Saturday 1st August 2020 Brechin Today we were off to undertake a short and easy enough Munro – Mount Keen. Mount Keen is a 939 m (3,081 feet) high mountain and the most easterly Munro. We set off in beautiful conditions (no winds for a change) from the standard ‘tourist route’ of Invermark car park…

Friday 24th & Saturday 25th July 2020.      Braemar On finishing work again we had that ‘Friday Feeling’…and we were off. We were heading back up Braemar way to undertake an epic long hike to tick off another two Munro’s this weekend which are more remote and require a massive long walk to even just…

Friday 17th & Saturday 18th July 2020 Lochnagar This weekend we were off again.  We set off late after work, drove for approximately 2 hours before reaching Lochnagar: ‘a little hill of laughter or noise’.  Lochnagar is located about 5 miles south of the River Dee near Balmoral. Setting off from the car park at…

Sat 11th & Sun 12th July 2020 Glenshee In the words of our very own William Wallace…“FREEDOM”…albeit in a very different context but freedom all the same. Ours came in the form of a wild camping weekend, whereby we set up camp on top of a munro, a room with a real view, just perfect…

Staying local in lock-down has given me a brand new appreciation for my local area.  Although I genuinely do and have done I guess since childhood explored my local area regularly and I’d like to say I feel I know it well, I have in lock-down been going that little bit further afield, by foot,…

Friday 1st May 2020 “And the people stayed home, and read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still…” What if the universe is trying to slow us down? To say “stay home, let the earth breathe a little, let it…

Saturday 21st March 2020 Drumochter Pass It was 3 weeks to the day that we first attempted to summit Gael Charn. On that occasion, we were blown straight off the mountain in a complete white out just before reaching the summit. At the time I was hugely disappointed, if I start something I like to…

Saturday 29th February 2020 Today we were off to undertake some winter walking. We were heading to hike the Munro Geal Charn situated in the Drumochter Pass area. Geal Charn is a bit of a lump of a Munro in the heart of the Ben Alder range and its said to have superb views towards…

Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd February 2020 Inverness Friday This weekend was taking us up North. We had received a gift for Christmas of a weekend stay in Inverness (thank you, you know who you are) so it was the perfect opportunity to try and get a more distant Munro undertaken in the Highlands. However…

Sunday 16th February 2020 South Queensferry With ‘Storm Dennis’ paying us a ‘bit of a visit’ this weekend we decided to keep it low and local with our dog walking routes….and planned accordingly! We were off to South Queensferry. There is a 4.5 mile shore walk from South Queensferry to Cramond, which covers beaches and…