Mount Brandon

Myself and Rob hiked up the Pilgrim Trail to the peak of Mount Brandon (not to be confused with Brandon Peak, which is a mountain beside it!)

There's a small grotto near the beginning of the trail ... I guess part of the reason of how the trail got it's name.

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The route we took:



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Like Carauntoohil, there was a massive iron cross at the top of Brandon also.

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From brandon-5-6-2009

From brandon-5-6-2009

Vancouver, Whistler and British Colombia

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We went on a holiday to visit our two friends from college who had moved to Vancouver. Quite a nice city. It near every kind of outdoors activity you could imagine. I loved it. Myself an Nici did a whole load of hiking that week. We also visited Whistler where the next Winter Olympics will be held. Normally when you think of Whistler you think of Skiing, but we were there at the wrong end of the calendar, just before the winter. Lehman Brothers went bankrupt that week, which was a bit weird and I thought I was jobless! Although being on holidays was probably the best at the time :-)

From Holiday in Vancouver 12-21.10.2008

From Holiday in Vancouver 12-21.10.2008

From Holiday in Vancouver 12-21.10.2008

I took a picture of these (Mapel??) Trees - Look how red they got in Autumn - I assume this is something you get in a country with real seasons :-)

From Holiday in Vancouver 12-21.10.2008

From Holiday in Vancouver 12-21.10.2008

From Holiday in Vancouver 12-21.10.2008

Ben Nevis

We couldn't have picked a worse day to climb Ben Nevis. Wet, windy and generally miserable. The top was fogged over, but, as I was told, this is nothing unusual even for a good day in Scotland. The mountain was 1300ish meters high. Quite a lot of people were training for the mountain race the next week ... lunatics ... I couldn't imagine running up the thing ... at least not in this state of fitness :-)


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From ben-nevis-9-8-2008

From ben-nevis-9-8-2008

From ben-nevis-9-8-2008

Glaty Mor and Galty Beag

Myself, Rob and John climbed Galty Mor and Galty Beag. Very, very nice and I hadn't really heard of it before Rob suggested it. Quite a taxing climb at the start but once off the lower ground we were flying it. Really, really nice views along the way - much nicer than the like of Carauntoohil, although the mountains themselves were less moonscapy. Here's the route we took:


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