Box Hill – 209.4m, apparently
There’s not many hills in London to run up, certainly no proper hills. Box Hill in the Surrey Hills is about as good as it gets. Four months in London […]
Category Archives: Wee hills
County tops between Inverness and London
Leaving my job in Inverness and re-locating to London has brought a temporary halt to my blogging efforts. However, in between lugging my worldly possessions hundreds of miles from one […]
County tops
In a madcap, two-day cross-country dash, I re-visited 12 English county tops, from Worcestershire to Suffolk, as part of research for a guidebook on these high points. These three hills were the […]
Craig Dunain
Up Craig Dunain again, yet again. There is no other hill or mountain I have climbed so frequently, at the moment three times a week. And why not? The hill is a perfect […]
Craig Dunain
Last night was my work’s Christmas bash. No expense spared in this year of recession. To Wetherspoons in Inverness we went for cheap turkey and trimmings, and even cheaper drink. […]
Bushey Heath
I’m re-visiting many of the UK’s county tops for a guidebook, due to be published some time in 2011. This is one of the least memorable: Bushey Heath, a 153m […]
Creag nan Clag
I saw this big fellow as I made my way to Creag nan Clach, a Marilyn overlooking lochs Duntelchaig and Ruthven in the northern Monadhliath. I’m without a car at the moment, so […]
Carn Glas-choire
In the north of Scotland, summer – all two days of it – seems to have merged seamlessly into winter, with the first flakes of snow sprinkling the high tops […]
Heights of Madness
My book, Heights of Madness, is officially published on Thursday (August 27), but is available to purchase now. Here’s a link – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heights-Madness-Jonny-Muir/dp/1844546640/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250600943&sr=8-1
Fyrish
Fyrish is a 453-metre hill overlooking the Cromarty Firth and topped by an 18th century monument, making it a focal point for the Easter Ross community. It is also the […]
Roineabhal
We We were coasting through South Uist when the car lost power. It just died. Flat battery we thought. But, no. Even with jump leads attached to a Range Rover, […]
Carn nan Tri-tighearnan
Carn nan Tri-tighearnan – I’m glad I’m writing that name, not saying it – is the highest point in a swathe of land bordered by the A9, the Moray Firth and […]
