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Mountains > popular all-time > sunset over the flatirons - looking out my front door in Lafayette
Mountains > popular all-time > Kearvaig Bay.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves,
combing the white hair of the waves blown back
as the wind blows the water white and black.

10pm, 17/6/88
Mountains > popular all-time > View north from Carn Eige.

2.00pm, 1/1/80
Mountains > popular all-time > Evening on Loch Maree, from Slioch.
   

8.30pm, 24/04/84

~ This was only a week after my wintry adventure on an Sgurr, but meanwhile summer had barged in without as much as a by-your-leave, stripping the hills of their spring snow and for a few days making Fort William the warmest place in Europe.

With one night of my trip left, and the weather set fair, taking the Phoxhole up on to Slioch seemed like a fitting finale. I've spent a number of nights on top of Scottish hills, but none I think blessed with such a sense of  peace and well-being  - the faint whisper of the Abhainn na Fùirneis far below and now and then the  bark of a distant fox were all that ruffled the silence.

~ On the drive back to Glasgow the next day I listened to the commentary on the Tangerine Terrors' 3-2 aggregate defeat in Rome. Dundee United? In a European Cup semi-final? Seems like a different world.
Mountains > popular all-time > Nisqually Glacier
The glacier has receded about one mile in the last century.
Mountains > popular all-time > Mount Rainier photo
Mountains > popular all-time > Mount Rainier photo
Mountains > popular all-time > Quinag from Suilven 

1am, 14/6/88

~  . . . at what passes for dead of night at this latitude in midsummer.
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Photo by: cessna · see photo in gallery

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