scotlands fantastic countryside

Saturday the 14 th of April the weather forecast looks good and there’s enough snow left to do a bit of ski touring ,but what’s left of the Scottish snow is all high up it’s a huge ascent with skis on your back before you can get your skins on skis on all of the mountains now! Bob was hatching the plan his free time was limited this week and we had no absolute set plan for where we would ski ! this Saturday was our day for it possibly our last of the Scottish hills this season,   with that in mind I planned to get all packed up with lunch and all my equipment ready to load into bobs car in the morning, Once that was done ne and Sheila got a train and went out for a walk round Edinburgh’s bars we had dinner in indigo yard which was nice ,And ticked of 3 bars on my Edinburgh pub walk routes in my Camra guide book, I also got the 2 Edinburgh brewdog bars to put a stamp in my brewdog passport book 4 stamps now in that book and two walks completed in the Edinburgh pub walks book ( I’

      Gary had got us tickets for a meet the brewers night at linlithgow cricket club months ago for me and him and ali had got himself one to join us , which is great the only down side was it was my last weekend at home before going back to work and bob was only available on the Sunday for skiing , That was the morning after the meet the brewers night ! I couldn't miss this opportunity to get out in the hills but also was wanting to have a good night out with gary and Ali at the meet the brewers so I done both , the secret was to make sure I had everything packed and ready to go for bob picking me up at 06:30 in the morning , which I done I even laid out my breakfast and coffee travel mug for the car           Gary knew one of the brewers for this new brewing company from grangemouth called hybrid brewers ,his name is rab lee and he is an interesting bloke we all had lots to talk about the beer samples were excellent the venue was full and the talk was good , It finished aroun

It took a long time to source all the right gear for getting into the hills of scotland in winter on skis and now i was excited to be getting these new skies on and doing some backcountry skiing in scotland with my mate bob , my ski skins were delayed in the post probably because all the delivery companies were behind schedule due to scotland getting the best snow we have had in 30 years so its a bit ironic that my ski skins were delayed by snow ! so the setting off was delayed by a day , no problem though it was a Sunday and I had bought a pub walk book from CAMRA for the Edinburgh area so me and sheila got the train through to Edinburgh and started what turned out to be an excellent pub walk around an area of Edinburgh I wouldn't normally visit , we went up over carlton hill ( part of this pub walk route ) after a stop at jeromes bar we then we visited a few real ale bars and caught an excellent live blues gig ,then we had diner in the Conan Doyle before the train home A good nig