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Walking to the summit of Craigellachie

23 January 2017 / Walking / Craigellachie National Nature Reserve, iPhone photography, Scotland, walking

The day started off mild and sunny here, so taking advantage of the sun I headed up Craigellachie – which overlooks Scandinavian Village. It is a fairly straightforward walk, but most of it is up until you reach the “flatish” summit.

I also made a mistake, yesterday was not my coldest day. The summit and approaches were still frozen and icy, add the wind chill from the strong steady wind and it was several degrees below zero. But sunny.

One benefit of a sub-zero summit was that the boggy, muddy path was frozen so no wet and muddy boots on my return.

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Forest Walking Inverdruie

22 January 2017 / Walking / American Football, Aviemore, Geocaching, iPhone photography, lightweight walking, outdoor gear, walking

Looking at the weather forecast for the week today looks like to coldest day I will have – it was 1c when I went out at about 11am. It does not look like I will see any snow this trip – except this in Colchester last week.

I headed out to walk in the forest near Inverdruie and to get a geocache that the boys and I walked past last summer.

Here it is

It was easy today to find somewhere quiet to set up for lunch.

I wrote this whilst watching the Falcons playing Green Bay in the NFC Championship game – the Falcons and Matt Ryan have controlled the first half. I have my iPod hooked into the TV with the Apple HDMI adaptor, I also packed a 1m HDMI cable. Glad I am not at last week’s Hapimag Bowness timeshare as the wifi there was nearly nonexistent. I could not use my NFL Game Pass live there, I had to avoid the scores and downloaded the games offsite on better wifi. The wifi here at Scandinavian Village is great.

Here comes the second half.

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Sunday walk

22 January 2017 / Walking / Aviemore, Photos 2017, walking

More overcast weather.

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Grassmere Lake – Walking and Geocaching

20 January 2017 / Walking / black and white, Geocaching, iPhone photography, Lake District, VR, walking

For my last day in the Lakes I parked up near Grassmere and walked on the other side of Grassmere Lake to where I was on Monday. Although most of the day was overcast there were some splashes of sun and even a short sunset, but that was when I was in the car heading back.

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I also saw a very well kept “VR” post box along my walk.

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Woodland Walking

19 January 2017 / Walking / Geocaching, Lake District, walking

It was a dark and grey day today so I went walking locally using geocaches as my guide. Score for the day was five and it took me on an interesting walk around Bowness.

The Sherriff’s Walk

It was named after G. H. Pattinson who originally presented this land to the public, he was a former ‘High Sherriff of Cumbria’.

Bowness

An interesting name for a shop – click on the above image for a larger version

The remains of the Windermere Steamer The Swift. When the boat could not be preserved some parts were saved and now the are a feature at a shopping parade in the town.

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Helm Crag

18 January 2017 / Walking / hiking, iPhone photography, Lake District, walking

I had to work on some quotes and documentation this morning, so I did not leave the timeshare until nearly midday, which meant it was about 1pm when I set out for Helm Crag. This meant that I did not have enough time to find the geocache that is near the summit but I did have time for some photographs.

Approach to Helm Crag