This year's New Year trip is going to Braemar, in the Cairngorms.
Braemar sits right in the heart of the mountains, and walking options range from the relatively accessible Munros beside the Glenshee ski centre to long hard walks to the remote peaks in the subarctic wilderness of the Cairngorm plateau. Depending on conditions, there might also be opportunities for skiing at Glenshee and the Licht, or even winter climbing at Lochnagar and beyond.
The New Year trip is also a great social occasion - in the past, we've filled in the long evenings with everything from impromptu ceilidhs, dubiously legal fireworks to demonstrably unsafe party games. Expect a big haggis supper for Hogmanay.
We last stayed at SYHA Braemar, a former shooting lodge, in 2019. It has since been fully renovated.