Munros on eBothy Blog

reflectioneering

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Normally I write up a walk on the day or a day or two later but since doing this one, I’ve walked St. Cuthbert’s Way and like a fine wine, its memory has matured over the last few weeks. In fact there’s been a fair bit of maturing going on in my reading material. Sometimes, when a book is published, its true value isn’t apparent at the time.
‘Ach, I do that all the time’ is an oft heard ripost, especially from the ranks of walking and climbing clubs. Such was the general reception in my old mountaineering club when Mike Cawthorne’s “Hell of a Journey” came out in 1997. Climbing the 1000m peaks in winter? ‘ach, we do that all the time!’.

munros from the air

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

It’s not often you get to fly over the summit of your last Munro but that’s exactly what I did on Thursday last week. I had to fly from Glasgow to Stornoway on Flybe for a meeting and am I glad I took my camera! I was glued to the window the whole way. Our route took us across Inchmurrin just west of Conic Hill then over the top of Ben Lomond.

rounding the munros

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I was flabbergasted to learn that Beinn a’Chlaidheimh in the Fisherfield wilderness is due to lose its Munro status. As we all know, a Munro is 3000 feet, or 914.4m but Beinn a’Chlaidheimh is apparently 913.96m. just short of Munro height. It thus raises the interesting question of what happens in winter? The hill will undoubtedly return to the Munro club as up to a foot of snow settles on its summit, to melt in the spring when it becomes a Corbett. What a ridiculous state of affairs.