tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39260245041960683692024-03-17T17:51:59.731+00:00Louise's Big Adventure"It'll be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not the end."Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-42931725601665535022023-10-18T15:57:00.001+01:002023-10-18T15:58:50.540+01:00Reflections of TGO 2023<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> I've taken my time to have a good think about this post. I think we can safely say, my Challenge this year didn't go to plan.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I didn't have any major changes of gear this year, except I carried my RAB Xenair gilet and the lighter of my two Montane primaloft jackets, the Prism, in the hope of a little more flexibility with my insulated layers. I also had my Montane Primino zip top instead of my Montane Allez Micro. The combination seemed to work, but I was still cold at night at times, so I might have a re-think.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">My food plan works, so long as I can find suitable items to resupply. Kinlochleven was tricky, but I managed. Perhaps more imagination needed.</span></p><p>The route plan itself wasn't the best, I think I lost sight of my goal of a simple route across Scotland and took the easy option of cycle paths in the first few days which meant I had long days. Coupled with the added pressure of a ferry crossing on the first day, and missing the most convenient one back to the main land, the first three days proved to be quite taxing. The blisters that developed on Day Four were my own fault, I felt the hot spots but couldn't be bothered to deal with them, I was so close to camp. At the end of Day Five I really aggravated them after taking some heavy duty painkillers for my shoulder and didn't realise the damage I was doing until they exploded.</p><p>In the first few days after returning home, I was convinced I was not going to Challenge again. I have now failed four times out of twelve to get across Scotland, perhaps I'm not really cut out for this? There was some doubt in my mind that the Challenge itself might continue after 2024, meaning maybe I couldn't now get my 10th Challenge, so what was the point?</p><p>After a while, I decided that if I didn't get my 9th next year, and the Challenge did continue, it would take me longer to get my 10th.</p><p>Then I had news from my dear friend Alan that change my thinking completely. Alan had been hugely influential on my having entered the Challenge in the first place, back in 2009. Ever since, he had been the most wonderful support, always encouraging and interested. Not just to me, but to dozens of other Challengers and First Timers.</p><p>So now, I *have* to get my 10th. Because Alan had faith in me. So I must have faith in me too.</p><p>Thanks Alan xx</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQWM9E0dG40e7KyCAMqSfnLH3wpGyitucLayrLXuHJuxSL8qoCstiUnxDECoMls9cw9vcdaoUbdEqSFzeK2XP14OPpIR11wMFA0raeDhH0rbGzPcIEvxWh92Ok_jcMoDWK8kjMRs9owQEDMeVYAyfJExiZ1N8RxeNWXZ8aO2dxpIsbFLxqVPC-YH31z4/s2048/P5190651%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1466" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQWM9E0dG40e7KyCAMqSfnLH3wpGyitucLayrLXuHJuxSL8qoCstiUnxDECoMls9cw9vcdaoUbdEqSFzeK2XP14OPpIR11wMFA0raeDhH0rbGzPcIEvxWh92Ok_jcMoDWK8kjMRs9owQEDMeVYAyfJExiZ1N8RxeNWXZ8aO2dxpIsbFLxqVPC-YH31z4/w458-h640/P5190651%20(2).jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Alan and his pal, Phil, in the Mason's Arms, Tarfside</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-49260939183206704492023-10-18T15:18:00.004+01:002023-10-18T15:18:37.994+01:00A walk with Laura and Jasper - 30th August<p> Laura and I decided to meet near Boat of Garten for a walk. It was a lovely day and we wondered through the woods just chatting and setting the world to rights. Jasper was such a good boy, we met a few people including two of the Cairngorm Rangers, but mostly we just had a lovely, quiet day</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Ndiww0NdrVcPOKRuWZUwSgf50iABUK3JSj1uV4Bb5H-c3W2V6GEm8AeMeQpskiEzdMSSCH51bU5ruKY-Io40a5v3hpgxqPc7uIChaFwHqTuQcIyTqh_GzMIH1fG8Ju6QqZRtPDpl03WAhVyxYUCOpXBt6LimhlpZV4J4UcAWsxPWFrmu50NVjiuL_iE/s4000/IMG_20230830_103724.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Ndiww0NdrVcPOKRuWZUwSgf50iABUK3JSj1uV4Bb5H-c3W2V6GEm8AeMeQpskiEzdMSSCH51bU5ruKY-Io40a5v3hpgxqPc7uIChaFwHqTuQcIyTqh_GzMIH1fG8Ju6QqZRtPDpl03WAhVyxYUCOpXBt6LimhlpZV4J4UcAWsxPWFrmu50NVjiuL_iE/w300-h400/IMG_20230830_103724.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Lovely boy, Jasper</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi76FK17PzOhtyw11mHGLUE1ZDVKLh-HVd-FuizGITtYYfmMNnaSNVggKcAD-BAPd8TRSjagq_bMsDpTSSCSC4P73XTExf5R5RM6katXukZFFJjYPvtoT0UQbDC-ZASHo2xcM6YWi4fuxXlQE9H9yR9x4_IXRZUcvlH-aGfAL-r2qnuvNHdrdFrA6pp4Gk/w400-h300/IMG_20230830_131459.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We sat in the back of Laura's van to eat lunch with the tailgate open, the weather was nice but trying to rain. You can just see a van parked on the verge outside the car park. Not entirely sure why he chose to park there, he did walk round the car park which was plenty big enough and virtually empty. People are strange.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Lovely walk though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 7.5km and 263m total ascent</span></p></div>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-90498551331573536992023-10-18T14:54:00.004+01:002023-10-18T14:55:32.843+01:00Adventures with Ellie - 19th August '23 Caithness and Sutherland<p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It was later than I'd hoped when we finally set off after dinner, but it did mean the roads were relatively quiet once we were north of Tain, heading for a favourite spot at Latheronwheel. We weren't far from our destination when David exclaimed, "I've forgotten the blinds!" Oops. I was not perturbed by this, we have plenty of things in Ellie that I thought we could use to overcome the main issues of daylight and privacy, so we continued.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We arrived to find a motorhome and a couple of vans already parked, one of which was across the front of the harbour. We parked up and started to figure out how to best use the lightweight bath towel, the toilet cabinet cushion and table to best effect as window blinds, during which time the van at the front moved and parked next to us. I wasn't sure if we had somehow caused offence. Anyway, we were soon settled for the night as it was late and we were tired.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had a peaceful night, although David never sleeps well for the first night or two, but we were in no rush and had a relaxed breakfast. The van next door started up early and we thought they were off, but then discovered they had simply moved back to their original spot. How odd. A small council van arrived, we thought it strange on a Sunday, but the chap got out and did a litter pick (not that there was much) and had a chat with the occupants of the van, obviously agreeing to take their rubbish for them. They turned out to be Spanish, and they had moved their van to use the wall for putting their stove on to cook breakfast. Must be a tricky set up in miserable weather.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We went for a little stroll along the John o' Groats Trail, just out of curiosity, heading north this time having headed south last time. I'd like to do more of it, in time. As usual, we left a donation in the box, we didn't see anyone else do the same. Then we packed up and set off towards Dunnet Head as I'd never been there. It's a busy place, but there was plenty of parking and an ice cream van when we arrived, sadly he left before we'd had lunch, so I didn't get an ice cream. The motorhome spaces were full when we arrived, so we'd parked in the next space.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We went for a little walk, there were rather a lot of people so we didn't hang around. There is a trig point, not many people seemed to know this, so we went for a short walk to visit it while no one else was there, then went back to Ellie. We popped the roof to have lunch, but had no intention of stopping as it was too early and too busy. We planned to head to another favourite spot for the night.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMPbBAJQ3neW6eDPwAKPC6Y5FX09v4fekb58olvEbkOpgGVxQH_Km_202gKrir8i7-pwVCmS8Kbe1LxFnMkAdLT5j5HQdSgCsZZJCj4vyiTFW2P1_PHNr82sWVHHTQ0MQklnKExicMWA9KdVWezzmqrzcySYGCNjw2v2aKpmYFq-LCh2tQsFvPCaSpyo/s4000/IMG_20230819_201136.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMPbBAJQ3neW6eDPwAKPC6Y5FX09v4fekb58olvEbkOpgGVxQH_Km_202gKrir8i7-pwVCmS8Kbe1LxFnMkAdLT5j5HQdSgCsZZJCj4vyiTFW2P1_PHNr82sWVHHTQ0MQklnKExicMWA9KdVWezzmqrzcySYGCNjw2v2aKpmYFq-LCh2tQsFvPCaSpyo/w300-h400/IMG_20230819_201136.