An open invitation to the rhb list - I hope to be climbing Ben Vrackie on the evening of Friday 11th August. This will be RHB#329 for the year, and will also...
Congrats! Are you ahead of schedule - I was expecting this announcement in September after our conversation at the Marhof meet. Afraid I can't make it - I will...
Yes, all being well I should reach the current 405 target by mid-September (I have my last bagging holiday planned for mid-Wales in the first full week of...
Antony Whitehead wrote ... will try and visit with a birders group next year. Any gen on a possible if non landing trip to Sula Sgeir for a chance of the...
... Let's hope the men of Lewis can tell their gugas from their albatross. According to yesterday's Guardian they are just about to head off to Sula Sgeir for...
... This is interesting, as I've never found Knoydart to be particularly rough going, or hills there to take any longer than elsewhere. Even the small hill...
I concur completely with Alan's rating of the Galloway hills as top rough spot contender. The Merrick is a carpet slipper job by the tourist path but the rest...
As one who has spent a fair bit of time in Galloway over the years and who has also recently made a high-summer raid on Knoydart (ie it's fresh in the memory),...
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... My experience of Knoydart is also that it's not as rough as its reputation. A lot depends though on what scale you are gauging roughness. I remember...
Forget about the St Kilda stacks – or even the sub-marilyn Mow Cop – a new "most difficult Marilyn" appears to have been found. Whilst perusing the latest...
I've inserted a tiny pic of my friend's Cessna which decided to play bumpy castles with the Ochils yesterday morning. I'm quite impressed that he not only...
... Thanks Ken I recall walking on the Carnedds early one morning in the mid 1970s. A light plane of this type had crashed on the summit ridge at ~900m about ...
... Yep, the ridge between Berwyn & Aran is pretty bad. Only areas completely unmanaged are really bad though: often you can link burnt areas and bits of path...
How about we also offer to take out a pressure washer and clean Stac Lee of all the guano so that the birds have a cleaner environment to live in (and we don't...
... For reasons I can't quite recall I've been up Cadair Berwyn three times in the last year, and I really don't understand why it has this terrible...
... Brae of ... contour ring ... a ... for ... Hi Martin, Sadly, there is nothing in my OS Landranger mapping (50k) to suggest this is anything other than a...
Hi folks - nonetheless, publishers inc the OS DO include deliberate errors as a monitor against unauthorised p/copying. If you are old enough to remember log...
... try walking from there SW across the Milltir Cerrig and over several 2000ers to the Arans and you'll see what we mean;-) One of the roughest rhbs that I...
Peter Robinson wrote Hands up all those who remember log tables. Score bonus points if you remember how to use them. Score double points if you actually...
Andrew Tibbetts wrote ... week ... Nice one Andrew. 2 more years and you should be in the Stac Lee queue ;-) I'm probably in the deep South for the weekend of...
... To be honest, I did intend going back to Pistyll Rhaeadr round by Post Gwyn and thought better of it soon after Moel Sych. But I think it's a shame if...
I believe it was discovered last year, by the guga hunters. It was reported again this spring as taking up residence. There had been sightings on and off...
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned Drygarn Fawr (31C). Peak is in middle of boggy tussocky ground and makes Watch Croft look like a stroll in the park. ...
... I dont think the OS needs deliberate mistakes.... Richard ng shows no internal contour structure, this can be interpreted as a sheer-sided column some 90m...
Lammermuirs? Dead easy! No probs... Real nasties so far encounterd. Dooish from the Poison Glen side ( Co. Donegal) Longay off Skye Lady Isle (Troon) ...
... Gorllwyn - Drygarn has often be quoted as a horror but was not too bad. There is a photo of Abergwesyn Common in Wild Walks which is just horrifying. ...
... Aye, I was just thinking that - I was up there last weekend - pretty rough stuff, not top league maybe, but bad enough. Mind you I started my walking...
... remember how to use them. Score double points if you actually understood them. ... Reminds me of an old mathematical joke that few would understand these ...
Which reminds me - I have 3 very good slide rules up in the roof. My own and those I inherited from my late father and brother. I can't bear to throw them...
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