What’s a Corbett? you might ask. It’s a Scottish hill of at least 2500 feet and less than 3000 feet high (the 3000-footers are called Munros). Don’t ask me why they have funny names like that… (if you are interested, there’s loads of information in places like Wikipedia). Up to now, my biggest climb has been a wee hill called Ben A’an, a mere pimple on the landscape at 1115′.
Now that my knee’s better and I can walk further, @HeatherAlex decided to take me up a Properly Grown-Up Hill and picked Ben Vrackie:
We had a lovely sunny day and the path was very good, so it was quite easy going really:
I am much quicker than my people friends (@CatCripps and Ally were with us, so it was a very friendly sort of a day), so I did spend quite a lot of time sitting and waiting for them as we climbed the hill:
I also met lots of anipals on the way up (and down). Some of them played with me as well. Here’s “Red” (that was my name for him, as I didn’t catch his proper name)…
Our chase game was a bit unfair, as Red could run through the heather while I had to bounce in and out just to see where I was going. Judging by the chuckles from my people, I think they thought it was funny, but it made it hard to catch Red. Once on the path though, there was no escape for him!
Still, it couldn’t all be about games and chase, cos we had a hill to climb, so I set off again:
Of course, being quite quick, I had lots of time to sniff around and play spot-the-wildlife…
But even with all my explorations, I was still ahead of the people:
But eventually, we did make it to the top and I “bagged” another trig point, my highest one yet:
We didn’t take so many pictures going down, but of course I was ahead most of the time:
And the end of the day, there’s nothing better than a friendly pub (The Moulin Inn), with a friendly barman who is very generous:
What a great day! I can’t wait for my next big hill – which might even be a Munro 🙂 …
TheTwiglet 
What a grt day out twiglet hope mum takes me one day
That was a fab Corbett walk!! And a new trig point to stand on too. Your pictures are really lovely, you should try making some of them clicky ones so that we can click and see them bigger 🙂
Aha, that’s what having a link does! I have made some of them clicky, but the pictures aren’t any bigger because they were re-sized on the computer to make them take up less room 😦 Will try to leave the best ones bigger next time!
Yes it’s a pain because you do have to decide whether to use slow or fast pics.. big pics can take ages but it’s nice to be able to see a big version. WP has loads of room, I usually upload big pics which is why it takes mum hours to do my bloggy, and I still has got some gigglebytes left.
Great walkin my pal. I went up a big hill in the Lake District and rilly enjoyed it. I ope I can do it again some time. Woof.