Wow, those are quite some backpacking adventures.
I love the idea of it, the freedom, the romance, living in the wilds and all that.
But then I think of trying to set up a tent in the pouring rain and so forth.
Aye fitness. Mines improved a good wee bit, I've just gotta keep it going and try and build on it more. Giving up smoking might help!
Compared to where I was a few years ago, struggling to get up any sort of hill, repeatedly injuring my knees etc, well I'm chuffed to be getting up some big hills on a fairly regular basis, or should that be irregular considering the weather. I'm not minded to head out unless there's a good chance of seeing the view from the top of the hill.
But then there's those machines out there. When I was up Aonach Beag and Mhor, I met a fella who in his words had just popped over from The Grey Corries and was eyeing up Ben Nevis and headed off apparently to pop over to the Ben, then back down somewhere in Glen Nevis where he was camping. To me those two hills, the Aonachs represent a full days strenuous walking, never mind adding on another up to another 6 hills! Wasn't your good self I bumped into Nick, was it?
Also met Mollie, the first dog to have been recorded as having dome a round of the Corbetts, and of course her owner. She told me she'd been round the Munros 6 times! Not sure I'll ever get round once!
I love the idea of it, the freedom, the romance, living in the wilds and all that.
But then I think of trying to set up a tent in the pouring rain and so forth.
Aye fitness. Mines improved a good wee bit, I've just gotta keep it going and try and build on it more. Giving up smoking might help!
Compared to where I was a few years ago, struggling to get up any sort of hill, repeatedly injuring my knees etc, well I'm chuffed to be getting up some big hills on a fairly regular basis, or should that be irregular considering the weather. I'm not minded to head out unless there's a good chance of seeing the view from the top of the hill.
But then there's those machines out there. When I was up Aonach Beag and Mhor, I met a fella who in his words had just popped over from The Grey Corries and was eyeing up Ben Nevis and headed off apparently to pop over to the Ben, then back down somewhere in Glen Nevis where he was camping. To me those two hills, the Aonachs represent a full days strenuous walking, never mind adding on another up to another 6 hills! Wasn't your good self I bumped into Nick, was it?
Also met Mollie, the first dog to have been recorded as having dome a round of the Corbetts, and of course her owner. She told me she'd been round the Munros 6 times! Not sure I'll ever get round once!