Home again, home again...

[anteros_lmc]

Hello my dears, hope you've all been having a good week? I'm just back from Stornoway and looking forward to catching up over the next few days :) We had a good break, the weather was glorious and we had two flat calm crossings. Can't ask for more than that! I'll be back with a proper update and obligatory pics of sea an' hills an' shit shortly, but in the meantime, here's the Buachaille Etive Mor looking glorious.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

I'd love to climb this! Welcome back! :]

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I'm not an experienced climber at all and this mountain treacherous in winter so I will content myself with admiring it from the bottom!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

I'd wait until the snow has melted, too! But you wouldn't have to really climb up there, would you? I mean, with a rope and stuff? It looks as if one would just be able to scramble up there without having to do actual rock climbing.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

The route up the front of the Buachaille, which you can see in this pic, is graded as a severe rock climb, so yes, you'd definitely need ropes and stuff. There's a famous scrambling route up a ridge to the left and I think you may be able to walk up the back. It can be a dangerous mountain at any time though as the conditions change so rapidly, sadly it's claimed a few lives over years.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

Yeah, the front looks a bit like the Matterhorn… I wouldn't go up there. :D I wish we had bare mountains like that over here. There are no real scrambling sites at all around here.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is huge. are those buildings at the foot of it? My sense of scale is a little confused. And that sky!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

It is indeed huge! Over a thousand metres huge. I'm not entirely sure what the black thing at the foot of the mountain is but I think it's farm equipment rather than buildings. I took this picture from the van window as we drove past so I didn't get a close look :}

Btw Buachaille Etive Mor means the Great Shepherd of Etive, which is the name of the glen. There is also a Buchaille Etive Beag which is the Little Shepherd!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I should think there are definitely dwarves under there! No dragons though, they're further up Glencoe in the Hidden Valley. They're very shy dragons ;)

You should definitely visit the Hebrides one day, there's no where else quite like them and I defy anyone to find more beautiful beaches.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Highland dragons are very shy and retiring types :)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Welcome back. That's a fabuloous picture of a fabulous mountain.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Glencoe and the West Highlands were looking completely fabulous when we drove up last Friday :)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

*mwah mwah*

Did your ears burn on Friday? Many mentions of you.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Yikes! What am I supposed to have done now?! ;)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Only be wonderful...

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Tall order! XD

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

WOW O.O
What the black square object is? A house?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I think it's farm equipment rather than a building, but I could be wrong. I took this from the window of our camper van as we drove past :} The Buachaille is a very striking mountain isn't it?

[joyful-molly.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! And that's very beautiful, can't wait for your report!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Thank you my dear. It's a pleasure to be back :)