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Yesterday we went up to the highest point in south east England, which is Leith hill. Someone once built a tower on it to take it up to 1000 feet. Anyway it got me thinking of mountains. I don't get to them anywhere near as much as I would like to, but I love to scramble up mountains. This one is my favourite
http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/9328/allsorts714large3mu.jpg
It is Buachaille Etive Mor and guards the entrance to Glen Coe.
The reason it is my favourite is that it was my first Munro. We went up the easy route, Coire na Tulaich, but I will always remember the views over Rannock Moor from the top. I have since climbed it again, going up via Curved ridge and that was pretty scary to say the least, big on exposure. I have been up loads of the mountains around the Fort William area, but the Bookle still remains my favourite.
What is your favourite mountain and why................Jon
Appologies to our Netherland friends for this thread
Skiddaw in the lakes is my favourite plus added benefit is its hard to get up the first bit so you dont get the stilleto brigade yippeeeee!
Ben A'an, :) doesn't kill me getting up it :rolleyes: and stunning views all round from it too. Used to climb it carrying the boys in baby rucsacs, no improved footpaths in those days,.....good memories :) It's mobbed now, though.
http://www.incallander.co.uk/panoramas/benaanpan.htm
Cheers,
Toddy
Angus Og
29-12-2005, 18:47
I will be passing the mountain tomorrow on my way to stay in Kinlochleven for the New Year.
Here’s a picture I took in June this year from the kingshouse.
http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/8113/polesremovedcopy17iw.jpg
I still get excited when I see it at any time of year.
Iain..........Yes its is a good feeling you get when you first see it driving up the A82. Have a good time up at Kinlochleven, I envy you.
Toddy........That is a great link............Jon
Angus Og
29-12-2005, 19:53
Iain..........Yes its is a good feeling you get when you first see it driving up the A82. Have a good time up at Kinlochleven, I envy you.
I will do, been going up there for New Year since 1991. Got to get out and about more this time.
Here’s another view of the Buachaille Etive Mor whole length. Taken from the Blackwater Reservoir taken in end of April 04
http://img318.imageshack.us/img318/4429/img015614wj.jpg
Ben A'an, :) doesn't kill me getting up it :rolleyes: and stunning views all round from it too. Used to climb it carrying the boys in baby rucsacs, no improved footpaths in those days,.....good memories :) It's mobbed now, though.
http://www.incallander.co.uk/panoramas/benaanpan.htm
Cheers,
Toddy
Great little mountain in miniature Toddy - been up it a hundred times or more (I used to live near there).
My favourite UK hill is still Ben Lui in winter. Got to be the best grade one climb in the UK straight up central gully all the way to the top.
Pic of central gully here http://www.allanbrown.fsnet.co.uk/lui.htm
george
An easy one! - Tryfan in North Wales. I've lost count of the times I have been up it. I've seen / not seen the view from the top in all weathers. If there is a mountain I could say I know like th back of my hand it is this one (we regularly use it for Assesing Scout Mountain Leaders navigation and mountain skills and it is perfect!)
I've climbed far bigger tops (even seen a view from the top of some of them ;) ) but this is my favourate by far....
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk/wm/gl/915t75.jpg
demographic
29-12-2005, 21:28
Not quite a mountain but at 661 metres Carrock fell is the one I like best.
I used to live just beside it when I was a nipper and had a great view of it from my bedroom window, I used to play in amonst the huge rocks at the bottom of it and when I was older and into climbing I used them for bouldering practice.
I remember being about 8 years old and sleeping in the caravan that we had in the yard and there was a lightning storm, Carrock fell got hit a few times by lightning.
Made my night, seeing that.
Two of my older brothers worked down Carrock mine (a Tungsten mine that closed down in the early 80s) which was just round the back of it and ontop of the fell theres a pre-Roman hillfort.
Not far from the peak theres also a wooden bothy (Lingey hut) that I have spent a few winter nights in also.
I was a few hunderd yards from the top when me and a mate saw a golden eagle so for me even though it's only 661 metres high it stands head and shoulders above it's taller bretherin.
Its the one with the twin peaks in this picture and not at all far away from Skiddaw..
http://www.megalithic.org.uk/megp/gallery/gallery/England/Cumbria/carrock_fell_modern_stone.jpg
An easy one! - Tryfan in North Wales. I've lost count of the times I have been up it. I've seen / not seen the view from the top in all weathers.
Ditto. I love doing this one - although haven't been there for sometime now... which is tragic!
Topcat02
30-12-2005, 16:37
When I was 13 our Headmaster took a group of us on a 13 hour drive from Brum to Ullapool and Inchnadamph
We spent the week climbing various hills and mountains around coigach
http://www.summer-isles.co.uk/Resources/Ben%20Mor%20Coigach%20B.jpg
Ben A'an is indeed fantastic. It has the sort of view that is way out of proportion to the (relatively trivial) effort involved getting there. Go early and you can still have the summit to yourself. Also, like Suilven, it looks impossible from some angles but has a very straightforward path. I took my son Ross there as his first real hill walking trip.
