Come along and say hello
I hope to meet up with some of you in the next couple of weeks at a couple of talks I’m giving, one in Fort William and one in Stockport.
The Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team Base in the Nevis Industrial Estate is the venue for my second talk on Mountain Safety, organised by the Mountainering Council of Scotland. That’s on this coming Thursday, Feb 25th at 8pm and entry is free. I gave a talk here at the end of January and we had a pleasant informal evening in the superb surroundings of the Lochaber MR Tea, base. Even if you don’t want to hear me it’s worth coming along just to get a conducted tour of the rescue base!
On March 9th I’ll be travelling down to Stockport as guest of the Rucksack Club. I’ll be doing my Wilderness World talk at the Heaton Moor Sports Club in Green Lane, Stockport SK4 2NF at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £2 for members and £4 for non-members on the door and the evening has been arranged by my good friend the photographer John Beatty. I’m looking forward to it and it’s a great chance to be able to give a talk in an area I don’t get to visit very often.
Meanwhile we’re still battling abnormally cold temperatures here in the Scottish Highlands. I think the temperature went down to something like -13 last night and it was -10 on Saturday night in Fort William. I was over there as host of the annual Nevis Partnership dinner where our guest speaker was Charles Kennedy MP, the Patron of Friends of Nevis. He gave a very funny and lively account of the current atmosphere in the House of Commons, and somehow, don’t ask me how, managed to link it all to Ben Nevis. Finding a parallel between the Ben and John Prescott is not an easy thing to do!
Our West Highland Way DVD is starting to sell well now and we’ll be turning our thoughts on what we’ll be filming this year. We have a big project planned out in the Hebrides and I’ll be doing some work on a brand new web-based television stream that’ll be starting later in the spring. It’s all exciting stuff but meanwhile, I have to go and chop some wood so we can continue to stay reasonably warm. It’s been bitterly cold but very sunny and everywhere looks absolutely beautiful. Having said that, my thoughts are beginning to turn towards spring and some warmer weather…
Photo: Temperature Inversion in Strathspey from above Allt na Criche
