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A Sunny Walk Through The Lairig Ghru to An Garbh Choire

1 week ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Early April has been a time of warmth and sunshine. A fewdays ago I sat on the summit of Cairn Gorm, shirt sleeves rolled up, gazing atthe golden-brown hills, thesnow on which I’d camped less than three weeks before gone. It felt andlooked more like July than April. As we approach the middle of the month the weather ischanging though, the sunshine soon to be a memory. Snow is forecast for CairnGorm, rain for the glens. During the hot weather I had one overnight trip.
A video of a trip through the Lairig Ghru to An Garbh Choire in the Cairngorms

2 weeks ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Backpacking stove gas canisters tend to be replaced when almost empty because the heat from them is no longer enough to be of use. At least ... Jetboil Stash pot & stove Heat exchangers are corrugated fins or vanes on the base of a pot that capture heat that would otherwise be lo... Paramo Katmai shirt. Pacific Northwest Trail, 2010 This summer I’ve been testing two t-shirts for The Great Outdoors (see reviews here and ...
Twenty-five years ago I was on the Arizona Trail

3 weeks ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Journal entry. 6.00 a.m. March 29, 2000. “A calm, starry night. Woke to a myriad bird calls. A thickcrescent moon hangs over a red sandstone rock peak. To the north-west aslanting wall of coloured rock ends in a sharp cliff. The wall is split by justone steep gully. The rock is red-brown in various shades with cream bands. Asimilar wall lies to the east, this one double-tiered with a sloping band ofdesert plants between the two.
Video: the view from Ben Macdui

4 weeks ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Backpacking stove gas canisters tend to be replaced when almost empty because the heat from them is no longer enough to be of use. At least ... Paramo Katmai shirt. Pacific Northwest Trail, 2010 This summer I’ve been testing two t-shirts for The Great Outdoors (see reviews here and ... Jetboil Stash pot & stove Heat exchangers are corrugated fins or vanes on the base of a pot that capture heat that would otherwise be lo...
Camping in the snow on the Cairngorm Plateau

4 weeks ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Backpacking stove gas canisters tend to be replaced when almost empty because the heat from them is no longer enough to be of use. At least ... Paramo Katmai shirt. Pacific Northwest Trail, 2010 This summer I’ve been testing two t-shirts for The Great Outdoors (see reviews here and ... Jetboil Stash pot & stove Heat exchangers are corrugated fins or vanes on the base of a pot that capture heat that would otherwise be lo...
Camp in the snow on the Cairngorm Plateau with a little problem pitching the tent

1 month ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Sitting at my desk writing to meet deadlines I tried not tolook out of the window at the blue sky and distant shining white mountains. Beingan outdoor writer means spending as much or more time on the second rather thanthe first. Would this wonderful weather and the snow last until I couldgo out? It did. Just. The forecast suggested two more days of sunshine beforethe winds increased, clouds swept in, and temperatures rose. Time for a nighton the Cairngorm Plateau.
A little video on a recent camp

1 month ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Backpacking stove gas canisters tend to be replaced when almost empty because the heat from them is no longer enough to be of use. At least ... Paramo Katmai shirt. Pacific Northwest Trail, 2010 This summer I’ve been testing two t-shirts for The Great Outdoors (see reviews here and ... Jetboil Stash pot & stove Heat exchangers are corrugated fins or vanes on the base of a pot that capture heat that would otherwise be lo...
Geal Charn & the Water of Ailnack: A Walk In A Quiet Corner Of The Cairngorms

1 month ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

The Dorback Estate only lies some 15 kilometres from my houseyet I haven’t visited it very often. I returned after many years on a weekend whenthe forecast suggested fine weather, which meant the main Cairngorms and itsMunros were likely to be busy. I felt like going somewhere quieter. Just howquiet it turned out to be was a surprise. I saw no-one on the hills or in theglen even at a distance. It felt very remote and very lonely, not something Iexpected so close to home.
Thanks to my supporters and a note on AI (I don't use it)

1 month ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Thank you to everyone who donates to my blog. It really helps. Thanks too to everyone who has recommended my posts. I am very grateful. I’d like to point out that no AI was used in writing this or any of my posts. I’m a writer not a plagiarist. My words are my words not other people’s fed through a machine, mixed together, and regurgitated. However hard Microsoft, Google, and others keep pushing CoPilot, Gemini, Grammarly and more I won’t use them. If I can’t think what to write then I won’t write.
Still wintry on Cairn Gorm

1 month ago | christownsendoutdoors.com | Chris Townsend

Late February and the Cairngorms don’t look very wintry fromafar. Only patches of snow can be seen. But the lack of snow doesn’t mean alack of winter high up as I found on a walk over Cairn Gorm. Lower down there really isn’t much snow. Just above the carpark in Coire Cas a short strip of white stood out from the brown slopes,artificial snow made by the ugly snow machine whirring away noisily just below. Skiers queued for a drag lift to take them to the top of the slope.