As always, I feel I should have done more hillwalking, but this time I really do not have any good excuse other than that I often cannot be bothered driving to get to hills. Also, most of my hillwalking is on hills which I have been up before. However, I did have two trips which let me bag a reasonable number of new Grahams and some lower Marilyns, with a couple of weeks in the Borders and Galloway in the spring, and a week in Cowal in the autumn (where I was accompanied up one hill by a local dog).
Some of my best hill days of the year were on Skye in early May - for example, on the southern part of the Cuillin ridge, in glorious sunshine, with Rum wrapped in mist, and in Torridon in September, when I had perfect weather for a traverse of Liathach. Another memory is of trudging up Garbh Bheinn in Ardgour in muggy, cloudy, midgy conditions, to find the top in sunshine and surrounded by a sea of cloud.
