[click on any picture to get an enlarged view] Icy cold January winds on the slopes of the Brecons RMC is Reading Mountaineering Club. With a monthly program of trips for walkers, climbers, scramblers, and bikers there are members from far and wide. Last Friday a select group joined the queues on the M4 towards […]
The Beacons Beckon – RMC goes to Wales Read More »
The Protestant route would go East to West, saving the best to last. But we follow a more Catholic tradition – probably for practical reasons. Getting folk together at the end of a crossing is easy on the East coast, and almost impossible on the West without extending everyone’s journey. So the first bit is
TGO – the first bit is the greatest! Read More »
2015 route has now been approved. Some good advice from my vetter to be digested and taken on board!
TGOC 2015: Glenelg to Inverbervie Read More »
In ancient times there were 4 native deer in the UK – elk and reindeer which disappeared around 10,000 years ago, and red deer and roe deer which remain. Because of over-hunting in earlier centuries (1300-1800) there have been several programs to reintroduce both red deer and roe deer. [In addition we now have 4
Reindeer on the Glomma Read More »
A September trip to Norway found us revisiting the area reported on here. We had been without snow before, but on previous occasions there were children to manage; this was the first time we could focus on grown-up pursuits like walking, picking berries, and chopping trees. troll Black Death Norefjell lies 3 hours drive
The TGO Challenge The TGO Challenge takes place in May and it is now August, and for some unexplainable reason I still have not completed the write-up. Probably I should learn from Martin Banfield who I found shut up in his tent in the middle of Fetteresso forest writing his blog. Last time, in 2012,
TGOC 2014: The TGO Challenge putting it all together Read More »
I left Tony and Jackie tucked up in their tent and worked my way across to the track up White Hill on the other side of the valley. Birse Castle and Ballochan from White Hill From now on the mountains are behind me. I move eastwards trying to keep to the relatively high ground of the hills
TGOC 2014 #8: Ballochan, Glen Dye, Fetteresso Forest to Dunnottar Castle & Stonehaven Read More »
Someone calls Ballater their ‘secret weapon’ for the TGO. I’m not sure why, but it does seem counter-intuitive to head this way when wilder scenery of Lochnagar beckons to the south east. It is a pleasant town with a range of restaurants and other facilities and a campsite right by the centre. The route from Braemar is straight
TGOC 2014 #7: Braemar / Ballater to Ballochan Read More »
The small clearing by Drakes Bothy is a good camp spot and a nice place to start the day. I woke with blue skies which soon turned to grey – the tops, initially clear, became cloaked in cloud. Tops soon became cloaked in cloud On the path soon after 7am, I guessed I was around
Errogie dwelling The Monaliadth is a different style of mountain area. The rounded hills and extensive high moorland give it a remote feel but without the dramatic landscape of the steeper and more rocky West Highlands or Cairngorm. an entrance to the Monadliadth at Drumnaglas The area is dissected by landrover tracks, which provide the
TGOC 2014 #5: The Monaliadth from Errogie to Feshie Read More »