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Heading to the bridge</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMwrx5LTXsVYO6AJSDAU01hSE1EOtqxxfQ0ggT9B64raIb3NoMyrLJQUT13OESijC59Y9COuME2Jcjpo3WtyQ_VhphPnpX9lfbSTBjQ3XYJ5b36pvwS8fbIvILuYnTqxUOKyLpcJZf41RgD2h-N6E-n1sADBpTe062lIuyB7ZTj1VuU8U4jB04oPJeM28/s4000/IMG_20230819_205408.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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There wasn't a lot of traffic, some of it was slow. We eventually turned off the main road and headed south for a bit before parking up for the night. When we arrived, there was a van already there, but they had parked neatly and there was plenty of room to park next to them. As we were setting up the van, David went to put light the gas for the fridge, only to find it wouldn't. A little investigation (handy being married to a techy person) it transpired there was no gas to either the fridge or hob, although there was plenty of gas in the cylinder. This is the second regulator to have failed when we've been away. Luckily, having learnt that lesson last time, we had a small camping burner and cylinder with us and were able to conjure up curry and rice for dinner. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Whilst eating dinner we rustled up a plan for the next day to backtrack a little to collect a new regulator, then carry on with our adventures.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilv4bJTZSvijnlriu-BeowJZhziOmA6mQgkbc3NaNnqeMrSAa41NWAAQFnBDcT1wFVcN1Eb8VJ_Z8yqDcT-eVIuJmzohKlO-x7SJv6IoB7JOluS3xJxQz8usLCR2ceasHpxSAATLYNa024CuDrQIocVC1dkz9RQ8yjYL6d5_WcZSS8lkdHMZsFNdYoHX0/s4000/IMG_20230820_150647.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilv4bJTZSvijnlriu-BeowJZhziOmA6mQgkbc3NaNnqeMrSAa41NWAAQFnBDcT1wFVcN1Eb8VJ_Z8yqDcT-eVIuJmzohKlO-x7SJv6IoB7JOluS3xJxQz8usLCR2ceasHpxSAATLYNa024CuDrQIocVC1dkz9RQ8yjYL6d5_WcZSS8lkdHMZsFNdYoHX0/w400-h300/IMG_20230820_150647.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmPWEBChMnVw-eWLdFZ9HMioI-uVuwky7d92NZp1K-0gGpzla2MkIIP25ufIIvtJqp1dH07prxriP9oFLtwH8SJ_1O4wcKca-vIk4JrifT13SpDEBZn9AW_xrPvHscgtXnZ2Yb4Y5Fa_ZNmz7tltmSuF3KgAkbkCTaH7UKVl77e3tDKHANtF3FAcD1wA/w300-h400/IMG_20230820_214110.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had a good night, but didn't get off to an early start, unlike our neighbours who were away by 8am. On our way to Wick, we stopped off at Halladale Inn and Campsite to empty all of our waste for a small fee, being the responsible campervanners that we are. We then collected the replacement regulator and visited Tesco. They were having a bad day, all their refrigerators had failed and they'd had to destroy the vast majority of fresh dairy and meat products. We again found ourselves improvising, for dinner this time. Then we headed to Noss Head, which is so out of the way we had expected it to be quiet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It was not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We took a walk to the castle, Castle Sinclair Birnigoe, which is quite interesting and has a lot of information, I may have grumbled a significant amount. We then returned to Ellie and left, pausing briefly to collect an entire toilet roll that we'd seen by the side of the road that had incensed me, not a difficult thing to dispose of responsibly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A casual drive saw us following the coast again for a while before heading inland, south along Strath Naver to another favourite overnight spot. On the journey there, I was becoming increasing concerned by the number of signs at parking places stating 'no unauthorised vehicles' and similar statements, obviously reserving the parking for fishermen. As we approached our planned stop, we could see a vehicle parked at what appeared to be our spot, but as we got closer we could see it was actually just off a passing space (not a great place to stop, don't do it) and our preferred spot was empty. We were aware of the car all evening, never really worked out what they were doing. During the evening we were also aware of what looked like head torches approaching from the other direction, but they seemed to be making very slow progress and we went to bed without seeing their final destination, possibly meeting up with the chap in the car.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Dinner was had and as we had a good signal, we watched a little television before settling down for a peaceful night.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhksk722x4-yDd5S_bybSAtNtt8uuSsnsg6JzyT0YTlMVtkoH_RZSr3uwxMPXyUAb88AbLm4H4-L2Du37ITj3SjvQ43vX4vRJMEHKefWb2t6Rk5OtMBM9lK86HK83Hbp_sKEaXpyHMy_bqR13KPxO3HytD8ueKJzmsOWWhPhyaJ5kkil8O78P08hv0iqK8/s4000/IMG_20230821_095748.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhksk722x4-yDd5S_bybSAtNtt8uuSsnsg6JzyT0YTlMVtkoH_RZSr3uwxMPXyUAb88AbLm4H4-L2Du37ITj3SjvQ43vX4vRJMEHKefWb2t6Rk5OtMBM9lK86HK83Hbp_sKEaXpyHMy_bqR13KPxO3HytD8ueKJzmsOWWhPhyaJ5kkil8O78P08hv0iqK8/w400-h300/IMG_20230821_095748.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We concluded the headtorches we'd seen the night before had not been connected to the chap in the car and were probably fisherman in boats on a small loch.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had breakfast and decided to head for a walk at Rosal, a clearance village with some ancient history, not far from where we had spent the night. On arrival, there was a couple in a car loitering at the entrance to the forestry track, clearly a little unsure as to whether they could continue. As we confidently set off along the track to the car park, they followed us down. The car park is quite a way down the track and looked a little sad and forlorn when we arrived, minus an information promised in the WalkHighland details of this walk, but we were confident we were correct, which we informed the other walkers and they believed us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A short while later, having set off on foot along said forestry track, we found an obviously much newer car park, with a new information board, and having been passed by a car as they left, I would say only known about by the locals. Thanks WH.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Anyway, we found the settlement and entered the enclosure to explore the remaining rock piles, the many sites of the clearance village, bronze age and souterrain. A really interesting place, had the promised information boards been in evidence. Also, no clear paths as it was so overgrown, but there were little posts so we could make our own way around the site.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Having spent a good while wandering around, getting wet feet, we left the enclosure and followed a little path through the trees to return to the old car park. We met a couple coming the other way who had obviously turned off the main track by the gate, rather than along the track, but no matter, we reassured them they didn't have far to go. On returning to Ellie, we decided to spend the night at Falls of Shin. We have stayed there before, but last time the cafe and facilities were open. We arrived to find these are sadly no more, although plenty of people still stop by to walk the dog or for children to play at the play park, some may also have ventured to see the salmon leap. The motorhome facilities are still there in full working order for a small fee, and we used them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Many people came and went during the afternoon and early evening, including many vans and motorhomes, but only one other van was clearly going to settle down for the night along with us. 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It is a favourite place for us to stop over and it was convenient for our planned walk on Stac Pollaidh the next day. After we parked there were a few vehicles came and went, we went for a stroll along the trail to stretch our legs. Part way we met a stag blocking our path. We waited a while to see if he would move, but he seemed content to stay put. David pointed our he had a friend close by. We decided to leave them to it and turned back. 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There were other vehicles parked close by, but we were not going to add to any issues and decided to do a walk we had planned for the following day. The car park there was quiet and we set off.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It was a beautiful day, quite warm, with clear blue skies and blazing sunshine.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I had not looked closely at the details of this walk as I was planning it for the following day and was unprepared for wet feet within the first few hundred metres. Oh well. We ambled along, pausing to take in the views and to do a bit of birdwatching, we saw razorbills and red throated divers.