Competition Closed
Thanks everybody who entered :o)
Big Agnes have given me a fantastic Lost Dog Primaloft sleeping bag to give away. It’s a killer bit of kit for lightweight summer camping. It’s a left zip/ regular length.
It’s a great prize so I’m going to make it a quirky competition. I’ve got a new Big Agnes Seedhouse SL1 tent, Zirkel down bag and new AirCore mat to test, and that is part of my question…
What Scottish summit will I pitch the tent on?
Simple as that, suggest something I wouldn’t think of (not the In Pin or an island thanks) and if I can get the tent on it you win a sleeping bag. I’ll keep this open for a while and multiple entries are very welcome.
Stick suggestions in the comments below or through the contact form and I’ll add them to the list.
- Caisteal Liath on Suilven, 731m
- Ben Hope, 927m
- Stuc a’ Chroin, 975m
- Stob a’ Choin, 896m
- Bla Bheinn, 928m
- Beinn Narnain, 926m
- Ben Cleuch, 721m
- Ladhar Bheinn, 1020m
- Quinag, 808m
- Creise, 1100m
- Stob Binnein, 1165m
- Sgurr na Ciche, 1040m
- Dun Caan, 443m
- Slioch, 980m
- Beinn a’Bhùiridh, 897m
- Firthybrig Head, 763m
- Tarmachan Ridge
- Ben Avon, 1171m
- Aonach Beag, 1234m
- Ben Cruachan, 1126m
- Torridon
- An Teallach
- Arthur’s Seat 251m
- Seana Bhraigh, 926m
- Beinn Gaire, 666m
- Glamaig, 775m
- Beinn Each, 813m
- Ciste Dubh, 929m
- Beinn Dearg, 1084
- Maoile Lunndaidh, 1007m
- Beinn nan Aighenan, 960m
- Conival, 987m
- Quiraing
- Ben Buie, 717m
- Stob Garbh (Cruachan), 980m
- Beinn a’ Bhuird, 1197
- Leathad Mor , 547m
After a cracking day up there yesterday (we saw one family down on the track in Glen Ample all day), I’d say Beinn Each, a great we spot on the top, point your porch towards Stuc a’ Chroin and watch the sun rise over it from your pit.
That is a good spot.
I’m glad Holly’s picking the winner.
Ok,gonna throw another one into the hat…or err the bowl as the case may be.
Ciste Dhubh…for no other reason than it has a very cool name,kinda like the title of a song by a scandinavian black metal band!!…black chest….oh yeah!
Ooh, that’s another pointy one in…
Just spent a long weekend sailing (for the first time) with some friends all the way round Mull – fantastic from every angle. So obviously I have to add something from there to the list – Ben Buie overlooking Loch Buie, where we anchored on the Sun night.
Brilliant, I did that same sail about 30 years ago. I got bitten by a swan in Tobermory.
Buie’s on the list.
I saw that ironmonger’s in Tobermory you were talking about with the guitars on the top shelf – Browns is it? – brilliant stuff!
It really was an amazing experience – I’m sunburnt & knackered, but still grinning like a 5 year old.
These guys http://www.brownstobermory.co.uk/index.html#
It’s great to do something so completely different, magic :o)
Aye, that’s the one – it’s the first time I can remember taking a photo inside a shop
Hi ptc!!
Now remember I dont know Scotland yet, plan to put that right this year, but…..
….how about Stob Garbh above the Cruachan Reservoir? Thats area is one I would love to do, it looks superb.
You’ve probably been up there a million times before though, mate!! :-)
Hey, good lad!
Cruachan has been a popular choice, that’s the third top on the group that’s been picked.
Stob Garbh is a cracking spot right enough, on the list it goes.
Nice one!
Once Ive got a couple of Welsh wild camps out of the way, Im planing on heading up there for my birthday in September.
It looks stunning, and a great introduction to Scotland!
I really have to get down to Wales at some point…
Hope you have a good trip up here in September. Cruachan is just as good as it looks in the guide books.
Here’s jyc on it a few years back :o)
Ah, I put that on Photobucket before I started cropping the photies to a manageable size I see :o)
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
For Chris who sent in Beinn a’ Bhuird through the contact form. Thanks for entering, but my reply email bounced back as undeliverable, please send me your contact details again in case you win!
Here’s a ‘sporting’ one…. Leathad Mor
“Where?” you ask. Gridref 378 510 on the south side of Rannoch Moor, 547m. I have no idea what it’s like, although it looks to have a twee little twin summit on a horseshoe ridge with a tiny lochan, and it may have great views over to the Blackmount and Glencoe. But it’s the devil in me that thinks you’ll have a very interesting bog-trot to approach it from any direction!! Tee-hee ;O)
I’ll tell ye though, you can cycle a good bit of that route.
Anyway, if this wins you can collect the prize on point 534m next door :o)
LOL, you’re on!! :))
Actually, yes, if you come in from Bridge of Gaur the forest roads will get you pretty close. I was thinking of the Rannoch moor on foot approach!
I biked Rannoch Station to the Kingshouse a few years back – with a full pannier load on board you can push a fair bit of that route!!
Last year the teams on the WARC race had to take kayaks across Rannoch. They paddled some of it and portaged some of it. Dragging kayaks on a trolley across the Rannoch heather in the pissing rain?
No thanks :o0
It’s a thing I’ll need to do though is cross Rannoch Moor. Train to Rannoch Station walk out to Loch Ba and the A82 and then over to the West Highland Way and down to Bridge of Orchy for a train home. Or Tyndrum so I can visit the Real Food Cafe :o)