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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Western Isles</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>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>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>They don&#8217;t have to be that high</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/01/28/they-dont-have-to-be-that-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend&#39;s greyness did nothing to coax me out of doors and other things took up whatever spare time was available. With a promising forecast for the coming one, I am minded to make use of what goodness comes the way though it will mean preparation for colder temperatures and mindfulness of the threat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How far west?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/11/10/how-far-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is easy to forget is that the British mainland is not aligned along the Greenwich meridian but at an angle to it. One of the effects of&#160;that state of affairs&#160;is that Edinburgh and Manchester are nearly lined up in a straight north-south line, even if shadowing the coast and finding a line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look back at 2008 III: Beyond Midsummer</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/01/17/a-look-back-at-2008-iii-beyond-midsummer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/01/17/a-look-back-at-2008-iii-beyond-midsummer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midsummer in 2008 might have been a time when I felt that the year had peaked and the encroachment of unsettled weather may have had something to do with that view. Certainly, the year will not be remembered for having a sunny summer and many were disappointed, even if it did have its better interludes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Western Isles walking guides</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/11/12/on-western-isles-walking-guides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to build a picture of anywhere that&#160;I am&#160;going for the first time, I end up hitting the web as well as perusing books and maps to get a sense of the place and where to go together with what there is to be seen. Of course, any plan that results is going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of island hopping VII: leaving South Uist for home</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/10/16/a-spot-of-island-hopping-vii-leaving-south-uist-for-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of every good trip, there&#8217;s the bittersweet experience of the journey home, especially you like the wilder places as much as I do. Nevertheless, this was a journey that had its good points with the surroundings becoming ever more familiar as it continued. The first part of the journey involved a lengthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of island hopping VI: exploring South Uist</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/10/08/a-spot-of-island-hopping-vi-exploring-south-uist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, August 15th: After the wonderful weather that I met on Harris and enjoyed from there to South Uist, the skies on the Friday of my week long visit were to have more of a milky consistency. That isn&#8217;t to say that the day was a bad one, even if I did get a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of island hopping V: travelling from Harris to South Uist</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/10/02/a-spot-of-island-hopping-v-travelling-from-harris-to-south-uist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, August 14th: Thursday morning began with sunny spells like the preceding days and I would have been forgiven for embarking on further explorations of Harris. After all, I had concentrated my efforts on that piece between Tarbert, &#192;ird a&#8217; Mhulaidh (English: Ardvourlie) and Miabhaig (English: Meavaig) and that&#8217;s only part of what&#8217;s there. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of island hopping IV: going deeper into Harris hill country</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/09/27/a-spot-of-island-hopping-iv-going-deeper-into-harris-hill-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, August 13th: After spending a long and largely sunny weekend visiting folk in &#201;ire (I did manage to get up to the top of a hill so that there might more on that later), it is time to pick up the next installment of that Hebridean trip report. The start to that Wednesday was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of island hopping III: exploring part of the Harris Walkway</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/09/15/a-spot-of-island-hopping-iii-exploring-part-of-the-harris-walkway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, August 12th: It&#8217;s been a while since the last installation of my Hebridean trip report so it&#8217;s about time that this made its appearance. Picking which photos to include did cause some of the delay and I hope that I picked the best ones; there were many contenders of equal quality and it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Familiar, yet not so familiar</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/09/09/familiar-yet-not-so-familiar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English may pervade all of the U.K. these days but other languages live on too and the names of places and landscape features like hills betray the influence of those non-English languages and cultures during its history. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse names have remained in existence, even if they have morphed over the years. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Harris Walkway, an attractive hiking option</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/09/07/the-harris-walkway-an-attractive-hiking-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/09/07/the-harris-walkway-an-attractive-hiking-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think that a trail passing through the countryside of Harris with its wondrous hills, glens and&#160;lochs would be well publicised. However, that does not appear to be the case for the Harris Walkway and I&#160;came&#160;across it&#160;while following tracks marked on my OS map during my explorations of Harris last month. Even finding a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of island hopping II: crossing to Harris</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/09/05/a-spot-of-island-hopping-ii-crossing-to-harris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, August 11th: Ferry travel and island hopping are often synonymous. During previous Scottish outings, I have been known to explore Mull, Iona and Arran with Caledonian Macbrayne (Calmac to one and all) getting me to and from the islands in question. An Easter excursion to Arran involved an overnight stay but Mull and Iona [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plans sometimes do come to fruition&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/08/18/plans-sometimes-do-come-to-fruition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2008/08/18/plans-sometimes-do-come-to-fruition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written on this blog before about an idea of exploring the Western Isles that I got into my head. Well, it has come to pass and I&#8217;m now back from what turned out to be a good trip. The weather wasn&#8217;t too unkind to me at all and I reckon that I got [...]]]></description>
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