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Originally Posted by diggleken  I wonder if they just put a 6'' high stone on top of the hill for publicity? 
Seriously, Chris started my memory working for all those brilliant lonely mountains in Scotland - I too have spent many years hitting the M6, A9 etc to get up to some wildness on the west coast and Cairngorms. I loved to go to Ben Lawers too - the most amazing place for a mix of rare arctic and alpine flora because of its unique development history above glaciation combined with mica schist to support the rarities. Stunning to explore. A Munro too! |
Being a Diggle chap Ken, I bet you served your apprenticeship on Saddleworth Moor. I certainly spent a lot of my teenage walks up there. I remember a pal and I walking from Milnrow to Greenfield, probably in 1987, in thick mist. I got stuck in a peat bog near the Isle o' Skye road at one point, and we got hopelessly lost on the plateau of Black Hill. Ah good ol' days.
Regards, Chris