Sgiath Chuil

Matt and I headed up to Callander for a walk up Sgiath Chuil. The hill was fairly straight forward although it was all cross-country with no path at any point except a 15 minute section when we intersected and walked along a farm access dirt road. It wasn't too cold a day, but it was very changeable, with heavy rain at some points for a while. But we persevered and by the time we hit the top, the rain had stopped - although there were fairly high wind speeds near the top. After the victory photo, we headed down and on our way down the sun came out and the wind dropped; weather conditions which lasted for the rest of the day!

Glenshee Hills

Last Thursday morning, word came through that there was snow on the hills and some surveillance (well, a quick look at the Cairngorm Mountain webcam) confirmed this. The time had come; the time to start hill walking again. Al and I decided to head up and see if any of the snow had lasted until the weekend. As it had been a while since we last walked, something to gently break us in to the winter season was called for, so we headed for the Glenshee hills - The Cairnwell, Carn Aosda and Carn a'Gheoidh. Starting at the ski-center carpark at about 500m, it was an easy three munro walk. Not quite as much snow where we were as we'd hoped, but in the distance, the higher northern Cairngorms looked quite impressive. In some shallow, north-facing depressions in the ground we found some small patches of snow, the biggest of which is shown in the photos below - it wasn't that snowy everywhere!