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">There was an older couple who had set off just behind us, they were making steady progress too, but as we continued there were some tricky rocky sections to clamber. After we'd had lunch overlooking a small bay, it became apparent they must have turned back as we could see a long way behind and they had disappeared. There were stunning views of Suilven, Cul Mor and Stac Pollaidh. We had watched a chap in the small bay poking about the rocks and boulders, we were curious as to what he was up to.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We continued on our walk, turning inland and shortly after, David narrowly missed standing on a large, female adder. Never seen him move so fast. We followed the boggy, vague path, crossing burns using a few dodgy planks, before eventually reaching the road at a bridge and turning towards the car park, just over a kilometre away. As we walked, we met the chap who had been poking about on the beach earlier, we had a chat and he turned out to be a geologist, returning to a previous project from his university days.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We reached Ellie shortly before the other couple returned to their vehicle, they had turned back at about half way, so we had covered a similar distance. From here, we decided to treat ourselves to a night on the campsite, <a href="http://portabhaigh.co.uk" target="_blank">Port a Bhaigh</a>, a lovely site with a pub across the road. We arrived in plenty of time to get set up and shower before going for a meal at the pub. It was delicious.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had been to wash up a few dishes and were heading back to Ellie when we bumped into some friends from home, we'd pitched next to their van and not realised! 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The car park was busy, but only small, so we figured the hill wouldn't be too busy. We were able to fit Ellie in neatly, got our sandwiches and gear sorted and set off.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The first part of the path is quite steep. Part way up, the path split and we managed to take the wrong fork. After a while, we realised and adjusted our aim to intersect the correct path again further up, no big deal. After a short while, we got to the top of the main climb and stopped for a break and a snack. We could see the summit ahead of us now and, having found the path, headed straight for it. We split briefly but stayed in visual contact, David paused to speak to two ladies who had just left the cairn, but I continued on to the slight scramble to the top. The views were huge and stunning, but I didn't like the drop and climbed back down a bit out of the wind and away from the edge. We perched together on a rock to eat lunch, watching two paragliders over Beinn Mhòr na Coigach before heading off the hill ourselves. We met three young men who had set off behind us and were taking their time to reach the summit, and once we got back to the car park, we met the two ladies David had spoken to as they drove away. It was a lovely walk.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had decided to return to the campsite for a second night as we were virtually passing anyway, we ate a meal in Ellie before being treated to another great sunset and a quiet night.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A great first trip of the year away.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Approximately 8.91km 608mS</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibbii3_kv5c0d50rFVb6i81yZxjHZlS05e4xPfmPdMR7qEVtOlNLCmBk5kZ_Z7wmPsZrZHAl0JsfKx53S_KadMB6piMDiU0TyOZ0HD1X7oWw9vLb5PN0JYUxwdMSk9TpSM3g5LjviBgBhAYC__7hMEhxXfNVMCoVFc2zwle0fn7xSv1F4OEKdOQzkx/s4000/IMG_20230418_112411%20-%20downloaded%20from%20my%20phone%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I had only spent about 3 nights in her before this Challenge, and the main test had been whether the midges could get in last June/July. Which they didn't.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This year, midgies weren't going to be the biggest issue.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The inner of this tent is half solid, half mesh, so it was possible that I could be cold, but I never felt that there was a cold draught coming through the mesh, so that was good. We had plenty of rain overnight, but Netty was completely water tight, which was also reassuring. The main problem faced this year was high winds, so pitching the tent and remaining upright was the concern. Because of some of the decisions I made, based on the forecast, meant I was mostly pitched safely with shelter, unlike some other unfortunate Challengers who had to endure several difficult nights. The worst conditions I faced were on the Invernahavon Campsite, so I was at least in a safe place, but I was still pretty worried by the huge gusts of wind over a two or three hour period, the torrential rain at the time meant that if Netty had failed my gear would all be soaked, so when the rain had first woken me, I had packed everything away in my rucksack and had a plan to rescue my sleeping bag and mat to keep them as dry as possible. As it was, Netty was awesome, my walking poles, Black Diamond Carbon FLZ, also new, were absolutely solid and we survived in tact.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">As well as being pitched with my walking poles, the other main difference with this tent is having two porches. I find this incredibly useful. When Netty is pitched, she is pointy end into the wind. because of the way the doors open, one will open into the wind, the other will be sheltered, so when emptied I keep my rucksack in the windy porch as I won't be opening that one again till I drop the tent. The other porch is where I will keep my boots and water and use my stove, with the door open. Unless it is raining, this works well. If it is raining, it really depends on how the rain is falling as to whether I use my stove or not, I usually have enough food with me that I can cope without having to light my stove if necessary.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I need more practice to pitch her nicely every time, but overall, I think I like Netty, and trust her.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">MSR 9" Core Pegs</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yup, four teamed with four mini-ground hog pegs, did a great job.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8M4lUZzVkvodDu-EJgiCZpGPKWKnVPZAHrzZ59usEXYhO9TC1xpqOjSaU2Otrd6BALmf88n2n6YMFO0LqYuFVbWnHa3H7RMHArRwO0dQ6LQqBAouCwYbBhFTxpmt7K0NgoRIqHZJ6Aczwlp4IhVJVY9vVCAVAIVXWej3XJ_Kizx9lQ869AivMpUF/s4000/IMG_20220517_163231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8M4lUZzVkvodDu-EJgiCZpGPKWKnVPZAHrzZ59usEXYhO9TC1xpqOjSaU2Otrd6BALmf88n2n6YMFO0LqYuFVbWnHa3H7RMHArRwO0dQ6LQqBAouCwYbBhFTxpmt7K0NgoRIqHZJ6Aczwlp4IhVJVY9vVCAVAIVXWej3XJ_Kizx9lQ869AivMpUF/w480-h640/IMG_20220517_163231.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">MSR Pocket Rocket Deluxe</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I had a new stove this year, an MSR Pocket Rocket Deluxe, and I had an Alpkit MyTi mug to go with it. I had debated what size gas canister to take as obviously I expected to use more gas than with my Jetboil Flash, but had no idea how much. I settled on taking a 230g cannister, and if needed I could collect a small can from Laura's front porch or buy one in Braemar or Ballater. I also knew I wouldn't be on my own in the second week, so if I badly miscalculated, there would be someone who had spare.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I found that I was comfortable with the stove after a few uses, it burned well and usually brought a half litre of water to the boil relatively quickly, unless it was catching a bit of wind. I did not use it in the porch without the door open, which I have done with my Flash in my Laser, but I don't think I would use the Flash in Netty's porch either.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I almost got across Scotland with the one canister, I just needed to borrow a small canister from Barry on the last morning for my coffee, so that gives me an idea of how much gas I might use in future, I did not have a hot meal and drink every night and sometimes no coffee in the morning, mainly due to mood, not weather.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The Alpit MyTi mug is also great, no issues with that except I am stupid and kept burning my fingers. I have made myself a pot grab to resolve this.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6KnacwCTdCuOJOAovUgycyCno5falprwHH7po_dzZPGUOw39bttaPbq5bbFVocJ4jJLoDfHaOByTLI8cXA6O4q9lwf5465J-aiIlfk-s4etljibknc08xWgK_5umswzpK0aer1ORAPGAb0rqrQC6McSUOCjjVH1QUMk5zPUiS9DnWuarPqscl7Cd/s4000/IMG_20220523_185401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6KnacwCTdCuOJOAovUgycyCno5falprwHH7po_dzZPGUOw39bttaPbq5bbFVocJ4jJLoDfHaOByTLI8cXA6O4q9lwf5465J-aiIlfk-s4etljibknc08xWgK_5umswzpK0aer1ORAPGAb0rqrQC6McSUOCjjVH1QUMk5zPUiS9DnWuarPqscl7Cd/w480-h640/IMG_20220523_185401.