{"id":1237,"date":"2012-04-28T22:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T21:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2012-04-28T22:12:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T21:12:31","slug":"hill-running-bac-an-eich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/28\/hill-running-bac-an-eich\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill running &#8211; Bac an Eich"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/28\/hill-running-bac-an-eich\/bac-an-eich-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1238\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bac an Eich (9)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Alex (left) and Jonathan on the approach to Sgurr Toll Lochain on the summit ridge of the snow-capped Bac an Eich.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bac an Eich (9)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg?resize=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Bac-an-Eich-9.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex (left) and Jonathan on the approach to Sgurr Toll Lochain on the summit ridge of the snow-capped Bac an Eich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had my first real experience of hill running today, when I was taken up Bac an Eich in Strathconon by a couple of guys from the Highland Hill Runners. It&#8217;s a hill I&#8217;ve had my eye on for some time so it was great to get the chance to go up there, and on such a fantastic day. <\/p>\n<p>The picture really shows off the shape of the hill well. We were at the summit within an hour-and-a-half of setting off and back home by lunch time &#8211; not my usual day on the hill!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There were incredible views of the Strathfarrar Munros, among many other visible summits, including Sgurr Mor and Sgurr nan Clach Geala in the Fannichs.<\/p>\n<p>A fine day out and I quite fancy another go at this hill running malarkey! <\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-1237\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">48.5538633<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-96.1689071<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first real experience of hill running today, when I was taken up Bac an Eich in Strathconon by a couple of guys from the Highland Hill Runners. It&#8217;s a hill I&#8217;ve had my eye on for some time so it was great to get the chance to go up there, and on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,65,8,50,5,60],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-jX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}