Highways Hillwalking Club December Meet (Peebles)

(14.12.2014) Hundleshope Height 685m, 15km, 5hrs

 A direct ascent of Hundleshope Height 685m was made by walking South up Glen Sax as far as the house at Upper Newby then up the ridge and over Dead Side to the summit. It was a wild and windy day with occasional flurries of snow and rainy spells and large patches of snow near the summit. It was too windy on top for a lunch break so we headed north and dropped down into the valley towards Crookston then back along a quiet road to Peebles, arriving near the road bridge.

Ptarmigan December Meet (Glen Almond)

(7.12.2014) Amulree Grahams, 14km, 5hrs

Me and Graham were dropped off just before the Amulree Hotel on the A822 and followed the road until we took the land rover track up to Girron Farm. We stayed on the track for a few km until we saw Meall nan Caorach 624m. The summit was clear after a brief white out. We then continued down the ridge to the 587m top before descending downhill then following the fence line SW up to the summit of Meall Reamhar 620m.  We continued on SW down to the landrover track and followed the road back to Sma Glen . The snow was soft to walk on but there was long periods of white out conditions.