As one of the very few local hills of any real size I’d never been up, I’d long been intrigued by the prominent Corbett of Beinn Maol Chaluim which, despite standing proudly to the south of Bidean and being highly visible from the A82 between Glencoe Village and Achnacon, narrowly fails to make that silly Munro height, takes just as much effort to summit as its bigger neighbours and is surely therefore one of Glen Coe’s less-frequented peaks. (more…)
18 October 2009
16 October 2009
Munros old and new
Been out on the hills this past couple of days, with yet another run on my ‘home ground’ of the central Mamores (surely my most trodden hills with the possible exceptions of the Ben and the Buachaille) followed by something new today. (more…)
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14 October 2009
Cateran Trail Race 2010
Today I posted my entry for the 2010 Cateran Trail Race. (more…)
4 October 2009
Running on neglected hills
Despite desperately craving some good outdoor activity, yesterday was so foul that I had no hesitation in agreeing to climb indoors at The Ice Factor with Stevie Abbott. And I managed a good two hours of sensibly-chosen routes without making my fingers obviously worse. (more…)
12 September 2009
I believed in antelopes
So (after weeks of rain) we’ve got a glorious September Saturday, my arrangement to climb with Isi doesn’t seem to have worked out, the mower’s been returned to the shed in disgrace (won’t start), the rose on my weedkiller can is broken and I’m needing to get outside and do something… (more…)
10 September 2009
Hamstring
Having been plagued by this persistent hamstring niggle all year when running (not so far an issue for climbing or walking) and seen it get obviously worse over the past fortnight, I went to see Chris Ellis (highly-regarded sports-specialist partner in our local GP practice) about it today. And no-one listening would have been in much doubt that I let Chris know when he’d located the troublesome spot! (more…)
1 August 2009
Recent running books
Having a certain amount of time to kill with some rainy summer holiday days and an increasingly tidy house, I’ve got through three recently published and purchased running books over the past week. (more…)
16 July 2009
Running ‘for Dario’
This afternoon I put on my 2007 WHW Race top (the one I earned by running the race rather than sweeping the final stage) and set out to run my favourite section over the Devil’s Staircase to Altnafeadh and back as my own little personal tribute to Dario. (more…)
15 July 2009
Dario Melaragni
While there have been many tributes to Dario published over the past few days and there’s only so much more I can add to them now, perhaps there’s still room here for a few thoughts of my own… (more…)
28 June 2009
Fast and fun in Glen Coe
Having spent most of this morning working on a couple of websites and feeling the need for some exercise, a quick visit to Glen Coe for a run up to the East Face of Aonach Dubh and solo of the fantastic Quiver Rib (Diff) suddenly took my fancy, so off I went. And it was good, with the full 150m Lower Bow/Quiver Rib combination taking little more than 10 minutes on bone dry rock and the entire road-to-road round coming in at about 78 minutes (NB I’m so fat and unfit at the minute!)…
Saw teams on Eve’s Arete, Curving Crack and Rowan Tree Wall, but had my routes to myself and was up and down while they were all still there. :-)
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