Joanna Chitty - 171898

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Date : 03/06/2012

Duration : 8+ hours

Style : Solo

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Clear - sunny - good visibility

Wind : Gentle Breeze

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Nights Camping : 0

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Description

Circuit of Dun Caan, Hallaig and The Fearns on the Isle of Raasay, from Glen lodge. I've done this walk, or at least sections of it twice - once as a student on a field trip in April 1991, and again solo on this day. I'm including it as a quality day because as a hill walk, it is absolutly one of my favourites. My first visit played a big part in kindling my interest in Scottish hills, and revisiting it it was not hard to see why. As a walk it has a great deal going for it. It winds in the early section, revealing the landscape bit by bit, it crosses a variety of terrain, involves route finding across unmarked moor (including a reasonably careful decision on where to descend a convex slope between cliffs), a tonne of landscape history and a lot of visual interest, both large and small scale. I'd had it somewhere in mind to return and do this walk for 21years, doing so brought together a lot of memory of the landscape of Skye and Raasay.

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