Month: Aug 2026
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Euro Summer 2026: Aurlandsdalen
Dates: 24th-26th August 2026 Start: Finse Station End: Vassbygdi Distance Travelled: 53.26 km Number of Times I said “Wow”: 1,241 (definitely didn’t make that up) Perhaps I should’ve just spent my entire trip touring round Scotland. Lovely, peaceful country (tourist-heavy Edinburgh notwithstanding), challenging mountain climbs, what’s not to like? Well,…
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Euro Summer 2026: Cairngorms
Date: 21st August 2026 Start: Cairngorm Mountain Resort End: Cairngorm Mountain Resort Distance Travelled: 18.68 km Song Currently Stuck in Head: Welcome to the Internet by Bo Burnham Scottish Summit Views: 0 from 5 Leaving Corrour was honestly one of the hardest things I’ve had to do for a while.…
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Euro Summer 2026: Corrour Munros
Date: 18th August 2026 Start: Corrour Station End: Corrour Station Distance Travelled: 22.54 km Song Currently Stuck in Head: Silk by Wolf Alice Bog Holes Fallen Into: miraculously only the one Now, where were we? Oh yeah, Fort William station. Having just come back from climbing Ben Nevis, I was…
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Euro Summer 2026: Ben Nevis Summit
Date: 17th August 2026 Start: Glen Nevis Youth Hostel End: Glen Nevis Youth Hostel Distance Travelled: 15.17km Song Currently Stuck in Head: Silk by Wolf Alice Righto, Wales is too hot. Time to go somewhere with a more reasonable temperature that still has plenty of mountains to climb. Well, not…
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Euro Summer 2026: Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa
Date: 12th August 2026 Start: Pen-y-Pass End: Pont Bethania Distance Travelled: 13.57km Song Currently Stuck in Head: nothing, was locked in for the entire duration of the hike Apart from a few weekends away and the couple 1.5 week trips I’ve taken to the Grampians and Tassie, the last big…
Wow, Jono. What a great finale to your 6-week trip to the Northern Hemisphere, with such an interesting description, peppered…