Me and Mountains...

[Tengu]

Dont get on.

I went to look at Shiehallion. and decided it was too high and rough.

am I

a) lazy?

b) unfit?

c) dont get on with mountains?

 

[swyn]

I was always a water person never a mountain person.
I went climbing in Derbyshire with friends. There was more worry about gear theft that weekend than slips and falls.
Says a lot about the sport eh!
S

 

[hughtrimble]

Dont get on.

I went to look at Shiehallion. and decided it was too high and rough.

am I

a) lazy?

b) unfit?

c) dont get on with mountains?

d) Sensible?

When messing around with tall potentially suddenly windy cold things, being realistic is pretty important, I'd suggest. If you're not used to that sort of thing and aren't prepared for it, you did the right thing.

Perhaps make it a goal? Work up to it with other excursions before giving it another try, to build your confidence and also fitness to complete it?

 

[Woody girl]

Dont get on.

I went to look at Shiehallion. and decided it was too high and rough.

am I

a) lazy?

b) unfit?

c) dont get on with mountains?

I'd be with you on that one! Prefer the coast and a nice walk along a beach, but I'm getting old, and rickety!

 

[Toddy]

Shiehallion is a lovely hill, a bit scrambly/rocky in places, but you don't need to climb the whole thing. There's archaeology, there's history, there are beautiful views.

Break it down and find a bit of it you'd like to see, something of note, of interest, and maybe just wander up it that far.

 

[Limaed]

Some of the other hills in the Southern Highlands are quite straight forward if Schiehallion seems a bit much. Ben Chonzie has a bulldozed track most of the way up or you could try East & West Lomond for an easy day out.

 

[SaraR]

Dont get on.

I went to look at Shiehallion. and decided it was too high and rough.

am I

a) lazy?

b) unfit?

c) dont get on with mountains?

Your time, you do what you want with it!

I don't enjoy the up to the summit and down again approach as much as I do a nice ridgeline walk or a forest walk, no matter what level of fitness I'm at.

Nothing forcing you to go all the way up either though. I've often gone for some nice high lake or outcrop with a nice view and left it at that.

 

[Tengu]

Its all very novel to me. Im sure I will tackle it one day.

there are a lot of new things here; big loch, red squirrels. single track road, lack of shops....its a really nice (if remote) area

Plenty of trees; not barren like some of Scotland.

 

[Laurentius]

I have an abiding ambition to scale Gallt y Wennallt from the lake side since I have never seen anyone up on there which is odd considering how close it is to Snowdon. It is doable I am sure, and I could have done when I was younger, but as every year ticks by it seems less likely that I ever will. It is not that I don't think I could get to the top, but that the further up I go the more of a problem coming down as it is very steep.

 

[John Fenna]

You have to weigh up these things for yourself ... sometimes the result can be worth the world - but not always

 

[Broch]

I have an abiding ambition to scale Gallt y Wennallt from the lake side since I have never seen anyone up on there which is odd considering how close it is to Snowdon. It is doable I am sure, and I could have done when I was younger, but as every year ticks by it seems less likely that I ever will. It is not that I don't think I could get to the top, but that the further up I go the more of a problem coming down as it is very steep.

From Llyn Gwynant or Llyn LLydaw? There isn't an easy route, but maybe that's why it's attractive (and quiet). There is a path that takes you to within a km of the top but from there it's it's over rock and heather

I used to love watching the ants crawl over Snowdon from the relative quiet of the Glyders

I've never been interested in 'bagging' mountain tops, but I do like getting up high - but yep, getting down is more a problem these days

 

[knowledge=gain]

but yep, getting down is more a problem these days

more of a problem coming down as it is very steep.

remember when we used to roly-poly down the hills

its a different game these days

 

[Laurentius]

From Llyn Gwynant or Llyn LLydaw? There isn't an easy route, but maybe that's why it's attractive (and quiet). There is a path that takes you to within a km of the top but from there it's it's over rock and heather

I used to love watching the ants crawl over Snowdon from the relative quiet of the Glyders

I've never been interested in 'bagging' mountain tops, but I do like getting up high - but yep, getting down is more a problem these days

There is a diversion from the start of the Watkin path that leads up there, and I have looked at it from the Llyn Llydaw direction. From Llyn Gwynant it is very steep and a long way up, I think actually if I went up that way I could well go down an easier route. I intend to go back in September anyway. I can remember when I was much younger running (yes running) up the side of the Cairnwell in Scotland ahead of the chairlift, but I did not have an arthritic knee then.