The Great Outdoors

Highland summer

SOFAR, this summer has seen few periods of prolonged sunny weather in the Highlands. Mostly it’s been cloudy and very windy. There have been sunny spells, though, and I did seize one for a couple of wild camps and a wander in the Cairngorms without the risk of being blown over whilst navigating in the mist.

On a fine warm evening I crossed boggy Strath Nethy and climbed onto the flat mountainside below Bynack More, where I camped. Bynack

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