{"id":3433,"date":"2011-04-11T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T08:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:03:45","slug":"round-the-turret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/round-the-turret.html","title":{"rendered":"Round the Turret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No joint training for the Highlander this past weekend with Jon and me heading for separate weddings (his brother, my cousin) on Saturday. But, with a high-level circuit of Glen Turret (or Loch Turret if you prefer) to grab Auchnafree Hill and Ben Chonzie (my only &#8216;unticked&#8217; Munro or Top in the Southern Highlands) not too far off my direct route to Edinburgh, you can probably guess what I did on the way!<!--more--> So you might spot some interesting zigzags in my track as I played &#8216;join  the dots&#8217; with multiple, hilltop cairns to give 12.7 miles\/3,700 ft of ascent on mostly rolling heathery terrain (not forgetting all those peat hags on the north-east side!) and might be interested to know that I&#8217;ve never seen so many mountain hares in my life (now all on the turn from winter to summer colouring) but, apart a quick mention for the burning April sun, I think that&#8217;s about it for now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-04-09map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3435\" title=\"2011-04-09map\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-04-09map-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-04-09map-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-04-09map-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-04-09map.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No joint training for the Highlander this past weekend with Jon and me heading for separate weddings (his brother, my cousin) on Saturday. But, with a high-level circuit of Glen Turret (or Loch Turret if you prefer) to grab Auchnafree Hill and Ben Chonzie (my only &#8216;unticked&#8217; Munro or Top in the Southern Highlands) not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11849,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/11849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}