THE GOAL

Starting on 17th May 2012 Joe Mann and Peter Holder will attempt to walk to the top of all the Scottish Munros. There are 283 of them!





Friday, 15 June 2012

Half Way!! woop woop (and a big tree)


Over the last few days it has been very difficult to find internet, so to prove ware continuing our endeavor to keep in touch with the outside world we drove 20 miles to Pitlochry in search of internet signal............................................... So what has happened?... Tuesday: Ben More day, Keith (Peters dad) joined us for Ben More to climb his first Scottish mountain, which coincidentally was Peters first ever hill too! Wethen left Keith to find his own way back while we continued over 6 more Munros (SW of Ben More and Stob Binnen)........................................................ Wednesday: 4 Munros near Arochar with great views of the Cobbler from Beinn Narnain.................................. Thursday:In the morning we walked up the isolated Beinn Bhuidhe then drove to do Carn Gorm, Meall Garbh, Carn Mairg & Creag Mhor............................... Friday: Just Schiehallion today!.............................. we walked up a few hills, climbed a few Munros et cetera, but that's not particularly interesting!... what is interesting is that we saw Britain largest tree! :-) Yep, As we were driving through a small village named 'Cairnhow', we noticced signs for Britains largest tree,... We definitely had to stop to see it................................................................. Here it is... it is a 64.3m Grand Fir. We are now on day 30 of our wee adventure, exactly half way of our 60 day schedule, and we have walked up 144 out of 283 Munros meaning we are slightly ahead of target, which is nice, but we also want to use the full 60days so we can have more fun exploring Scotland. Highlights of the last few days were, -Enjoying the Company of Keith (Peters Dad) -The view the Cobbler near Arochar -Getting picked up by 2 Germans wearing Lederhosen while hitching back to our van -Reaching the half way point (all downhill from now) Down points - Cycling for 5 miles along the road and back to reach Beinn Bhuidhe to find we could have drove down the road. Bouldering in the mountains Crazy Clouds Pete's mustache after on 30 days!!

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