Banchory Veterans' Hill-walkers

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ Just realised June is over today, so it's well past time for planning for the July walk. The only date I can do is Sunday 24th July - is that any good to anyone else?

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ From the Adidas site, the printout of the summary stats from yesterday: Incidentally, I wish I'd read the Piper before yesterday - apparently the route on the south side of the river from Cambus o' May to Ballater was newly opened last Wednesday - that would have kept us away from the main road and brought us in to the right part of Ballater too.

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ In the end we were 5 strong for this morning's walk along the Deeside Way - Dave, Colin, Dan, me and John - but no Messrs. Sharp nor Meany - apparently the former had too many things to do before heading off on holiday on Thursday, and the latter, who was always a slightly dodgy starter, pulled out last night after a day of rain in Banchory - doesn't he remember how changeable our climate is and didn't he check the forecasts for Sunday? It turned out to be a beautiful morning and everything worked like clockwork. Dan and John were seated together when Colin and I got on the bus at the High St, and Dave was waiting for us at Potarch - he was the only fare paying passenger on the bus - everyone else used their free passes! We alighted at the Huntly Arms stop at Aboyne and crossed the road to join the Deeside Way. At the start, I couldn't get a GPS signal to start off my Blackberry app which monitors the distance, pace, elevat...

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/ Dave, Colin, Dan and I are all confirmed for Sunday, with John McW and Ian Sh also possibly joining us - both will make a late decision. We could also have Nigel coming along - he's home this weekend and has threatened to look out his walking boots and join us! Plan is to catch the 201 bus at 8:40 on the High St (or 8:34 at Raemoir Rd) - see you then. For those travelling to the Lake District in September, we are staying in the Scafell Hotel, Rosthwaite on Saturday and Sunday nights and it features in CAMRA's publication Lake District Pub Walks: (Click to enlarge)