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Buff Trek Bucket Hat</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I love my Tilley hat, I have taken it on all but one of my Challenges thus far, but the brim catches on the top of my pack and gets irritating. So this year after a little bit of searching I found the Buff Trek Bucket Hat and I have loved it. It fits nicely, has a handy little bit of adjustable elastic cord at the back of the had, a big enough brim to give protection but not catch on my pack, it is light and comfortable to wear and takes up no space in the pack. A good buy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Crocs</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Croc Literide. These are not a lightweight option, but they are a really comfortable shoe to wear when I take my boots off, which after suffering Plantar Fasciitis for nearly two years and recently resolving the issue, I wanted something with support and comfort, so this was my choice. I decided to pack them in the parcel I would collect at Newtonmore, this was an illogical decision given the river crossings I was due to make on days One and Seven, but in the event, I made no river crossings that required a change of footwear and got away with the decision. I would also say that, once I had my Crocs, I was glad of them when I took my boots off at the end of the day. They may be heavy, but are likely to be high on the list next time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Rab Borealis Jacket and Montane Primino Hoody</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I wore the Borealis every day, either under my waterproofs, or as my top layer. I also wore it as a thin layer in bed over my Montane Primino Hoody. I love it. It is light and comfortable, very effective as a windproof and doesn't make me hot underneath my waterproofs. Love it. The Primino Hoody is super comfortable, surprisingly cosy for such a thin layer and the hood was fantastic instead a hat in my sleeping bag. I also wore this as my social top, as it is largely merino, it stays odour free for days, brilliant top.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Montane Dart LS top</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A great t-shirt, worn every day to walk and only washed twice I think during the trip, just wish it was slightly longer.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Knickers</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back to the drawing board with these, I took two pairs of Sloggi knickers, Wow Comfort and Sensual Fresh, neither of which were comfortable to walk in, one was better than the other thankfully. Merino is definitely better for freshness, just need to find a comfortable pair that don't have an awkwardly placed seam that rubs on my hips. I had sore, rubbed hips again this year, I like the rucksack, it carries well, but there is conflict between my rucksack belt and knickers that causes the rubbing which I need to resolve. I put clear film waterproof dressings on this year, the kind used on a canular or new tattoo, they definitely helped, but it was still sore enough that I had to take painkillers towards the end of the longer days, so I need to sort this.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hoka One One Sky Kaha boots</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I love these boots, no rubs, no blisters, no sore toes, all day comfort. I will buy them again.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Kula Cloth</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hmm. Saved my carrying much toilet paper, needs much more sunlight to work at its best. Enough said.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Panda Bamboo Dry Wipes</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yup, work fine, will take again.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Salt of the Earth Deodourant Crystal</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Brilliant, I felt much better than I usually do, I had a wipe down at night using the Panda wipes and then applied the crystal. I use the bigger version every day at home and for me, it is amazing. Love it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aluminium mat cut off</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Next time, don't forget it. I could definitely feel the cold coming up through my mat from the ground, just enough to notice it, if the weather had been colder, I would have been miserable. Take the mat!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At this moment in time, I think that was all my major new kit.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Struggles</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Clearly, I had a bit of a crisis before the start of the Challenge this year. There was a combination of issues which ganged up on me, but Ciara's advice of step by step, go to the start, was crucial. Once there, I was able to focus on each decision, one at a time, and once walking, I relaxed and had no further issues.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I did not eat brilliantly for a few days before setting off which did not help, and the first few days on the Challenge I wasn't brilliant either. The evening meal I had at the Prince's House Hotel definitely helped, once I got to Newtonmore, my food problems resolved.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I felt as though I didn't sleep well, but I think in reality, I was often asleep much earlier than normal, and even if I was awake several times in the night, it was mainly for very short periods of time, and on the whole I got a good amount of sleep. This probably helped with my mood and with my decision making.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The most important thing was meeting friends in the second week. It gives an enormous boost to be able to discus your adventures and to have them put into perspective by hearing theirs. Don't underestimate the power of your friends!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-24090266098984538152022-04-22T13:43:00.006+01:002022-04-22T13:43:58.206+01:00Little Conval and Meikle Conval<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Another</span> opportunity for a walk, so we decided to bag a couple of local hills, one of which had a trig. The weather was fine and quite warm.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We parked in Dufftown and walked along the road out of town, heading roughly SW. There is a path on the verge for most of the way, before we crossed the road and them headed uphill. I found this to be hard work and quite demoralising at the time, but I have since decided that I am so used to running now that walking felt slow and hard work. It felt like an age before we reached the top of Little Conval and bagged the trig. There is a track all the way. We had a bite to eat and a drink before turning around and heading downhill. I also change my jacket, it was breezy and quite cool at the top. After returning to the bealach, we headed uphill once more, this time on a small, boggy path heading up through the heather and boggy patches. I found this bit easier. There is no logic to this. It did not take too long to reach the top, just a brief stop as it was still breezy and cool, we took a quick bearing to find the track down heading E. Instead of taking the slightly longer route on a minor road back to the town centre, we returned on our outward route.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Roughly 12.82km and 609m ascent</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thoroughly enjoyed myself in lovely company.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We may have found a coffee shop...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBt7CdvEjxRaHv_nmJEQ-OM3Op0xGLbKd5iDdCQqlTY1hgpLQb7Sn-vAd8uDd-T8zNe-1EXFBi5ivbAAQbe2fQQQZL5BYUMbZ_KigFKGiFZin1zJtPj7h3AU6-Ilp3qFA_O9Xq1wzNixvv0xHPshWcQA8HIAA9d2wlSlSAUJN8-A77tGaoOgzytdz/s4000/IMG_20220123_115737.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBt7CdvEjxRaHv_nmJEQ-OM3Op0xGLbKd5iDdCQqlTY1hgpLQb7Sn-vAd8uDd-T8zNe-1EXFBi5ivbAAQbe2fQQQZL5BYUMbZ_KigFKGiFZin1zJtPj7h3AU6-Ilp3qFA_O9Xq1wzNixvv0xHPshWcQA8HIAA9d2wlSlSAUJN8-A77tGaoOgzytdz/s320/IMG_20220123_115737.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Ben Rinnes</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Not an ideal location, but half decent tracks and convenient. The weather was cold with a chance of rain, which of course it did, but not torrentially. My phone was in the Aquapac case I got for Christmas, it may have affected the quality of my photographs.