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Hill walk routes to climb in SW Scotland
- also coastal paths and National Scenic Areas with maps, pictures and
other useful information based on extensive local knowledge
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Eschoncan, Bennan, Benyellary
- returning by the Tourist Route from Merrick
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Coming down off the Merrick
towards the Nieve of the Spit with Benyellary beyond.
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| 18 This is the view from the
Merrick back down over the Nieve of the Spit to Benyellary as we start on
our journey back to the car at Glen Trool. You can see what a narrow saddle
the Nieve is. It has a bay of hills around it on either side so that the
wind is concentrated quite ferociously over the saddle - saddles are always
the worst places for wind on a hill. You lean into the wind when it is gusting
then stagger in the direction it is coming from when it suddenly drops between
gusts. It is not easy to hold a camera steady in such conditions and many
of these pictures have had to be straightened up because the horizon was
far from horizontal in them. I was also using a much faster shutter speed
that I would normally use in a landscape shot to avoid "camera shake"! |
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