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RE: Ulog 23: Not-so-serious Bagging! Two lovely Corbetts in the Orchy hills
Those hills are really barren @natubat
Not even trees but only below. I bet you are really have to prepare in order to climb those hills but I know that climbing them are really exhilarating.
Yes, sadly Scotland's forests have been decimated over hundreds of years, and especially around the time of the first world war. After that, fast-growing Sitka spruces were planted, which were no use for the native wildlife. Native forests are being re-planted now, but it will take hundreds of years for them to mature.
And yes, you have to build up your leg muscles quite a lot to climb the hills. Or just go up them really slowly!