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQKpPnTmUFEgoOP2h8301_c_zLP1oWEJ88wxhWjOVYrs60tlNIJZYgP-fzp_xnUiicGxgbzxWBwR6UL2OTtH8OBtubpCkTKinZjZe4BQkhJtfAJEjXVKuPLdzjvInSKJcd4uh1z7AG9N9oZYDrQL1SEg_clPpa-6RccI345gZ8MnY_8pqdebXHxr8/s4000/IMG_20211227_105556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQKpPnTmUFEgoOP2h8301_c_zLP1oWEJ88wxhWjOVYrs60tlNIJZYgP-fzp_xnUiicGxgbzxWBwR6UL2OTtH8OBtubpCkTKinZjZe4BQkhJtfAJEjXVKuPLdzjvInSKJcd4uh1z7AG9N9oZYDrQL1SEg_clPpa-6RccI345gZ8MnY_8pqdebXHxr8/s320/IMG_20211227_105556.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTB2fvFnq6QSyAtVy02vEIGola-fpoxkGkmi-k5vkpdfZhbT2QH4Z3FuCvaZNpRDgl7Vp3b14tJqVoE2fhejGBZk_O-G3renQpqFmy28IxM8kTMdzOJrLJVJ-d6bEtcvua80vKbgBhR6FjEBZhUoO3y4MbjuDEtMQwFqwOfFhNCmBDcNmajWKkGesI/s4000/IMG_20211227_105600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We had a vague plan and headed over the Kessock Bridge then on towards Struie Hill viewpoint for a lunch stop. It is a popular stop for tourists and there was a coach there when we arrived. As I popped the roof and started to gather lunch making materials, David went outside to turn on the gas in order to make coffee. A German tourist asked if we were stopping the night, to which David responded "No, it's lunch time". "Ah yes, I see the chef at work now."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Rude.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">After lunch, we carried on our way north to Shin Falls where we stopped to investigate the recently upgraded facillities. We used the toilets whilst we were there (people do have trouble following simple instructions *sigh*) took a walk to see if any salmon were leaping (we saw one and something smaller) and then had a look at the black and grey water waste dumps. They are good! But too close to the fresh water tap for our liking. We rarely need to top up with water, so this won't cause us an issue.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Then we were on our way again, just a short distance to Lairg for a short but interesting walk to the remains of a broch and then a chambered cairn. The Walk Highland instructions for this walk were a tad vague, as usual, but we managed never the less and enjoyed a pleasant stroll with good views. There were quite a few people around, a mix of locals walking dogs and one or two other tourists.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bMeIuINUisDYg0803fk2nFT1p-n-B1Ek3KLhKs96Q4a5PRi8pN54cSvHZz58201iNtLct9d_-0Bydh4mMyfcvyXywEMYTRXuOZxrRGU8asB727InOhXZXpTffwUUVu4bOHJJKJkPgmA/s4000/IMG_20210828_145525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bMeIuINUisDYg0803fk2nFT1p-n-B1Ek3KLhKs96Q4a5PRi8pN54cSvHZz58201iNtLct9d_-0Bydh4mMyfcvyXywEMYTRXuOZxrRGU8asB727InOhXZXpTffwUUVu4bOHJJKJkPgmA/w480-h640/IMG_20210828_145525.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7mCQPaCk4adp5VYJD9e9DFFjT7Ucka65lymKNk715dVliOfhTolD6yvef-fCeU08jqSawlSQzqQswrJlOlvDFlpJbruiICTLYKx26QvO-ZflbP17zT-7JVa4bL5iqO1a6ECLBDp3OH4A/s4000/IMG_20210828_145801.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I was somewhat concerned we might be beaten to it, this spot was maybe too obvious, but when we arrived at the car park by Cnoc Craggie, noone else was there, so we made ourselves at home. There is a very short walk to a viewpoint which we decided to stroll up before dinner. As we left Ellie, another van arrived, the occupants of which asked if we minded sharing, which we didn't, but it was nice to be asked.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The walk was very short.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">On returning to Ellie, we prepared dinner and then relaxed with a beer.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8HtUoOpBYuJaMVzcWfsJkQF2B9rtm_PkXoxlshUy1fP06pJL6ZMiXwlSUq0KPRgUVqjVbXBnewo2EMsee87KFad46FGutRxneXxD3twhwfnSYasFuO28hjFdsOzWOSBnn5B9P7DaQ1TI/s4000/IMG_20210828_173557.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8HtUoOpBYuJaMVzcWfsJkQF2B9rtm_PkXoxlshUy1fP06pJL6ZMiXwlSUq0KPRgUVqjVbXBnewo2EMsee87KFad46FGutRxneXxD3twhwfnSYasFuO28hjFdsOzWOSBnn5B9P7DaQ1TI/w480-h640/IMG_20210828_173557.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Another Walk Highlands magical mystery walk, we ended up doing the walk in reverse, but it was still pleasant if very short. This was good, as it meant we arrived at Bettyhill in good time to buy alcohol (Sunday licensing hours in Scotland) While we were there, we found a lovely coffee shop and as we were being tourists, it was the perfect excuse to have coffee and cake. The lady who served us was so friendly and welcoming, I would highly recommend stopping at The Store Cafe. The cake she recommended us was delicious.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47m2RfrbhRtCiEvNecy4Ito3WO3fae99sa1BEULijft9HAJRyOPKeqcYBBkj6Eq334VsWwPUDXiqkLlptUp-wOMxdczL0AKU3XH8QOijVNPaskTMI5RR_Y6M4dyMi8IDimwRRW7ylwZQ/s4000/IMG_20210829_110708.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47m2RfrbhRtCiEvNecy4Ito3WO3fae99sa1BEULijft9HAJRyOPKeqcYBBkj6Eq334VsWwPUDXiqkLlptUp-wOMxdczL0AKU3XH8QOijVNPaskTMI5RR_Y6M4dyMi8IDimwRRW7ylwZQ/w480-h640/IMG_20210829_110708.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZ97ZnE2zMuwS8CDs5imAdT4jPi7BrrK2M53oGGf6njNS-PZFMTjeLCQE95PkuA7DFVB8SMFSGemaUl15FcIClQZ3GhaCdIR0iVMIfc-lHEJu0BP1d6GBOdwyGTZ0ZJQmcxcLXcm1Sqo/s4000/IMG_20210829_112124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZ97ZnE2zMuwS8CDs5imAdT4jPi7BrrK2M53oGGf6njNS-PZFMTjeLCQE95PkuA7DFVB8SMFSGemaUl15FcIClQZ3GhaCdIR0iVMIfc-lHEJu0BP1d6GBOdwyGTZ0ZJQmcxcLXcm1Sqo/w480-h640/IMG_20210829_112124.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMbSyXuK3Swkeeg52ljhKDkD5sUkPoXnARKMOFE0wi_NHxaaKpUfTQYo27CR0nDFZHBEcJaY6xu67qFgFFpeHLq7V4lqJhf3tDekn2k70RidWjUswKLVy1EWcReQFc8QgU9zhmwuZTJA/s4000/IMG_20210829_112724.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMbSyXuK3Swkeeg52ljhKDkD5sUkPoXnARKMOFE0wi_NHxaaKpUfTQYo27CR0nDFZHBEcJaY6xu67qFgFFpeHLq7V4lqJhf3tDekn2k70RidWjUswKLVy1EWcReQFc8QgU9zhmwuZTJA/w480-h640/IMG_20210829_112724.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeLwSoLZyfeTphuksDZbksUFu1MCsWbKQ6aBLhcpYK2hFw0Rr2AhSU9yiiHbX36ivNskLYHG-ONTHIJbnIDMJN3xRPKisQBPnAHxibSnxnAgxtlRv-8UfXNOE5Q5BgqanSvi4JUY7ckA/s4000/IMG_20210829_113124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeLwSoLZyfeTphuksDZbksUFu1MCsWbKQ6aBLhcpYK2hFw0Rr2AhSU9yiiHbX36ivNskLYHG-ONTHIJbnIDMJN3xRPKisQBPnAHxibSnxnAgxtlRv-8UfXNOE5Q5BgqanSvi4JUY7ckA/w480-h640/IMG_20210829_113124.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">After our coffee, David headed uphill to another shop in search of coffee, whilst I returned to Ellie to make sandwiches. When David returned, we opted not to take our lunch with us on our short walk around Ard Mor and set off towards the viewpoint.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This walk follows the edge of the cliffs quite closely, there are wonderful views and lots of seabirds nesting. Also, precipitous drops.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I managed just fine, taking my own route slightly further in land at times.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4q9rpYJeV5wXMbmfNm7u79nlevIPU4XBj217Pi22O_XXs5SE3NcaSnOLXlc7FzrG-YPDw3e6OxHlEV_ePDYFXo6m_sqvUOL2p9U9nrDdjLayPFuODOcCTCfm3wTnkadAJgCECMkb73rM/s2048/P8290061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4q9rpYJeV5wXMbmfNm7u79nlevIPU4XBj217Pi22O_XXs5SE3NcaSnOLXlc7FzrG-YPDw3e6OxHlEV_ePDYFXo6m_sqvUOL2p9U9nrDdjLayPFuODOcCTCfm3wTnkadAJgCECMkb73rM/w640-h480/P8290061.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUr7ePRbxh-8dnylRUNXGpmYOq8D2Vk8K7hP73tBy7cbqW8-bsytv9lVHPjLyiuSiBZc-mlqx0i9BFQOmwYPiEAhm5MKLut0Az8rASaXttUXHif-wkyKlQC5uBKwrNx9fKw98knEYFuME/s2048/P8290062.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We were travelling a really quiet, single track road with views free from pylons, masts and turbines, it was truly wild. We happened upon a parking area just off the road overlooking a small lochan, there was space for another vehicle if someone had been wanting to fish, the views were beautiful and we decided it was perfect for us.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">There were midges, but I popped down to the lochan to take a few photographs before they got annoying, while David put the gas on to light the fridge and ready to cook dinner. Before we lost all daylight, we were able to work out what all the distant lumps and bumps were, including Ben Klibreck and Ben Loyal. There was a mast just off to the right, we were able to pick up enough signal to watch television in bed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This has to be one of the best stops yet.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5exhIsleoWKzYaIau-OW4S9qsQQ6gtVyG8_NvL9fApd_6gXQIM_h8MxzSkuC1EHtk-gGau1vWHhKJaH61QRqtmFny-9R2h7t99Muk4_JCpS3KIsbaP2ENLJInNfeNJWPlbWVqvFverU4/s4000/IMG_20210829_173641.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5exhIsleoWKzYaIau-OW4S9qsQQ6gtVyG8_NvL9fApd_6gXQIM_h8MxzSkuC1EHtk-gGau1vWHhKJaH61QRqtmFny-9R2h7t99Muk4_JCpS3KIsbaP2ENLJInNfeNJWPlbWVqvFverU4/w640-h480/IMG_20210829_173641.