Given that these people can reasonably be seen as Israel's agents in Britain, surely all members should be charged with both treason and assistance to genocide.

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Always interesting to catch up with what Mountaineering Scotland have been up to. Read their annual report here. www.mountaineering.scot/about-us/bus...

So thrilled and moved to receive this for my birthday. It's a lovely piece of art in its own right, but especially important to me because I've known Corrour Bothy for almost 60 years and been privileged to help look after it for almost 20. #CorrourBothy #Cairngorms

Police saved the UK from 890 retired and disabled terrorists and a mannequin this weekend

To think this was mostly bare hillside when I was a kid - and even until very recently. Top marks to the National Trust @n-t-s.bsky.social and dedicated staff at Mar Lodge Estate.

So, the American Dream turns out to be the American Nightmare.

How can you not sing our governments praises? Upholders of decency! Protecting us against dangerous terrorists like these. Probably the most moral government in the world.

Good grief, that was a struggle. Didn't even know it was a word. Wordle 1,516 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Lucky for my liberty that life isn't all binary choices. Because, given the choice of supporting 'my' government or Palestine Action, there is no way I would or could support my* government. (*Which, of course I now recognise as a foreign occupying power.)

@cairngormwanderer.bsky.social Just been reading your old blog post about the Smith-Winram Bivouac, and its history. Should anyone be interested, the Jock Nimlin article referred to here (and entitled 'Mountain Howffs') can be accessed via: simrich.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/SMCJ/Number%...

How many people does it take to clean a bothy toilet in the middle of the #Cairngorms? More than you'd think! cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/a...

This country needs a serious attitude change. This weekend we removed 2 sleeping bags, 1 cheap tent and assorted smaller rubbish from a bothy in the #CairngormsNationalPark, and I picked up further litter on the way out. But it's not just the countryside: open your eyes to what's in towns!

Why are we so rubbish? Good question and great article by @countrysideben.bsky.social. Litter really gets me down, including on my local path (despite regular voluntary efforts). I can only pick up any glass to stop it getting broken and damaging paws & bike tyres. Some people just don’t see it.

Great weekend at Corrour Bothy in the #Cairngorms, preparing the toilet storage area for waste removal and doing maintenance work on the toilet. Thanks to a great crew of volunteers for all their hard work.

Note to self: when removing a grapefruit-sized wasp nest from the tight confines of a bothy toilet, don't assume that because it looks damaged there are no wasps there. ... There were.😬 ... And quite upset as it turned out.

Well this is the third time I've sent "STOP SMS" to @vodaphone123.bsky.social over a number of months. Will this time stop them sending text messages tome? I'm not holding my breath. Bloody #spam.

Seems it's six years since I was last at the Barns of Bynack in the #Cairngorms. Always worth another trip though @frankhennessy.bsky.social

No flashes of inspiration, but a nicely pleasing steady progression. Wordle 1,492 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A very good point, with not enough illustrations. I've often looked in amazement at prehistoric cave and bone art etc and marvelled at how well those guys actually SAW the animals they depicted.

It was one of those days that was an absolute delight from start to finish. The landscape, the flowers, the peregrine encounter and even a mountain rescue fly-past... A cracking day in the Cairngorms! cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/b...

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Some starry saxifrage. Not a great pic, but a rather too sensational situation which required concentration not to fall off, so please excuse. High on the side of Coire Etchachan in the #Cairngorms on Saturday.

Nice tribute to the great Clifton Chenier. I first heard of him in the late '70s, when cajun and zydeco were virtually unknown in Britain, and he made me an instant convert. I reckon in pre-CD and internet days I could have had one of the best cajun collections in Scotland.

Don't think I've ever got all the letters right but all the places wrong. Wordle 1,474 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I've recently become involved with this wee charity (better late than never) & am struck by how much they do with so little. If you've ever walked in Arran, then you've walked on a path they have funded/maintained. It costs just a tenner to become a member: www.arran-access-trust.org.uk/membership/

I do support Palestine Action. And the only people who need to be jailed for supporting terrorism are members of this morally corrupt UK government with their support of genocidal Israel.

A skyline walk has a particular satisfaction. Started up Ben Starav to see if I still could and just kept going, to go over Glas Bheinn Mhor and (out of sight to the left) Stob Coir' an Albannaich. A magical day, but, oh my, have my legs paid the price!

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FFS. Lammy would have called up Hitler in his bunker and offered condolences - while also training the SS and supplying parts for the V2s.

Governments always seem to prioritise the benefit of landowners and big business rather than the people who voted for them. God knows national parks aren't perfect, but they're better than the free-for-all that blights the outdoors elsewhere. Actual APRS report here - aprs.scot/news/how-mis...

The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it. Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants. Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.

Since independent efforts to get humanitarian aid to Gaza have been halted by Israeli piracy, what's to stop Britain sending an armed aircraft carrier full of aid through international waters and then Palestinian territorial waters to reach Gaza? Oh yes. The British/Israeli Government.

What an utter disgrace BBC News is. Madleen hi-jacking and kidnapping of peace activists by Israeli criminals gets just a brief mention as it being 'intercepted' and crew being 'deported'. They were flying under a UK flag, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. Was this report written by Israel itself?

After a damp Saturday the weekend was looking a washout - until I decided to go home over Sgor Dubh instead of round it. #Cairngorms #Bothies cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/a...

Israel is breaking international law to kidnap females. THE WORLD STANDS BY 🌍 #fuckisrael

🔴BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the “trust” of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party, reports @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

A very belated review of a superb guide to the #Cairngorms. Is the review biased? Of course it is - I wrote a couple of wee bits myself - but it's still the best guidebook I've read. cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/t...

Excellent new book on the outdoors. www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/05/book...

Ah what a satisfying start to the day. Pure lexicographal genius of course; luck had nothing to do with it. 😉 Wordle 1,437 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ah, the Cairngorms. You don't even need to be high up to have a great wander. Walked between Loch Malachie and Loch Gartan in last week's sunny weather, enjoying the cool shade of the trees.

It's taken me shamefully long to get round to reading this absolute gem. Between a Rock & a Hard Place, by Davy Gunn, mountaineer and rescuer. What a life! A fault? Far too short - could have been twice as long. I just wanted to keep reading his stories.

Another great weekend in the Cairngorms with some unorthodox choices of route and a 'backstage' view of some favourite hills. cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...

Just because. This is one of the iconic views of the Cairngorms and I can seldom pass without taking another photo. Coire Sputan Dearg from just above the Luibeg Ford.

Upland: A Journey through Time and the Hills by Ian Crofton - "a book to savour" writes Allan Massie in @scotsman.com "...one of its peculiar pleasures is that the author derives as much enjoyment from small, friendly hills as he does from the grander mountains" www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

For the avoidance of doubt the 'right to roam' in Scotland DOES NOT include a right to light fires or use disposable BBQs in the outdoors *at times of high fire risk* & you need to be extremely careful if you need to use a camping stove news.stv.tv/west-central...

Well. That was a struggle. Wordle 1,417 6/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Puzzled by a recent flurry of new followers from USA. My account is overwhelmingly about the Cairngorms and occasionally some music. I try - and almost succeed - to keep the current politics of hate out of it. What do all these Americans want?

Just after I posted about finding an old illicit whisky still in the #Cairngorms, this excellent article gives much more info about illicit distilling.

Disappearing archaeology. Both pics show cross section of hole dug in Mesolithic & then filled in & buried under peat. Excavated some years ago, it is being eroded by the river & will soon be gone. First pic several days ago, second two years ago. @graemewarren.bsky.social @n-t-s.bsky.social