 Those following Steve's attempt to hike the first continuous winter round of the Munros will find a brief update at www.tgomagazine.co.uk - put simply he's on target to finish on Ben Hope, Friday, after a tremendous effort through some of the deepest snows seen in the Highlands for some time.
Check out his own site too at www.winter284.co.uk, or Rab's site at www.rab.uk.com.
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 Outstanding effort. He's had some very nice weather too for a scottish winter.
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 How can it be a Winter round if it's not finished until Spring?
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scottish winter = September to june :-)
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I was in the Feshie hills yesterday.. Try telling me it's spring!!!!
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 It was snowing in Aviemore and on Drumochter yesterday. The heaviest snow this winter has been this month.
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 I was gonna say, the weather was okay at the start but as its gone on he's had it much worse! And he'll have much less flab to keep him warm, bet he's skinny as a rake by now!
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Chris, were you on the hills yesterday around Aviemore or just passing through?
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I've had snow in June on the Fannichs and in October in Fisherfield. I wouldn't call either of them winter though.
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 Colin's got a point - Martin Moran had the same dilemma on his winter round - is winter the calendar season or is it winter weather?
Martin made his complete round within the season but had a lot of snowless hills.
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Muzza, I was on my way to Perth for an MCoS meeting.
Yesterday I was with Steve Perry on Ben Hope. The weather was certainly wintry with driving snow above 600 metres and a wind gusting to 50mph or more. Taking photos was difficult and all other celebrations had to to wait until we were back down.
Jamie, Steve is as skinny as a rake! But looking very fit.
Steve decided in advance to walk from December 1 to March 31 and he has done that. The first ever continuous winter round is a great achievement.
There was a cameraman there for Grampian and Yorkshire TV and something might appear in local news programmes over the next few days.
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Whew! Dissent over the definition of winter! For the record Steve decided on the dates of his challenge after reading Martin Moran's book, in which Martin pointed out that the Dec 1 to March 31 winter round was then yet to be done.
As Chris states, Saturday's weather was very definitely winter - not just wintry, but yer actual winter - and very appropriate for the walk's theme. Wrecked my camera using it in the hard wind and snow we had on the summit...
Presumeably anyone who thinks Steve's achievement is anything less than remarkable will be out to prove it on the hills next winter?
Thought not!
From:
John Manning (using Cameron's machine while a nice IT chap gets the spindrift out of the back of mine!)
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Whew! Dissent over the definition of winter! For the record Steve decided on the dates of his challenge after reading Martin Moran's book, in which Martin pointed out that the Dec 1 to March 31 winter round was then yet to be done.
As Chris states, Saturday's weather was very definitely winter - not just wintry, but yer actual winter - and very appropriate for the walk's theme. Wrecked my camera using it in the hard wind and snow we had on the summit...
Presumeably anyone who thinks Steve's achievement is anything less than remarkable will be out to prove it on the hills next winter?
Thought not!
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well said Cameron. The bitchy little comments were bang out of order. Steve has done something most of us wish we were capable (physically and mentally)of doing.. Well done Steve..
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Sorry folks,
The comment attributed to Cameron was from myself - had to use his machine as mine was off-line briefly this morning and the "edit" button doesn't seem to have worked when I tried to add the fact that that was moi talkin'!
Sorry for the confusion...
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Well Done for completing the task Steve!
Brilliant!
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I think I'm me but there again I might be John Manning. For the record, the last six weeks of this winter have been harder than any winter weather I can remember in the past ten years in the Highlands. Steve certainly managed to get some fairly benign weather earlier on, but even that can be pretty tough in the short daylight hours of winter. Ask Martin Moran, who had a fairly good winter, weather-wise, in which to make his own successful round of the Munros. What Steve has endured in the past few weeks has been truly amazing. I lay in my warm bed night after night listening to the wind and the snow, wondering how Steve was coping in his tiny tent.
Six months ago I wrote somewhere that I didn't think Steve would complete what he had set out to do - I thought it was impossible. The man has proved me wrong. Well done Steve, we're proud of you!
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 Thanks for that Cameron, the last month was certainly very difficult and I'm glad I never got that in December. I think it was the fitness I'd attained over the previous 3 months that helped pull me through in the end. The hardest night I had was finding myself stuck in a round with deputy Manning at the Crask Inn, where we celebrated on March 31st. That fella has stamina. Cheers to TGO for all the help especially JM who helped getting the whole thing off the ground in the first place and CT for some great advice on gear. Keep up the good work folks and I'll see you on the chalenge in May.
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Well found mellowmark...
I love the bit that reads "…Lorraine McCall, who completed a summer Munro circuit by sea-kayak last summer …"
For the record, Lorraine only kayaked the wet bits. She walked those sections above sealevel.
Cheers, too, Steve!
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