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyEY-4Hc-BIm1dXMwiNsyAxYEsd7pS2_eOAfUu1MOb2TSJx7L2DQ4IU4In-WRlax3lNRlSjqWMZvMIa9sQYUMLsxG1z-aJfru3lPj_MtlubJOkq-cqjqv1zBmY7QQYsFA-2hmJvRBU8Zo/s4000/IMG_20210829_200932.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyEY-4Hc-BIm1dXMwiNsyAxYEsd7pS2_eOAfUu1MOb2TSJx7L2DQ4IU4In-WRlax3lNRlSjqWMZvMIa9sQYUMLsxG1z-aJfru3lPj_MtlubJOkq-cqjqv1zBmY7QQYsFA-2hmJvRBU8Zo/w480-h640/IMG_20210829_200932.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Borgie Forest Walk</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 1.82km and 38.4m ascent</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Ard Mor</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 3.13km and 126m ascent</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had an exceptionally quiet night. After breakfast, we waited for a good breeze before David went out to turn off the gas and collect the grey water containers which I stash in the rear doorwell whilst we travel. We were heading back via our outward route so that we could call in by Falls of Shin and use the facillities, thus supporting the community that have provided them. We stopped for lunch at a laybe the other side of Struie Hill this time, it was more level and quieter.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">And then, we were home again.</span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-61752788575673316942021-09-12T15:55:00.001+01:002021-09-12T15:55:06.220+01:00Adventures with Ellie - West Highlands 24th August 2021<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had an opportunity to go away with Ellie towards the end of August, so the Tuesday night saw us making our way towards Invergarry in order to park up overnight and then walk Gleouraich the following morning. We were aware that the A82 was shut at Invergarry and we had to follow the signed diversion. This however did not go to plan, the road we needed was also shut, despite having followed the diversion, so we stopped in the next large layby, luckily away from the road and sheltered by a large bank of trees, so any noise from passing traffic was deadened significantly and we had a reasonable night.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In the morning, we returned to the junction and were able to continue on our route, towards Invergarry before taking the road to Kinloch Hourn. It's a narrow and slow road, and we arrived at the parking area just before lunch. Our sandwiches were ready, so we packed them in our packs, put on our boots and set off.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We have tackled this hill before, last time in <a href="https://gemini-challenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/failure-some-success-and-more-new.html" target="_blank">May 2010</a>, when we had hoped to be on our first Challenge. We hadn't made it off the standby list but had hired a VW van, Rosie, and gone away for a few days. I didn't make it to the summit on that occasion. This time, it was a really warm, dry day, with little breeze and a cloudless sky. I remembered the beginning of the walk quite clearly, the neverending zigzags up hill, passed by two ladies on their way down, continuing until we eventually reached a memorial. I had waited here last time for David as he quickly climbed to the summit and I had rested. There was another name added to the plaque since we were last there. This time we were plagued by flies. They were buzzing around our heads and landing on us, on our faces, necks and arms, on our heads and burrowing into our hair and biting. They refused to be swatted away and couldn't be flicked off, they had to be nipped and pulled off. They were keds and are quite vile. From this point on the keds were our constant companions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcYZ8oe5kxAgz1NTl2DUc_5UFNOQZdm2LJEJZIyEq7gFcSYvBGtmc_-sy0XW_8MsNVNghga3ORUcZ6W6NnVOKYy1E-eIGzvTduxpUOW7Jhex1dHDCChgIqCSk64u1cFS7UsXOdDXT6kE/s2048/P8250054.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcYZ8oe5kxAgz1NTl2DUc_5UFNOQZdm2LJEJZIyEq7gFcSYvBGtmc_-sy0XW_8MsNVNghga3ORUcZ6W6NnVOKYy1E-eIGzvTduxpUOW7Jhex1dHDCChgIqCSk64u1cFS7UsXOdDXT6kE/s320/P8250054.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We continued on, climbing to a false summit where we paused to allow the young lady who had caught us up and two young lads coming towards us to pass comfortably. Then we continued up to the summit cairn. I had to coax myself on after the memorial, the path was at times close to what felt like a precipitous edge, I do not enjoy such exposure and need to stay focussed and calm, trying to keep my breathing controlled and relaxed and DON'T LOOK DOWN. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The summit cairn was surrounded by a huge swarm of keds, but I had to touch it to be able to claim the Munro, so I held my breath and shut my eyes for the obligatory selfie. 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Once round the corner and onto the zigzag path, we lost the swarms of keds, which was a relief, but the path just seemed to go on forever. We were caught up and passed by another chap, an older gentleman who was some kind of mountain goat, powered by the call of a flask of coffee in his car. He quickly disappeared from view.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">As we neared the bottom of the path, we found the handle of a walking pole, I thought it was from a folding pole and had seen the young lady had been carrying a pair, so I thought it might belong to her. I wondered if we could leave it at her car, but once back at the car park I wasn't confident which was hers and didn't want to leave it in prominent position in case she didn't see it or it wasn't hers and was therefore litter, so we opted to take it with us and bin it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Once back with Ellie, we had first replenished our water bottles, added a hydration tablet and drank at least a litre each. We then ate the lunch we had carried with us as with the keds for company, we had not wanted to stop and eat on the hill. We didn't want to sit too long as we weren't sure if the road was going to shut overnight again, but we needed a rest before setting off for our next overnight stop, which we had decided would be at Creag Meagaidh car park.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had no problem getting through Invergarry and were soon in the local Spar in Spean Bridge to buy vital supplies, beer, pudding and chocolate. Then we were on our way again.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Creag Meagaidh is part of a nature reserve looked after by Scottish Natural Heritage. There is a large car park and they welcome campers (admittedly, they probably mean in tents) as long as people behave respectfully and maybe make a donation, which we did. There are also toilets up the hill a bit, so we visited them. The toilets are to the side of a shelter where there was information on the reserve and its wildlife. The toilets were clean and well looked after.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 8.76km and total ascent 918m</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">There were several vans and a couple of tents that pitched overnight, it was a busy little car park with some comings and goings late into the evening, but we had a pleasant evening and a reasonable night. In the morning we had a relaxed breakfast and made use of the facilities again before heading for home. As we were about to pull off, David noticed one of the newly arrived cars was very familiar, then recognised the driver, our young lady from the hill! He was out of Ellie and across the car park in a shot, she was somewhat surprised as he approached her but when he explained we thought we might have her walking pole handle she was utterly delighted, it was indeed hers and she had greatly missed it the day before when coming off the hill. I retrieved it from our rubbish box and we reunited owner and handle.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">On the way home, we stopped by Ruthven Barracks. We've passed by so many times, but have never stopped and had a look, so today we did. We had a pleasant wander around the impressive ruins (mostly, but people...) before re-joining Ellie and trying to decide where to have lunch. We ended up in car park near Feshiebridge where we popped the roof and made coffee to go along with our sandwiches and biscuits.</span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-55364951199832217972021-07-12T13:06:00.000+01:002021-07-12T13:06:08.340+01:00Challenge Afterthoughts<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">If you have read the account of my TGOC21 <a href="https://gemini-challenge.blogspot.com/p/the-great-outdoors-challenge-2021.html" target="_blank">here</a>, you will know I suffered an unfortunate injury and had to retire from this year's event. It is not the first time this has happened to me, but I must remain positive and decided to make a few changes to try to ensure I can cross successfully next time.