tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6429013260986201371.post3707139891264703996..comments2024-03-27T00:02:28.418+00:00Comments on Alex and Bob`s Blue Sky Scotland: Breabag,Assynt.blueskyscotlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09373718369702364265noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6429013260986201371.post-69575817764243008762011-03-11T11:30:44.811+00:002011-03-11T11:30:44.811+00:00Cheers Neil. I imagine it would be a great hill if...Cheers Neil. I imagine it would be a great hill if you could see anything from the heights. They all are up that way.Hope you get a good day for it.<br />Pete.Yet another book I,ll need to look up.Maybe one day We,ll have read the same thing.Dont tend to read many outdoor books nowadays.Last good one was the factual account by Nick Heil.Dark Summit about the high altitude circus that takes place on Everest every year.Never seen the attraction of hills above 20,000 feet myself.Too much pain and suffering for any glory gained.Going up to glen nevis soon and taking up Wicked..Gregory Maguires book,a modern prequel to the Wizard of Oz that the hit musical of the life and times of the wicked witch of the west was based on.Read half way through it and thought this is good I,ll save the rest for the hut in case its grim weather.Its mad, bad and brillant so far.Cant see the musical (a slightly toned down affair I,d imagine) featuring an uncaring nympo mother and a little girl with teeth like a polecat that bites anything she manages to catch in the garden:0)<br />bob.blueskyscotlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09373718369702364265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6429013260986201371.post-26717941677799737062011-03-10T11:30:27.695+00:002011-03-10T11:30:27.695+00:00Braebag is a much underated hill; it's years s...Braebag is a much underated hill; it's years since I climbed it (on a not particularly good day if I mind right) but after reading your report I've put it on my "to do" list.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01521811229603749067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6429013260986201371.post-14051242019862994262011-03-10T07:57:56.664+00:002011-03-10T07:57:56.664+00:00As soon as the current round of Hebridean visits i...As soon as the current round of Hebridean visits is done, I'm off to Assynt. But not in winter. I like a winter day or two in the hills, but not on jaggy, exposed ridges in the teeth of a hurricane, thanks.<br /><br />Have you seen Kirsty Shirra's book, 'Scotland's Fifty Best Small Mountains'? She rightly points out that what some hills lack in stature, they more than make up for in grandeur. A fair few of Kirsty's hills are in Sutherland and Wester Ross, unsurprisingly.<br /><br />I like the penguin image, Bob.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6429013260986201371.post-62262711905130716482011-03-10T00:11:37.153+00:002011-03-10T00:11:37.153+00:00Thanks guys.This is one of my Favourite areas in t...Thanks guys.This is one of my Favourite areas in the UK but if anyones going to go there..... For God,s sake please go in the spring...April, May or June when its at its most beautiful outstanding best.Going in winter, unless its perfect weather,(you,ll be lucky!) is like visiting a theme park when its all closed down for repairs.Well thats how I feel about it.Alex may have a different point of view.<br />Its taken me a long time to work out but I think a lot of folk genuinely dont mind poor weather on the hills.Give them a choice of a big mountain in grim,grey conditions or a lesser hill in Mediterranean temperatures and sunshine and they will pick the mountain every time. I have to be honest..that baffles me??? I sometimes feel like that little cartoon penquin on its iceberg forever paddling to the warm sunny south among polar bears and greenland sharks all intent on pulling northwards.<br />However,Perversely,if I lived in a really hot dry country I,ve got a sneaky feeling I,d probably be an avid rain and cloud chaser after a while.Such is life... said a disappointed man who had his legs shot out from under him while wearing a homemade metal jacket:0)blueskyscotlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09373718369702364265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6429013260986201371.post-64790283633472447552011-03-09T09:42:09.468+00:002011-03-09T09:42:09.468+00:00Very intrepid gentlemen and great pictures.I never...Very intrepid gentlemen and great pictures.I never realised we had so much unique landscape till I started reading your blog.Too long exilled.The Glebe Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09609629219727888442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6429013260986201371.post-43968601353382895952011-03-08T20:28:28.235+00:002011-03-08T20:28:28.235+00:00Great stuff from an amazing part of the world!
I ...Great stuff from an amazing part of the world!<br /><br />I still curse myself for not stopping at that bothy on Destitution Road the last time we were up - for a photo only I may add - the way the sun was hitting it was stunning that day - mind you the sun had nothing else to hit Pretty bleak. <br /><br /><br />Great black and white minstrel shot Bob - oops sorry - it was a balaclava - my mistake!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com