John Muir Trust Journal 2010 - reviewed by Caroline Standring
"It was a long wet slog and, on the summit ridge, a wet, battered crawl thanks to the wind and stinging, ferocious rain . . . what was I doing wasting my time climbing some random hill, miles from anywhere, in appalling weather?"
There may be many of you who have asked yourself this same question. But how many of you also have a favourite OS map, have slept in freezing car parks to be closer to the hill or driven with your head sticking out of the window because the windscreen has frozen over in the remote parts of Scotland? Someone who has done all these things and more is Craig Weldon, with this book providing an entertaining account of his life told through various adventures in the hills.
Well written and full of humour, the book is separated into different periods in the author's life from university days to his mid-thirties, with each chapter split into one to two pages per walk. Although a book to be enjoyed by anyone, it is probably best appreciated by those who share the author's love of hill walking, particularly those who understand the feeling of escape that comes from leaving it all behind - if only for a weekend `fix'.
