Sorry about yesterday, I was just so busy, what with going to the cinema to watch "The National Treasure: The Book of Secrets" in the afternoon, and genrally I have a hell of a lot of work to do. Things aren't going to get easier either, over the next month or two. Ah well, took some time out this morning to walk up "Meikle Conval" near Dufftown. Nice walk!
Half-way up, looking back towards Dufftown, generally!
Looking South-East, about two thirds up!
Looking from the top, towards "Little Conval" (another hill fort) to the North!
The magnificent site that is Ben Rinnes. Must be pretty cold up there! Some day soon I'll tackle that one. Still a bit out of my league for now though!
Today we attempted to walk up a hill called Little Conval, near Dufftown. It shouldn't have been too difficult, after all, we've already climbed it's bigger brother Meikle Conval, a few weeks back. However, there were two major obstacles; finding the path up (didn't seem to be one), and the weather. When we eventually made it up out of the tree-line, and had found some semblance of a path, the weather closed in, and about three quarters of the way up, in a mixture of hail, sleet and driving rain, I finally conceded defeat, and so we trudged disappointingly back down.
That's the first time I've been defeated by a hill. The photo above shows the hill, once we had plodded back down. The weather had improved a bit by that time, but it still wasn't that good. Anyway, I'll be back as Arnie says, and next time I will be victorious! This is not over, mark my words!
