Banchory Veterans' Hill-walkers

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ I came across a book of the 100 Best Walks in Scotland, including a few local ones: The Stonehaven one is very short - but starting and finishing at the Marine sounds interesting!

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ Ken was at his pad on the west coast so it was just Dave, Colin and I that ventured up Glentanar yesterday. Ken had provided us with a route map and I had a copy of this with me. Dave had his trusty compass, so what could possibly go wrong? One of these statements is true - delete as appropriate: We didn't think Ken's suggestion was long enough or hard enough so we added a chunk on, or: We missed a turning You guessed it - the following shows Ken's original plan (blue dotted lines) and the bit that we inadvertently added on (pink lines) before meeting up with Ken's suggestion later: Ken had indicated the walk might take us about 4 hours, but, in the end we did the complete, extended walk in 4 hours 15 minutes - not a bad pace for the old boys to walk 18.1 kms, climbing up to 443 metres: I picked up Colin at 8 am and Dave shortly afterwards and we were at Glentanar by 8:30 am. The start of the walk was fairly flat along ...

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ Just three of us for this Sunday's walk - Dave, Colin and I. Ken's away for the weekend so we're fending for ourselves this time - we could get lost! I tentatively suggested Glentanar to Ken, and he's come up with a plan for a circular walk of about 4 hours - follow the blue dotted line:

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ This coming Sunday was the next scheduled date for our monthly walk - although Ian and Gordon both indicated they were away this weekend and couldn't make it. Dave is available but is booked on the 18:30 flight, so I suspect that excludes the possibility of us trying Lochnagar again - may have to try a shorter walk. Who else, apart from Dave, Colin and I, is available anyway? As an aside, Jo and I did a bit of walking this weekend. We were staying down at the Carrick at Loch Lomond, and, on Saturday, decided to take a short drive up the west side of the loch (opposite where we were staying) to Rowardennan, where one of the trails up Ben Lomond starts. We weren't organised - no food, no drink etc - but decided to climb a little anyway. We got to just short of 800 feet after an hour or so, but quit there and came back down for some beer and food. On Sunday, we decided to drive up the east side of the loch to Tarbet, where we caught a...