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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Argyll</title>
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	<description>Thanks for dropping by. What is now my hillwalking blog started out as a place to put hillwalking trip reports and photo gallery update news. It has since blossomed from those beginnings to take on a life of its own, with the aforementioned being complemented by related topics such as plans for future outings, walking books, outdoors gear, weather, travel and the wonder of nature. Enjoy.</description>
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		<title>A look back at 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/26/a-look-back-at-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, 2011 will have to be seen as one when work very much got in the way of hill wandering. Even if it did, I did get out on quite a few excursions over its course and some of them took me places where I hadn&#8217;t been before then. Also, there was a sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It would be a pity to see them go</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/14/it-would-be-a-pity-to-see-them-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent poke around the SYHA website revealed some sad news: hostel closures. In total, there have been 46 but 5 of them are facing closure. There&#8217;s Canisbay near John O&#8217;Groats in Caithness, Arden near Loch Lomond and three in the Scottish Borders. These are Broadmeadows, Kirk Yetholm and Melrose. The latter losses will leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Weekend Around Cowal: Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/11/25/a-weekend-around-cowal-sunday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/11/25/a-weekend-around-cowal-sunday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being stiffer on a day that fitted in a lot of walking doesn&#8217;t mean that you have to be grounded as this piece hopefully will prove. Having alluring weather certainly helps, of course, as does the proximity of some attractive countryside where you can trot largely undisturbed. Hopefully, what follows will show that you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Weekend Around Cowal: Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/11/24/a-weekend-around-cowal-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/11/24/a-weekend-around-cowal-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Easter weekends often come in two halves: Friday and Saturday are always spent at home while Sunday and Monday see me go away somewhere. Sometimes, I extend the four day weekend with another to make my getaway longer. This year, that didn&#8217;t happen because of work commitments but I got to spend some time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip reports in progress</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/11/23/trip-reports-in-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekend may have been spent around Cowal during the spring but it has taken until now to get the trip report more or less written, such has been the course that my life has taken. Just setting down the words took me back to that weekend and even to other walking trips where peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekends away</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/05/05/weekends-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 19:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening finds Macclesfield a damper place than it has been for a good while. In fact, it could be said that 2011 has been largely dry until now. Of course, that can change and an unsettled summer could be all that many remember yet. In fact, some are asking if we are getting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious fresh green growth</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/04/20/glorious-fresh-green-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a little break, I am back cycling to and from work again. In the mornings, it is possible to revel in the way that everything has come to life over the last few weeks. That we have what feels like summer weather only can have helped. This year, it seems that the display of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year in two halves</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/02/02/a-year-in-two-halves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was one event in my life over the last year that very firmly punctuated the year in outdoors terms: a change of job. Whether it was the cause of putting my hill-going off track or not, there clearly were less outings in the second half of the year and those that were enjoyed weren&#39;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminders of unfinished business</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/01/29/reminders-of-unfinished-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ardgour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend saw me follow a flight of fancy in that I journeyed up to Fort William on the Sleeper from Crewe. A forecast showing some sunshine was what unleashed me but the reality was more foggy when I reached Fort William. Incidentally, it was very foggy when I left Crewe too but that didn&#39;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/07/17/july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July&#39;s often a month that sends me into a sort of hiatus. Maybe, for all the hopes of scorching summers that seem to circulate every year, it&#39;s because the weather isn&#39;t ever as good as what gets anticipated. This year, it&#39;s being a damp one after the very dry weather of May and June. Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sampling Kintyre with Arran and Cowal in View</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/07/14/sampling-kintyre-with-arran-and-cowal-in-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/07/14/sampling-kintyre-with-arran-and-cowal-in-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Met Office weather forecast for my few days in Arran and Argyll displayed an ever improving trend with Saturday being among the best of the lot. Of course, weather trends can change and there wasn&#39;t as much sun as predicted. However, that has its advantages because cloud shields you from the heat of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It wasn&#8217;t sunny everywhere, not that it mattered</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/06/28/it-wasnt-sunny-everywhere-not-that-it-mattered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depending on where you were, this past weekend might have felt every bit a scorcher. However, if you were stood around Rest and Be Thankful on Sunday morning, it was not scorching sun that you would have experienced but a soaking from a conveyor belt&#160;dragging showers of rain through the surrounding hills. Having experienced this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An escape ahead?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/06/22/an-escape-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few weeks of being occupied by other matters, I have managed to clear some space for a hill wandering escape. As is my habit with all these things, I&#39;ll keep the details of what I have in mind under wraps for now because plans can change. In fact, it often happens that it&#39;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: a year of reconnaissance and rediscovery</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/01/26/2009-a-year-of-reconnaissance-and-rediscovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Christmas 2009, I tried making a start on this round-up but the attempt came to a full stop. One cause was a memory block and a certain loss of chronology in the trip report postings. Along with this, end of year fatigue and lack of inspiration had their parts to play too. The latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In times of plummeting mercury</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/11/12/in-times-of-plummeting-mercury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had to come as it often does at the start of November. Temperatures fell on a Sunday night after a fairly pleasant day&#160;that saw me fail to get out into the open air as I would have liked. What followed it was a&#160;day that mixed&#160;fine crisp winter sun and typical November misty murkiness. Some [...]]]></description>
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