Is RGU CompSoc a Computer Society or a Hillwalking Club? That’s a question we ask ourselves every time we venture into the wilds of Scotland for a bit of adventure. This time we headed about 60km west of Aberdeen to Loch Muick, just a few miles south west of Ballater. As you can see it was quite an overcast and damp day but everybody really had a great time. In all about twenty students and academics joined in the fun, some took the easy option of just quickly going around the track that located just meters from the loch itself. The other dozen as you can see from this video decided to take a slightly more adventurous up into the cloud covered hills.
I kept on thinking that our journey through the misty and cloud covered hills around the loch were a bit like the journey of the “Fellowship of the Ring” trying to cross the misty mountains. In one scene from our adventures you can probably think of a very similar scene from the Fellowship of the Ring where the Hobbits, Humans,Dwarf, Elf & Wizard make their way in single file across the ridge of a mountain shortly after commencing their quest from the elven outpost of Rivendell. In our case we are in single file, but one of the main differences is that you can just barely see us given the cloud cover. As we all know the depiction of Middle-Earth was recorded in New Zealand, given its wondrous landscapes, I do wonder however that it could also have been shot in Scotland.
One of the students on the hillwalking adventure tracked our route via gps, you can see the route below, as you can see we travelled 17.2km in a time of 5h 10mins.
For some reason, I could not see the map, and the link gave me a blank screen.
. . . plus, I was disappointed that not one person jumped in a puddle, despite being dressed for it. Why, they even altered their course to avoid them!
Have views the map in both Firefox and IE without any problems. I guess people just don’t like getting wet. Did walk through a good few puddles myself, avoided a few of the larger ones.
Interesting . . . it shows up now. Must have been one of them there Internet glitches.
As for “don’t like getting wet”, from many of the pictures, and from the video, it looked as if that ship had long sailed. But I get it . . . as people get older they forget the joys of youth. I kid, of course . . . they don’t forget; they just get too cool for them.
Again, nice photos and video.
Reminds me some nice walks we did two years ago ! May you continue this way for all the future students who will discover the wonders of Scotland
This was our first adventure when the weather wasn’t on our side, we had a really good day around the same time last year weather-wise, the following day winter set in.