This Geal-charn (white hill) is probably the least exciting of several Munros by that name, but easy access makes it a good quick hit from the A9, a leg stretch in passing if you're en route somewhere with only a few hours to fill. After a fairly bleak start amid Drumochter's traffic noise and pylons, it's an easy ascent. Once on top the road can't be seen or heard, and the view over Loch Ericht to the remote Ben Alder massif makes it feel like a proper hill day after all.
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Ordnance Survey is inviting emergency service organisations around Great Britain to input local and colloquial nicknames to a new database called the Vernacular Names Tool, as an aid to getting responders to the right location even if...
Podcast Mountain Air - 7. Precarious Freedom and the Cape Wrath Trail, with David Lintern