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This was a small, easy morning
out over a familiar hill nearby. Actually, Auchineden Hill is the summit which
lies beside the significantly better known "Whangie". No photos were taken, but
the photo I do have is from 1997, one of the first times I went up.
We parked the car by the Queens View where there seems to be more
burned out cars than there are parked. We walked up the side of the hill beside
the old felled forest on the
clearly defined path and then up beside the forest onto the high moor land.
There weren't many views, it was too hazy yet I'm sure there weren't any clouds
either, th air seemed to be one great murk. It was humid too, under this great
haze and I should have brought water. We got to the trig point and left soon
after - there certainly wasn't much to see. Yet I've got a photo from many years
back here and conditions were pretty similar.
We left the top and walked down to the Whangie, a well known opening of rock,
it's really quite impressive. Somewhere, it was thought up that the devil
created it by swishing his tail at the hill while flying past... A load of
bollocks really - who makes this stuff up? Still, It was 1pm by this point and
after a quick walk back around the NW side of the hill, we were back to the car and home shortly
after.
Short walk. :-)
Written: 2008-05-15
Proofed: 2008-08-15
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