Auchineden Hill - 357m
Monday 7th July 2008
Monday 7th July 2008
Weather/Conditions: A nice evening - the sun was low in the sky shining across. Warm mainly with a bit of wind and it rained very briefly but only a little and very lightly.
Accompanying: Dad some way
I ended up at quite a height fairly quickly however it was a long way over some boggy ground to reach the summit trig point and I had the compulsion to reach that point whether the views were better or not. (they probably weren't much better) I had enough time, so I continued onwards over bog and grass to reach it. I ran at bits but wonder what people get out of fell-running. I personally find it torturing.
I was soon enough at the top and so what else to do than to turn around and go back the way I came? There were some rain showers heading towards but they turned out to be very brief and very light, if not rather refreshing and I quickly made my way back over bog to reach dad again who was nearer the car park. In the process I was faced with some wet jeans and some bog-hopping. I got a bit wet but one day I'm going to discover the joys of trousers that aren't jeans.
I got back within ten minutes and dad and I walked back to the car and from there, went home. This wasn't any kind of major hill, maybe more a heap of bog if you ask me but on such a nice night it was too good to resist getting out and only briefly if nothing else. There's a bit of a lack of new and larger mountains as-of-recently but I'll be on Arran soon, so that'll be a whole new experience.
Written: 2008-07-11