cairngorms high camping

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

At long last our mutual diaries were clear and I met up with my oldest and bestest friend Allan, aka The Penguin, at the wee car park on the ski road and headed off into the wilds for a high camp on Braeriach. So it was down to the river, swollen with the interminable summer rain this year and up past Lapland, the reindeer station and along the excellent path to the Chalamain Gap. It’s an interesting name is Chalamain. Calman is the Gaelic for dove but it’s pronounced with the svarahbakti vowel, which means it sounds like calaman and I suspect it’s just been named after the peak directly above it, Creag a’Chalamain or rock of the dove, as Chalamain isn’t a real word on its own, meaning “of the dove”. So there must have been a colony of rock doves here at some point and rocky it certainly is.

the moon joins venus and jupiter

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Just got back in time to get a couple of shots of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter over Sleat:

Moon on eBothy Blog

cairngorms high camping

the moon joins venus and jupiter