Showing posts with label Beinn Alligin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beinn Alligin. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

On top of the world

What a relief! After being 'confined to barracks' all Sunday while Storm Kathleen continued to rage, the winds finally abated somewhat on Sunday night.

Even better, our nice Torridon neighbours invited Gail and me to join them on a hillwalking expedition the next day.

Here I am on the Beinn Alligin ridge. You just can't beat that 'top of the world' feeling.

Oh and yes, it was still a wee bit breezy on the summit. 

In fact, the humans deemed it too 'breezy' to continue along the ridge and do the full circuit, so we stopped at the first peak, Tom na Gruagaich, and went down again.

It's a steep ascent/descent and I did notice Gail walking a bit funny the following morning. But don't worry, I was fine! 

Friday, 28 July 2023

A different relationship to gravity...

Another special post today, combining the LLB Gang's Nature Friday blog hop with our friend YAM-aunty's Final Friday Feature.


A Young Dog Ascends Beinn Alligin, 22 July, 2023


Nobby, do you have springs for paw pads?
Did Oscar Pistorius
Lend you his blades?
Or is there perhaps,
Hidden in those wiry haunches,
A micro-motor stolen from
A cheating rider in the Tour de France?

Maybe you made a secret pact,
With Isaac Newton, thus to counteract,
The laws of gravity?

I cannot otherwise explain,
How you dance up
Our steepest Scottish peaks
With such apparent ease and grace.
So light of foot, 
A wonder to behold,
While I clomp slowly, far behind,
Feeling rather old.