Lochnagar
It proved difficult to agree a date for all of us to tackle what would be the first official Munro for most of us - Lochnagar. In the end, 5 of us left Banchory just after 7:30 am on Thursday to drive out to the car park in Glen Muick - me, John McW, Colin, Steve and Dave. The first obstacle was buying a parking ticket - only John had any coins and he could only rustle up a total of £3.90 - tantalisingly just 10 p. short. The option of paying via PayPal was thwarted by a lack of any mobile phone signal, but eventually John managed to beg/borrow the required amount from a fellow walker and feed the machine with the correct amount: So we set off on our epic adventure at 8:40 am. Steve, who was the only one of us who had done the walk before, recommended we do the full loop - straight up via the right hand hand route and back down past the Glas Allt Falls. Conditions were pretty good at the start and the initial part of the walk was on fairly good quality trails: Time ...