Errogie
28-Apr-07, 20:23
At ten to nine this morning I was on a mountain top by the name of Carn an Fhidleir about 13 miles west of Braemar on the Perthshire Inverness-shire border. Great, clear weather after an overnight frost on the tent in Glen Geldie, so I was looking around trying to identify the surrounding landmark mountains. from Beinne Vorlich and Cruachan by Bridge of Orchy to Schiehallion by Loch Rannoch and of course Lochnagar and the northern Cairngorms.
Swung round from the west to the north again and there was the well known whale back of Ben Wyvis but then just to the east a little there were two other more distant pimples and because I see them regularly from above Inverness one was one of the Ben Griams towards Kinbrace and the other just had to be good old familiar Morven on the other side of the Moray Firth.
I reckon the distance as the crow flies was probably around 75 miles which is certainly the furthest I've been able to pick out the old familiar slag heap shape of home but the visibility is particularly good in the north and west at the moment in this run of exceptional weather. Morven is a great landmark because it stands so clearly on its own and I wonder if local fishing boats also use it as a reference and a location guide. It sits there on the other side of the Moray Firth more prominently than many much larger mountains in the Highlands and I suspect that its part of the cominng home to Caithness experience for many of us.
Does Morven do it for you is it the Ord or some other fearure, what is that indefineable landmark or view that says, yes we're on the home straight now or we've reached the north lands again?
Swung round from the west to the north again and there was the well known whale back of Ben Wyvis but then just to the east a little there were two other more distant pimples and because I see them regularly from above Inverness one was one of the Ben Griams towards Kinbrace and the other just had to be good old familiar Morven on the other side of the Moray Firth.
I reckon the distance as the crow flies was probably around 75 miles which is certainly the furthest I've been able to pick out the old familiar slag heap shape of home but the visibility is particularly good in the north and west at the moment in this run of exceptional weather. Morven is a great landmark because it stands so clearly on its own and I wonder if local fishing boats also use it as a reference and a location guide. It sits there on the other side of the Moray Firth more prominently than many much larger mountains in the Highlands and I suspect that its part of the cominng home to Caithness experience for many of us.
Does Morven do it for you is it the Ord or some other fearure, what is that indefineable landmark or view that says, yes we're on the home straight now or we've reached the north lands again?