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The injury itself was caused by slipping as I tried to climb a boggy bank beside the Allt Innis na Larach. There is little that I could do to avoid that in itself, I did nothing wrong, it was just unfortunate. I did wonder though if my pack was lighter or less bulky if it would not have swung. And carrying a lighter pack is always preferable anyway, so I started to look through my spreadsheet of kit and examine it more closely.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I know the quickest way to save weight in a pack is to consider the biggest items first. I have already got a new down sleeping bag, it is super warm, doesn't leave my tent looking like I've been plucking chickens in the night and weighs less than a kg, so I am happy with that. I have an Exped Sunmat UL7, there is no need to replace that. I have a new tent, having replaced my Terra Nova Competition with a Tarptent Notch. I could have gone further and bought a Li version, but didn't like the idea of it being see through. I have changed my light Exos pack for a heavier Ariel 55 AG pack, I need the padding on the hipbelt and harness and will not be changing it. The next item to consider would be my Jetboil Flash.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I adore my Flash, I have carried it on all my Challenges so far bar one, when I borrowed David's Flash Lite. It has never let me down, I only boil water for rehydrating meals and making hot drinks and usually manage to cross using just the one 100g gas canister. However it isn't a particularly lightweight system, at 426g, as I have to carry a mug to drink from so that adds bulk and at least another 116g, so altogether about 737g. I could improve on that.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">After some investigation and asking for recommendations, I decided an MSR Pocket Rocket was ideal, David persuaded me the Deluxe version was even better, so that is what I went for, at 83g. The Snowpeak pots I have would do the job, but the lid is a frying pan which I don't need and doesn't sit tight on the pot, so would probably be loose in my pack and annoying. I wanted a pot that was big enough to boil all the water I needed in one go, if necessary, and be used as my mug, to save taking a pot and a mug. After much thought and internet browsing, I suddenly remembered Alpkit and found they had the MytiPot 900 that fitted the bill, similar to the MSR Titan Kettle, but much cheaper.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Altogether, that would be a saving of 339g, if I took the same size gas. I would obviously need to be able to replace that as I crossed, so if I took a larger canister there would still be a saving of nearly 200g. I can make that decision nearer the time, depending on what the supply of gas is like next May.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The one thing that I worried about this year was my tent pegs. I didn't really consider these until the week of the Challenge, when it was too late to do anything. I realised that the MSR Mini Groundhog pegs that I love were perhaps not long enough to cope with the different forces on my new tent. There was nothing I could do, but I coped with the pegs I had , double pegging the main points and using the longest peg in my possession for the end into the wind. I don't know the origin or the composition of this peg, but I used it and survived. Mainly because there were no high winds. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I can replace these pegs, I will take four MSR Groundhogs, four MSR Mini Groundhogs and six Terra Nova skewers to help pin the ends out and the inner. None of this will affect the weight I am carrying much.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I need to consider my washbag, there may be more in there than I really need to take.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">If I can get nearer to the 11kg mark, or less, including food, I'll be happy.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">And in the meantime. I am already back to running to maintain and improve my fitness and I will start back on the yoga and strength training as soon as I am completely happy with my shoulder.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">All good.</span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-31913469757094701562021-07-10T17:39:00.008+01:002021-07-10T17:39:52.146+01:00Adventures with Ellie - West Highlands 28th May '21<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I had not run since my half marathon in the middle of April and in fact had done little walking, considering the Challenge was in a little over two weeks time, I thought a walk in my new boots would be a good idea. So we set off with Ellie to the North West Highlands and the car park for Beinn Eighe. There were quite a few vehicles when we arrived, we guessed a few of them were staying overnight, some with occupants, and some would have late returners from the hills.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had a pleasant evening, a few vehicles came and went, and we had some very late, very noisy, very rude arrivals.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We were off for our walk at a good time, just gone 09:00, which is early for us, but there were already plenty of people and we had company all the way there and back. We walked to Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair, far enough and rough enough to test the boots and the ankle. We were passed by many people as we walked, but we were just dawdling and pausing to take photos and practice my map and compass skills, as it had been two years since I'd used them and I can lack confidence.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We arrived at the loch after two and a half hours in time for lunch. There was a group already gathering on some handy rocks, so we found some more a little distance away on which to sit and enjoy our sandwiches. I sat watching a few people making their way up to the ridge, some took a more interesting route than others. 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Having decided we would return to The Fairy Lochs the following day, but that the car park would not be suitable to stay in. We investigated a perfect forestry parking spot by Loch Maree, but unsurprisingly there were signs asking people not stay overnight. I'm sure people do, but we don't want to be those kind of people. We investigated another forestry car park close by and there were no signs regarding overnight stays, and it was much quieter, so we decided to stop there. Once all the visitors to Victoria Falls had left, we were alone for the night. 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The path was well maintained, the waterfalls had a bit of water, there were nice views, and then we returned to Ellie. On arriving at the car park for the Fairy Lochs walk, I was dismayed to find the car park really busy. It had been a good idea not to stay there. A small group set off ahead of us, an older couple and a middle aged couple. Another young couple left the car park before us and we soon caught them dithering 100m from their car. The young lady asked us if they were going the right way for the walk, they'd left their 'map' in the car. I assured them they were and that if they got stuck there were markers to show them the way. They had been put off by the warning on the sign that they were heading in to dangerous country and that they should be prepared. They scurried off ahead of us. After about the first kilometre, we passed the first group, having a break. We exchanged pleasantries and continued. A short while later, I could see the young couple ahead of us, scrambling up beside what looked like a small waterfall. Now, we've been here before, many years ago when the children were small and we used to camp for two weeks at Gairloch, I did not remember such a scramble on this walk. I suddenly spotted a walk marker we were just about to walk passed and so corrected ourselves, taking us away from the approach to the scramble. It could be that the couple had every intention of going that way, but somehow, I doubt it. They were too far away to attract their attention. We continued on our way, greeting some walkers coming in the opposite direction, before reaching a gate in the deer fence.