Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Hillwalking at Glen Lyon

Tramping has many different names in different parts of the world - in Britain it's called hillwalking (rambling in England, perhaps where there aren't any real hills involved?), in Australia it's bushwalking, in North America hiking.

Anyway, I organised a hillwalk with a bunch of my workmates (and a few of Sylvia's) at a place called Glen Lyon. It's a seldom visited part of Scotland, but it's hardly remote, lying in the southern highlands - I think it's the long, windy road that puts people off more than the remoteness. It was certainly worth the journey though!

I won't harp on about it but here's a few pictures. Photo credits for some go to Eric.

The famous five go hillwalking! It was quite a steep descent back to the car.



Sylvia's workmate Shehu shows us how it's done in style.



Rannoch Moor and Glencoe (scene of a previous blog post) in the background.

Loch Lyon

Sylvia demonstrate how to bum slide when there's no snow. The only spaniards they have in Scotland are the two-legged variety.

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