Think I like Suilven best. It's not even a Munro. I spent 3 weeks in Lochinver as a locum and I like the area very much.
What is your favourite mountain and why................Jon
Appologies to our Netherland friends for this thread
No need to apologize to the dutchies. We just get our kicks elsewere. This is my favorite playground near our cabin in the Austrian Alps. The Inntal near the Italian/Swiss border to be exact. In the picture you see the GamsKopf (left) and the Feichtener Karlspitze a bit behind. I climbed most of the tops within a days distance of the cabin.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~eraaij/aus/alm_at_down.JPG
The picture was taken while enroute to another top, the Rother Schrofen. Here is a view from its top:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~eraaij/aus/top_roter_schrofen.JPG
-Emile
Greenpete
31-12-2005, 14:36
An easy one! - Tryfan in North Wales. I've lost count of the times I have been up it. I've seen / not seen the view from the top in all weathers. If there is a mountain I could say I know like th back of my hand it is this one (we regularly use it for Assesing Scout Mountain Leaders navigation and mountain skills and it is perfect!)
I've climbed far bigger tops (even seen a view from the top of some of them ;) ) but this is my favourate by far....
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk/wm/gl/915t75.jpg
I love that mountain too. I have fond memories of climbing and walking up it!
I can't remember the name of the easy multi pitch climb but it's poetry to climb, it seems so long ago now that I was there :sigh:
TallMikeM
31-12-2005, 16:19
Scafell Pike. I love the feelign of remoteness you get from being up there.
Can't make me mind up.......part of it is in the journey for me......either Hellvelyn via Striding Edge....or..... Great Gable from Honister Pass ....or ....Scafell Pike from Seathwaite...or....High Street via Rigindale Ridge, then again Skiddaw or Blencathra or Snowdon via Crib Goch......I'll settle on Great Gable.
demographic
31-12-2005, 21:28
Can't make me mind up.......part of it is in the journey for me......either Hellvelyn via Striding Edge....or..... Great Gable from Honister Pass ....or ....Scafell Pike from Seathwaite...or....High Street via Rigindale Ridge, then again Skiddaw or Blencathra or Snowdon via Crib Goch......I'll settle on Great Gable.
A few mates and I have ran down the screes on Great Gable, was quite an experience but there are some sections that have some fairly big stones among the small stuff :eek:
I set off first and as I went down I hit a bad bit, shouted behind me "Don't go there" as I continued on down...
My mates thought I said "Go there" :rolleyes: and all went down trhe dodgy bit.
Only one of them fell and he was OK (ish).
jdlenton
03-01-2006, 11:41
For me it's either the Buachaille Etive Mor or Tryfan......... hmmm
its got to be Tryfan and the Ogwen valley I love it there it was one of the first places i climbed as i teenager and i a place i got to know very well over the years i never get bored of it its just beautiful.
James
Simple choice - Sgur na Chiche (?) in the Knoydart, its not just the hill , but the fantastic country your walk thru to get there.
Neil
Snowdon in fully winter conditions with a summit bivvy is not bad ;) (Not for the faint hearted - decent was in whiteout conditions). Hey - I lived!
Y Lliwedd - the climbers route - 750 +/- ft of fantastically exposed climbing :eek:
You guys need to get to the Gredos Mountains of Spain - their best kept secret. High mountain trekking, stunning scenery, great wildlife etc etc etc
The Jungfrau - because it was a great trip up the railway and being able to be inside a glacier cave, and there were amazing views, and you could see huskies, and..........
arctic hobo
03-01-2006, 19:21
Really hard to say.
In summer, this baby: Store Midtmaradalstind, found in the Hurrungane massif of western Jotunheimen, Norway (actually they're all in Noreg, sorry to be unpatriotic :o )
http://www.etojm.com/Galleri/Galleri81_90/G81Dyrhaugsryggen/Storemidtmaradal.jpg
In winter, it has to be a mountain very close to the last one, and considerably more famous: Store Skagastølstindane, famously first climbed by WC Slingsby. In winter this route is transformed, the glacier climb is soft but always exciting rather than dangerous. The final ice-rimed rock becomes very tricky in places - and that view! Words cannot...
I can't find a decent winter pic, so here's a summer one to give you at least a vague idea:
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~heggland/fjelltur/storen_stor.gif
It's really close, but I think I have to go with those two :)
Wow, they look pretty serious, I take it your a climber AH..........Jon
arctic hobo
04-01-2006, 10:33
Wow, they look pretty serious, I take it your a climber AH..........Jon
Of sorts :) The pictures are quite misleading though, the second is a much harder climb than the first. And the rock is just lovely there :D
gregorach
04-01-2006, 12:03
Another vote for the Buachaille here, for two reasons: firstly, when you see it, you're really getting into the Highlands, which is always exciting; secondly, when you see it, you've made it over Rannoch moor, which is always a relief. ;)
Why do cars always break down in the middle of Rannoch, at dusk, in the rain?