Broken Mountain

Monday, January 26, 2009

New Blog - Old Posts

My new years resolution this year was to walk more. There is, of course, an ulterior motive: a trip to Ullapool in May, and the prospect of rather more walking towards the end of the year.

So the goal is this: to get back up to a good enough level of fitness to walk up munros day after day for a week, hopefully enjoying some fine weather in the process.

With this aim in mind, I have set up this blog to record some of these memories, and started it off with some posts previously published on my original blog (now to be exclusively for restaurant reviews). Hopefully the posts here will be not too infrequent, as we aim to get out at least twice a month.

Enjoy!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

New Year Walks

A new year, and a new resolution - to work less and get out walking more. The aim - to be able to enjoy a week of walking at the start of May. Now it's been a while, so we are starting small - no Munros for a few weeks yet.

First up then was a stroll over Salisbury crags on New Years day (we were up too late to attempt anything further afield). Arthurs Seat itself was way too busy so we contented ourselves with wandering round the smaller hills.

St Anthony's Chapel

Why climb Arthurs seat on a day like this?

The sun did come out briefly, but there was quite a cold wind blowing, and the swans on St Margarets' Loch were certainly feeling the chill!

Swan on thin ice

The next day consisted of a very muddy struggle through Roslin Glen - not entirely satisfying, so search of something a bit more challenging we headed to the Ochils the day after.

A 10 mile walk over some nice rolling hills, through forests and across open (and slightly snowy) moorland on a circular route around Glen Sherrup. The weather was perfect - freezing (literally) and hardly a cloud in the sky; the views were unexpectedly phenomenal, taking in Ben Lomond, Ben Ledi, Stuc a Chroin and Ben Vorlich, and even Stob Binnein and Ben More far in the distance. A great day out was rounded off with the sight of 3 dippers in the River Devon as we returned to the car.