Mountains – KDD & Co

behind the scenes . . .

A couple of days ago, we announced the Seven Skeins Club – a venture we’ve been planning for many months, and which we hope will allow everyone who wants to to sample our lovely new Scottish wool. (If you are interested, you can read more about what the club involves here.) People have been writing…

Buachaille – coming soon!

We are getting very excited here, as we are anticipating a large woolly delivery, and it will soon be time to announce the launch of our new yarn. I thought it was time to tell you a little more about it. (my favourite sheep, from Colours of Shetland) I am a great advocate for using…

schiehallion

On Saturday, we climbed Schiehallion – another munro. Rising out of the surrounding landscape like a great, squat cone, Schiehallion resembles a child’s drawing – it looks exactly like what a mountain should look like. Easily accessible from the shores of Loch Tay, it is extremely popular with walkers, whose pounding feet, over the past…

good tired

By: Kate Davies Designs April 24, 2011April 24, 2011

Bruce, munros, Scotland, walkingBeinn Ghlas, Loch Tay, Mountains, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, walking138 Comments

I thought I’d attempt a Munro this weekend. This was a serious proposition: a Munro is a mountain over 3,000 feet; about three times as high as any hill I’ve climbed since my stroke. After reflecting for some time on the ‘easiest’ Munro I could think of, I decided to try to climb Beinn Ghlas.…

into the cuillin

By: Kate Davies Designs July 5, 2009July 6, 2009

Scotland, walkingblack cuillin, climbing, cuillin, hills, Mountains, Scotland, scrambling, Skye, walking23 Comments

I’ve had some rather difficult things to deal with this week. I needed to clear my head. And I can think of no better head-clearing landscape than Skye, where we have been this weekend. More specifically, we have been walking in the incredible Black Cuillin. These are legendary mountains, and deservedly so. All the walkers…

blencathra

By: Kate Davies Designs June 29, 2009June 3, 2010

Lake District, landscape, walkingBlencathra, Cumbria, Doddick Fell, hill walking, Lake District, Mountains, Scales Fell, Sharp Edge, Wainwright, walking23 Comments

Guess where I’ve been? We had an amazing weekend (more on the fest shortly) but I thought I’d begin with where it concluded — a walk up Blencathra. Dominating the skyline of the Northern Lakes with its craggy buttresses and dark gulleys, this is a really distinctive and deservedly popular mountain. Predictably, we plumped for…

B of O

Tom and I have been together for ten years. We don’t really do anniversaries, but this one seemed worth celebrating. We spent the weekend camping, walking, and eating at the Bridge of Orchy (B of O), one of my favourite places. It is hard to explain quite why I love the B of O so…

a walk

By: Kate Davies Designs June 8, 2008June 8, 2008

landscape, mountain knitting, munros, sewing, walkingClothkits, knitting, Meall nan Tarmachan, Mountains, Scotland, sewing, walking4 Comments

Did I mention the weather is superb in Scotland at the moment? We took advantage of it yesterday, climbing Meall nan Tarmachan, and the four tops that make up the Ptarmigan ridge. I remembered my knitting this time. Here I am working on a sock at 3422 feet. Yes, folks, that is a clothkits hat…