe?
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