Wednesday 17/03/2010. A bit of a wild night but I was up and away from my camp at 7.30am. for the walk downhill with Dumgoyach Hill up on my right hand side. It's a grand dry morning and I'm keen to get some miles eaten up so step out lively and the terrain is very accommodating nice and flat and I am pleased to see that three miles per hour is quite a comfortable pace, which is a lot faster than I have been able to maintain on my winter walks on the North Yorks Moors. The highlights of the morning were seeing a fallow deer cross the track in front of me then at almost the same time watching a pair of Buzzards scouting out a rookery and being seen off individually, strangely, only two defenders present but by tackling a predator apiece they saved their progeny (this time). Todays walk takes me onto Lochlomonside for the twenty mile or so stretch over the lovely Conich Hill to Balmaha and on to Rowardennan to Inverarnan, Inversnaid, Doune Bothy and Tyndrum. I walked a total of 27 miles during the course of the day and camped on the shores of Loch Lomond with the Ben towering over all. Ben Lomond was the first Highland Hill I ever climbed, I would be about 14 and on a school outing, one of those early taster sessions that so gripped me that I am held fast still. During my working career as a sales Rep for Elbeo Ltd., in the early 1970's I had a regular three weekly trip up to Inverness from my home in Hurlford near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. After completing business calls in Inverness I would return to home down the Great Glen to Fort William and then through Glencoe to Glasgow and so to Hurlford. I must have travelled on the mian-road side of Loch Lomond dozens of times but this is the first time I have made a journey along the "Ben" side of the Loch, and on foot it is a better way to travel. 31 miles completed by the time I got to my campsite in the picture, a beautiful place to spend a night, quiet, alone and all my world wrapped in the still goodness of a gentle night.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
THE HIGH ROAD - WEST HIGHLAND WAY
Wednesday 17/03/2010. A bit of a wild night but I was up and away from my camp at 7.30am. for the walk downhill with Dumgoyach Hill up on my right hand side. It's a grand dry morning and I'm keen to get some miles eaten up so step out lively and the terrain is very accommodating nice and flat and I am pleased to see that three miles per hour is quite a comfortable pace, which is a lot faster than I have been able to maintain on my winter walks on the North Yorks Moors. The highlights of the morning were seeing a fallow deer cross the track in front of me then at almost the same time watching a pair of Buzzards scouting out a rookery and being seen off individually, strangely, only two defenders present but by tackling a predator apiece they saved their progeny (this time). Todays walk takes me onto Lochlomonside for the twenty mile or so stretch over the lovely Conich Hill to Balmaha and on to Rowardennan to Inverarnan, Inversnaid, Doune Bothy and Tyndrum. I walked a total of 27 miles during the course of the day and camped on the shores of Loch Lomond with the Ben towering over all. Ben Lomond was the first Highland Hill I ever climbed, I would be about 14 and on a school outing, one of those early taster sessions that so gripped me that I am held fast still. During my working career as a sales Rep for Elbeo Ltd., in the early 1970's I had a regular three weekly trip up to Inverness from my home in Hurlford near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. After completing business calls in Inverness I would return to home down the Great Glen to Fort William and then through Glencoe to Glasgow and so to Hurlford. I must have travelled on the mian-road side of Loch Lomond dozens of times but this is the first time I have made a journey along the "Ben" side of the Loch, and on foot it is a better way to travel. 31 miles completed by the time I got to my campsite in the picture, a beautiful place to spend a night, quiet, alone and all my world wrapped in the still goodness of a gentle night.
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