First snow this winter

Facing the wind (tail still wagging)


 QUESTION
What do you do when 1 third of the family is suffering from a hangover and the penultimate Grand Prix is on the telly
ANSWER
Clear out for the day and climb a couple of hills

Was this wise?  Had to scrape the car windows, thick ice, kinda chilly, but usually that means a nice day later.  Nice low hills near Edzell would do for the day, no geocaches up there, but a couple of trig pillars so at least there is a purpose to the hike. 
A big difference from my last day out in the hills when I could see about 13m in front of me, today I could see for miles and miles and miles, well at least as far as North Berwick Law on the Firth of Forth, and Bennachie I saw poking its summit above the closer hills.

Mutley had his first roll in the snow of the 2010/11 winter season, and had a wee bit fun chasing grouse, thankfully they have wings and can escape easily.

We summitted on 3 hills  East Wirren 637m,  Hill of Corathro 405m & The Crannel 291m, walking about 7 miles with about 1,060' of ascent, an awful lot of ups and downs for an old doggy, just as well I took along some doggy snacks and some chunks of cheese as an extra special treat.  I wonder if that would work for the missing family member today maybe substitute chocolate for doggy snacks.

Our first wee pimple of a hill today and a view of the path to the summit of East Wirren.  The square Breeze block to the right is full of grouse grit, lots of these dotted over the hillside marked by fence posts and sometimes a bit of a track between them, making for easier walking on some of the untracked heathery hillside.






A great day out but Mutley is suffering today (Monday) thankfully it is my day off so dont have to walk today.

Glen Tanar

January 10th 2010

The Boat House

 Lots of snow this year, I love it, look forward to getting loads of ski-ing this year or so I thought.  Glen Tanar, not a day for fishing, honest there is a loch under all that snow, but what kind of loch creature leaves a hill like that in the middle of the loch.  Mike wouldnt let me go out to investigate.  I bowed to his superior judgement.  So pleased there had been some vehicles around the tracks walking was reasonably easy, but cross country ski-ing would have been so much more fun.

As we were leaving a dejected voice echoes "wont be fishing here for a few months".



Snowy trails in Glen Tanar

When these photos were taken little did we know that it would be the last day out for me for a few months, and that thoughts of ski-ing were the last thing on my mind.

Its surprising how quickly you learn to adjust to something that a few hours previously would have been completely alien to you.

Icicles on the Game Store

Seven hours after this photo was taken I was lying flat on my back in ARI with a broken vertebrae, it was no fun, but on reflection the circumstances are enough to have you rolling around on the floor in hysterics, although it was to be some months before I would be rolling anywhere.

Our Profile explained

Ok well the motorbike bit is easily explained

Thats our 2 at the front, multi coloured one is his, the blue 1 is hers. 
So pleased we got this trip in when we did as the road to Applecross is now closed and will be for the next few months to repair a section of the road.

GEOCACHING



A geocaching view

Ok geocaching might take a bit more explaining.

geocaching
click the link it will tell all
basically you go on a treasure hunt, armed with a hand held gps device, box of treasure to swap, and sometimes you will have a traveller like the one on the photo.
Geocaching has taken us to some fantastic places that we would have otherwise not have know existed.

In the caching world we are B.bird. 

FLY FISHING




Mike loves to go fly fishing on the Loch at Glen Tanar  peaceful, plenty fish to keep him happy and a few rabbits for Mutley to chase around.

This beauty was caught on Loch Heath in Glen Clova, it was then expertly grilled on the BBQ at Gathering in the Glens, an annual Geocaching event.

Mike does the catching, Liz takes care of the gutting and eating.  However on this occasion the fish was shared with fellow cachers The Bramleys.


Mike you really dont know what you are missing I think I get the best deal from your days out fishing X x x



My boat at Glen Tanar

 

HILLWALKING

What ever the weather, what ever the season hopefully these 2 photos will say all that needs to be said about the attraction of the Scottish Mountains hold.  They don’t need to be Munro sized, the sun doesn’t need to shine, all I need is a rucksack, a map preferably the pink covered OS one, a compass and a few hours of daylight, and I am in my element.   A flask full of hot bean chilli helps when the weather is a bit on the cooler side.

Glas Maol without skiers

Meall Garbh & Beinn nan Eachenan from Meall nan Tarmachan  summit


Ok well that’s it for now, that’s the things we do in general, sometime I will get around to filling in the details and share some of the exploits that make us Milimut.......









Lets get Started

Ok its about time we started to keep notes what with age and memory stuff.
Who are we?
Mi  well thats Mike
li   always trailing behind thats Liz
mut  our adorable dog Mutley

Thats us Mili

Not the best photo of Mutley.
Sometimes Mutley gets to go hill walking but only if he promises not to try to catch the local wildlife.