Photie test

[Peter Macfarlane]

[Peter Macfarlane]

Easy.

[Jason Brinkman]

Wow! Scotland?

[Roger Caffin]

Cross Fell?

[Peter Macfarlane]

It is Scotland aye, the shot is taken from the summit of Carn Dearg looking West. The cloud inversion is over Rannoch Moor and the hills in the distance are the Black Mount and the pointed one to the right of centre is Buachaille Etive Mor.
It's about 0600hrs and well below 0degC, a fantastic morning :o)

[Rog Tallbloke]

Here's another view of Buchaille Etive Mor and the heads of Glens Etive and Coe taken from Sron na Creise.

Roger: I wish that was the view into the Lake District from Cross Fell! Only 50 miles from my home rather than 400!

[Rod Lawlor]

Is that snow year round or seasonal?

[Peter Macfarlane]

It's seasonal. Some years we have patches on Ben Nevis high in the gullies and here and there in the Cairngorms but by August the snow is usually all gone.
It can still snow any day of the year on the high tops though, here's us trail running on Ben Nevis last June.

[Rog Tallbloke]

Pete: Didn't the Ben have a more or less permanent 'glacier' on the top until the late '70s?

I did the three peaks (highest tops in England Wales and Scotland) one weekend in 1978 in mid may and was trail breaking through thigh deep snow all the way up Ben Nevis. This and the slow minibus we were using put paid to our 24 Hour hopes, we finished in around 30.

Cream crackered afterwards I was. :o)

Rod: I took that shot of the Buachaille in early Feb 2005

[Martin Rye]

Scotland offers so much to those who have yet to discover it. I thought I would add to the contrubution from Pete and Rog.

[Sean Walashek]

is it?

[Peter Macfarlane]

No, it's just one of the better built ones. There's actually many nicely built summit cairns in Scotland, and a lot of shapeless pile of stones to offset it!

Here's another shot of the one above.

[Peter Atkinson]

Peter

what ace photos; the inversion is really lovely.

Here's one I took on Skye last week (I managed to get my 14 year old son – who is a genius but a total slacker – up Blahbeinn.

And this is one of the hills around Loch Mullardoch )I forget which now, put could answer if required), taken last April.

[Peter Macfarlane]

Magic shots there.
I won a watch again last night on Ben Lomond.

[Roger Caffin]

Sigh, drool, drool, sigh.

[Peter Atkinson]

Blooming heck, well done on the watch – what was the event you won it in?

[Peter Macfarlane]

Just the "Beating the weather competition", it's a Glasgowism for beating the odds :o)

Here's another couple from yesterday.

A Brocken Spectre over Loch Lomond.

Big Agnes Seedhouse with the Southern Highlands behind.

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