Marywell - Aboyne via Carn Ferg & the Fungle
The fine weather gave us our best ever attendance for a monthly walk yesterday - 8 of us made it in the end. Nigel and John weren't available but Steve made his debut and Jeb decided to take an afternoon off work to join us - for the first time since the Yorkshire Dales holiday last year. Even our leader, Ken, joined us for the first time since walk 10 of 2017. Dave had hatched a cunning plot - the Banchorians should catch the 13:52 bus out to Potarch, where Dave would meet us in his car and shuttle us up to the red telephone box at Marywell where Ken would be waiting for us at the start of the walk. It was a tight budget - the walk was estimated to take three and a half hours and we knew we would only have limited time in the Boat Inn, Aboyne as we had to catch the 20:12 bus home. Things got off to a bad start when we discovered that the 13:52, of all buses, had to be the one that goes up to Glen o' Dee Hospital, so we were a few minutes late in starting the walk. Conse...