Heading for the hills

We met up with Morag, Jenny and Ria on Saturday for an uphill walk. We are planning to do Ben Rinnes, which is the highest point in the local area, but need a bit of practice at lower level first. I, for one, am not as fit as I'd like to be. I'd rather not be huffing and puffing my way up Ben Rinnes.

Ben Aigan was our destination but we encountered a diversion and ended up doing a slightly different top. The weather was not great, big change from the day before, and this affected our view from the top. Mostly we saw trees.

I did take photos but not many, not ideal weather for it. We only had seven dogs with us this time, unlike our Cullen Bin walk. The hill is popular with mountain bikers and we saw a few but otherwise had the place to ourselves.

Despite the weather, it was a good walk and a much needed work out for the legs.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that we ended up at a tearoom. Cake?! As if.

Jana had a bit of excitement when a grouse was flushed at the top

There was lots of talking

Arran was very proud of his stick

A bit of a view at the top

Heading back to the car

Morag's new pup, Gigha. She's too small to join us on walks just now but she enjoyed checking out the pine cones and twigs in the car park

Ria's hot chocolate.......with The Works!

Ok, so we did have cake, but it surely couldn't be bad for us......it had raw carrot with it!