Loonytoons Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Any ideas? Weird trig point? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in Denny Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 4 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: Any ideas? Weird trig point? This website might have your answer HERE (trigpointinguk.com), wot hill ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 14 minutes ago, Bob in Denny said: This website might have your answer HERE (trigpointinguk.com), wot hill ? Bad Liath (ish) above the top end of Loch Shin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in Denny Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 29 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: Bad Liath (ish) above the top end of Loch Shin Possibly this taken form this document... (PDF) HERE Top of document, same post as yours? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 4 minutes ago, Bob in Denny said: Possibly this taken form this document... (PDF) HERE Top of document, same post as yours? Top man. That looks about right and the hydro usage fits in with the Cassaly power station. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 11 hours ago, Loonytoons said: Bad Liath (ish) above the top end of Loch Shin That's an impressively obscure bit of the country - were you out for a remote stroll? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, Swello said: That's an impressively obscure bit of the country - were you out for a remote stroll? Fishing, which often involves a fair bit of hill walking in remote places. Edited July 4, 2023 by Loonytoons 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 22 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: Fishing, which often involves a fair bit of hill walking in remote places. I like that I meet hillwalking photographers, hillwalking fisherman and hillwalking bird watchers - where the getting there (not ticking off hills) is part of the fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 11 hours ago, bennett said: This is a difficult one. I know the bridge and have used it in the past and the path does go right past the houses - and so in the law, they have a right to restrict it. My normal instinct would be to want the bridge re-opened but I think the "right to privacy" part of the access law is important as it took away one of the landowners main objections when it was being passed originally - and without giving reasonable privacy in someone's actual back garden, I don't think the current law would work. On the other side, I think landowners are getting more savvy about how to restrict access and it's pretty clear that some are slowly winding things back where they can (see also Network Rail) because they know that councils are overstretched and rarely police/enforce access disputes properly. On the Glen Affric case - they could easily do what many estates have done even before the access laws came in by building and signposting a short access path that routes away from the houses and maintains privacy but the willingness has got to be there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 On 04/07/2023 at 16:56, Swello said: I like that I meet hillwalking photographers, hillwalking fisherman and hillwalking bird watchers - where the getting there (not ticking off hills) is part of the fun. The walk and ascent through Glen Taitnech up to Loch nan Eun is a cracking ramble and definitely part of the fun. Tough graft on the ascent but the burn that comes out of the loch is stunning, especially when the sun is out and the bedrock just shines. A couple of waterfalls too and the second one is a clamber up, then the loch is right there at eye level. I've done the walk round the other side and bagged Tullichen, not nearly as good a walk but the view looking west on a clear day is amazing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Found this on the way back from a loch. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Beinn Fionnalidh, Càrn Eighe and Mam Sodhail is probably a nice walk. I wouldn't know as didn't get views until the walk out. Couldn't be bothered with Sgùrr na Lapaich so hopefully it never goes back on the list 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-66347917 Don't get me wrong - If I was 80 I'd rather snuff it on the Cuillin than in my bed - but what a place for someone of that age to be. Don't know whether to be impressed or horrified TBH. The report isn't clear as the summit of Am Bastier, not the coire is the height that they mention. If he was on the traverse round to the summit of Am Bastier - a slip there would definitely be fatal, although the climb out of the coire itself to the ridge isn't exposed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Anyone on here done the Beinn A Ghlo hills at Blair Atholl? Weathers looking not bad for Saturday last I checked. Everything I’ve read stresses how long the walk back out from the 3rd summit is, is it as bad as those on Walkhighlands make it out to be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 It's about 7 miles and a chunk of that through bog, which given weather last wee while will be as boggy as it can be. You can go back over Bràigh Coire Chruinn Bhalgain and take the path from the next bealach down Allt Coire na Saobhaidh. Depends if you would rather do two miles of bogs or 200m of climbing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 6 minutes ago, Central Belt Caley said: Anyone on here done the Beinn A Ghlo hills at Blair Atholl? Weathers looking not bad for Saturday last I checked. Everything I’ve read stresses how long the walk back out from the 3rd summit is, is it as bad as those on Walkhighlands make it out to be? First, check that the access road is re-opened, I seem to remember it was completely closed for repair/resurfacing. I did that walk early on in my round in deep snow and the walk out was the only time I've ever had the dreaded Bonk. I just ran out of energy *completely* and ended up having to sit down on the track and it took some of those horrible dextrose tablets that my mate had to re-inflate me and allow me to make it back to the car so I've not got great memories of that part of it (and I've now got a 15 year old pack of dextrose in my first aid kit as a result) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 On 29/07/2023 at 11:40, Swello said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-66347917 Don't get me wrong - If I was 80 I'd rather snuff it on the Cuillin than in my bed - but what a place for someone of that age to be. Don't know whether to be impressed or horrified TBH. The report isn't clear as the summit of Am Bastier, not the coire is the height that they mention. If he was on the traverse round to the summit of Am Bastier - a slip there would definitely be fatal, although the climb out of the coire itself to the ridge isn't exposed. My own shit myself moment there was having downclimbed the bad step my guard was down whilst waiting for the rest of the party to come down and I took a backwards step whilst looking up and slid down about 5m of loose shite on the North side which could have turned into a tumble. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 57 minutes ago, Swello said: First, check that the access road is re-opened, I seem to remember it was completely closed for repair/resurfacing. I did that walk early on in my round in deep snow and the walk out was the only time I've ever had the dreaded Bonk. I just ran out of energy *completely* and ended up having to sit down on the track and it took some of those horrible dextrose tablets that my mate had to re-inflate me and allow me to make it back to the car so I've not got great memories of that part of it (and I've now got a 15 year old pack of dextrose in my first aid kit as a result) Cheers, just checked and it reopened back in May, appreciate the heads up! Closest I’ve been to that was coming through the bogs after Beinn A’Chroin, felt like I was walking through treacle and my mate had some of those tablets too and they got us back to the car eventually 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 On 01/08/2023 at 11:43, invergowrie arab said: It's about 7 miles and a chunk of that through bog, which given weather last wee while will be as boggy as it can be. You can go back over Bràigh Coire Chruinn Bhalgain and take the path from the next bealach down Allt Coire na Saobhaidh. Depends if you would rather do two miles of bogs or 200m of climbing. I totally missed this and only seen Swello’s post and wish I had seen this now, the bog was brutal but I had a podcast on and head down and powered through. Was dry the whole morning til I got to the summit of Càrn nan Gabhar, took the obligatory selfie at the summit and then stuck the jacket on and rained the whole way back to the car. Was 4 hours to do all the summits and 3 hours purely slogging back to the car. Think my boots will take a week to dry out 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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