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list of Scottish Links
For an increasing number of people in the RMC, visiting Scotland on
a regular basis to walk, climb or ski is a must, despite the long
drive from Reading and the risk of meteorological instability (not
to mention the few million midges with their piranha-like friendliness
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Why Scotland ?
In most years we have a planned trip to Scotland, usually at Easter, when most people drive up on Thursday
and back home on the Tuesday. Some members also arrange between themselves a trip at New Year,
(usually staying the week between Christmas and New Year).
For both trips, we stay either in cottages, chalets or bunk-houses
(a hardy few have been known to camp !).
In the past few years we have stayed either in the Cairngorms or Glen
Coe at Easter, and up in Ullapool and Duirinish at New Year.
In addition to the above, a number of people also travel up
in February or March for winter mountaineering/ice-climbing
(depending on conditions) and some also spend a week or longer
at the end of May when the weather is usually the most reliable
and the days are long.
As a result of all this activity, a number of people in the
club are getting into the Munro-bagging game (whether they admit
it or not !). Indeed, some people have long since reached the
incurable stage (this usually happens when you've topped 100
Munros) and some, like Mark and Gillian, have actually
moved to Scotland to be nearer them !
If you are just starting out on the Munroing game, then you
cannot help but be inspired, and amused, by the 2 videos of
The Munro Show, presented by the quirky Muriel Gray,
and you will laugh yourself silly at her wonderful book, "The
First Fifty" (these can be borrowed from the club secretary).
Of course, Munros are not the only mountains in Scotland, there
are also a host of peaks between 2500 ft and 3000ft, called
Corbetts, which are often, unfortunately, seen as the
poor cousins of the Munros, but height alone is no criterion
and there are, in the ranks of Corbetts, many peaks of great
character, interest and beauty that are the equal to all but
a few Munros. Many of them contribute greatly to the mountainous
character of the Western and Northern Highlands and also contribute
much to the mountain scenery of the islands, such as Arran,
Jura, Rum and Harris.
Something to look forward to .... an interactive CD-Rom of the
Munros is to be published later in the year - you can put your
name down for news on this at Munros.Scotland.net
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