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">From here, we left the path as I wanted to bag a nearby trig. We crossed some fairly rough ground and as we reached the foot of the lump we needed to climb, we stumbled across the small group, looking a little lost and confused. David spoke to them, showing them where they were on the map and suggesting how they could return themselves to the path. They had probably unwittingly followed the route the young couple had taken and must have climbed the deer fence, which would have been fun for them. The easiest thing to do was to return the way they had come but not climb the fence, just follow it to the left to meet the gate, return to the path and visit the lochans. They seemed to be taking the advice as we continued. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It soon became abundantly obvious that I was not going to reach this trig, there was a small scrambly climb and I was so close, but I was very concerned I wouldn't get down again, so I returned to easier ground and waited for David. In doing so, I got to watch the group. They had ignored David's advice initially and tried to continue the way we had come, but with no obvious path they were unsure. There was much heated discussion and I'm sure some foot stomping, difficult in the soft ground they found themselves on, before they headed back the way they had come. We never saw them or the young couple again, the groups car was gone when we returned.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Once David returned, we returned to the gate and to the path and continued to see the memorial by the lochans. The route we know continues, but judging by the state of the path, most people (if they make it this far) turn around and go back. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It was nice to revisit, but far too busy for comfort. It was usually just ourselves on this walk.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We got back to Ellie in time for a late lunch, but decided to move on first, eventually stopping at the viewpoint overlooking Kinlochewe and Loch Maree. My goodness, a busy carpark! But we were only stopping for sandwiches, cake and coffee, so no worries. We were soon on our way home after a lovely weekend away.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 6.19km and total ascent 264m</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-49545180961749087702021-07-10T16:32:00.005+01:002021-07-10T16:32:52.513+01:00Adventures with Ellie - 12th December '20<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Another opportunity for Adventures with Ellie and we set off towards Drumnadrochit and then continued to the forestry car park at Balnain, near to Lochletter, at the time part of the Forestry Stay the Night scheme. We had a nice quiet evening, at some point joined by a car, but we never saw the occupants, maybe they were fishing at the loch? Anyway, we woke to another damp day and set off to be tourists for a change.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">First port of call was the chambered cairn at Corrimony. I have walked close by a few times, but never called in. I knew it was worth investigating though, and as my ankle was still healing, this was a short walk to test how it was feeling.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We parked Ellie and made the short stroll to take a look. It is a huge pile of stones. But if you read the sign there is a lot of information and it was obviously quite an interesting find. We walked around the cairn and then crawled through the tunnel to the centre and tried to imagine how it must have once looked.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheo7kRajrAwu4Oqczs0wnmXyeZ-NvOyHL6So1FCj6xbIyaQpYTEg6BPrhoijPXrmo-oqWRwpUn4VLgd_XmWMRuiXdYAQdaGjbDlth0-eSEs5ivx5pfd4ErTfZPJwMKe5p71UTg2NZwNLg/s2048/PC122684.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheo7kRajrAwu4Oqczs0wnmXyeZ-NvOyHL6So1FCj6xbIyaQpYTEg6BPrhoijPXrmo-oqWRwpUn4VLgd_XmWMRuiXdYAQdaGjbDlth0-eSEs5ivx5pfd4ErTfZPJwMKe5p71UTg2NZwNLg/w300-h400/PC122684.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UZGXl6mk7J_8dR1K7XEZWP7ZV6Bn8fbQFy_QX7PSCuAg5z2jvZwyqBsn4mBuhHWjoJhkkz9Axxk52DULrHIQqVw231PZoa0C5JXa5rDHYAwF6LabD2Fxc-jECsYARQLGYqYZPGAfHDY/s2048/PC122685.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UZGXl6mk7J_8dR1K7XEZWP7ZV6Bn8fbQFy_QX7PSCuAg5z2jvZwyqBsn4mBuhHWjoJhkkz9Axxk52DULrHIQqVw231PZoa0C5JXa5rDHYAwF6LabD2Fxc-jECsYARQLGYqYZPGAfHDY/w300-h400/PC122685.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdySDDUrZtfcsSLszhJKCyZXM3SgeYgusGoiPNZj-z7zOC3-gLY8ZUcgkRDsIP_PFx1swgRjO3jBLKcqlsOLgSEMNeEF-ra7qkTJXKwRbVTjivEwRifb-3wtyP2eDK87ulGb4O4iQM0M/s2048/PC122686.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdySDDUrZtfcsSLszhJKCyZXM3SgeYgusGoiPNZj-z7zOC3-gLY8ZUcgkRDsIP_PFx1swgRjO3jBLKcqlsOLgSEMNeEF-ra7qkTJXKwRbVTjivEwRifb-3wtyP2eDK87ulGb4O4iQM0M/w400-h300/PC122686.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTztzCefFyMAlgN9ZP5tqkQojCpi35cmiHFgCXZTCEckGcOYKhDoA5ePiZPkzk3sNO3Z0FxPRvsXZUUWEIuOBr7ogGEvDZRl4a2GjKoGMtZrRmfQae5M-VokbjKPyfYN9vfVtMnxYwLAE/s2048/PC122687.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTztzCefFyMAlgN9ZP5tqkQojCpi35cmiHFgCXZTCEckGcOYKhDoA5ePiZPkzk3sNO3Z0FxPRvsXZUUWEIuOBr7ogGEvDZRl4a2GjKoGMtZrRmfQae5M-VokbjKPyfYN9vfVtMnxYwLAE/w400-h300/PC122687.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQW7SQ8vxpJotiqZynF-tv4XiY06JfO07TGcweHeha-KLmgDnX0tSo14jRwv_1bO-4H9s72urreVVrgWOASAZFSr9B2HD98OQRRT61ANy-zkQ0jUxuytmnfYS6SFs-nIqAv34_m8_iLM/s2048/PC122688.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQW7SQ8vxpJotiqZynF-tv4XiY06JfO07TGcweHeha-KLmgDnX0tSo14jRwv_1bO-4H9s72urreVVrgWOASAZFSr9B2HD98OQRRT61ANy-zkQ0jUxuytmnfYS6SFs-nIqAv34_m8_iLM/w400-h300/PC122688.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">After this little stroll, we returned to Ellie and continued our tourist travels, this time to Plodda Falls. Again, we have been in the area so many times, but have never visited the falls. We had lunch before setting off, gingerly. This was quite a test for the ankle, as the path is a typical woodland path, undulating, rocky, tree roots, rutted and slippery and sloping. We took our time and really enjoyed ourselves. The falls were looking good after all the recent rain, there is a good viewing platform to see them from, but I wasn't keen to get too close. We continued the walk and met people that were taking the short walk from the car park, rather than the whole 2.66 km. We were taking this tourist nonsense to the extreme.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmbpwRPdsBEDwuzdDkYYRKafcSMiC63pacPZBePvt3cw0YE7vVoE571bIkIMy2-q0tKOeaLLarr0wG0sFo4VCbiEBC70yUIZbEme32TzPjlW1Anz_83n8rvXa2IqKU49FggyamrERSsA/s2048/PC122689.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmbpwRPdsBEDwuzdDkYYRKafcSMiC63pacPZBePvt3cw0YE7vVoE571bIkIMy2-q0tKOeaLLarr0wG0sFo4VCbiEBC70yUIZbEme32TzPjlW1Anz_83n8rvXa2IqKU49FggyamrERSsA/w300-h400/PC122689.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqBwqaulpoQUtHNtkMTl5I06KuGjF0GDjZjnnuC7TphHJXNg2YP8jQdkOltkmsVOnpbqyGS1hxAeAGGJQBlGV5SyUyuUWcIQvLjHe9nvgyvusSHLHAoUe4OKOKFizepXwQh8c_16HlxMs/s2048/PC122690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqBwqaulpoQUtHNtkMTl5I06KuGjF0GDjZjnnuC7TphHJXNg2YP8jQdkOltkmsVOnpbqyGS1hxAeAGGJQBlGV5SyUyuUWcIQvLjHe9nvgyvusSHLHAoUe4OKOKFizepXwQh8c_16HlxMs/w300-h400/PC122690.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAXaRHK9miM6U8TIX7SzVZsJuu3oMPlTmW5eMoMYB8jDypj6lGscA5DPMLcQUmZaXyz_iG412kSJg8eJJ6MXmcgEdUnyepe5A_wNxr6T9YTjri_b6XYl0Ze9m3e6brQICYuAJ-WfLonGk/s2048/PC122691.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAXaRHK9miM6U8TIX7SzVZsJuu3oMPlTmW5eMoMYB8jDypj6lGscA5DPMLcQUmZaXyz_iG412kSJg8eJJ6MXmcgEdUnyepe5A_wNxr6T9YTjri_b6XYl0Ze9m3e6brQICYuAJ-WfLonGk/w400-h300/PC122691.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKW1blhzr2UiwtLBf8TszP2cq7jTRCakuXkjWjjRqQYIeHo6NsC6l0doPHpiuQiDz1_cPe_7xGkvNhLoY-EWqhmJu8QHigMKix-nQrff9eT4Ow4yMlS4J2n-AOwrvfa9LWmkZDmi_6BM/s2048/PC122693.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKW1blhzr2UiwtLBf8TszP2cq7jTRCakuXkjWjjRqQYIeHo6NsC6l0doPHpiuQiDz1_cPe_7xGkvNhLoY-EWqhmJu8QHigMKix-nQrff9eT4Ow4yMlS4J2n-AOwrvfa9LWmkZDmi_6BM/w400-h300/PC122693.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElH7V2DWdSIC9gM2DpWitKmMKTYODY2Fdu8_N4JTFfISn28xhbo4tJJR7_O3-GbPIkM7oaf4BdsZArTyzlgFwOoJsb90Z0SgJgPyTnlRhxFtEk5DPFPNs8hqeKDtajyWL20eg29WfMqI/s2048/PC122694.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElH7V2DWdSIC9gM2DpWitKmMKTYODY2Fdu8_N4JTFfISn28xhbo4tJJR7_O3-GbPIkM7oaf4BdsZArTyzlgFwOoJsb90Z0SgJgPyTnlRhxFtEk5DPFPNs8hqeKDtajyWL20eg29WfMqI/w300-h400/PC122694.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">On our return to Ellie, we needed to find our next stopover. We headed to the southern shore of Loch Ness via Fort Augustus. We considered a few spots, including the forestry car park at Farigaig, also a part of the scheme, but it seemed a bit dark and damp and definitely no view. As the toilets were closed due to Covid, there was no advantage to us staying here, so were returned to the road just south of Whitebridge to park in a rather attractive layby.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had a rather pleasant evening.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">And then returned home the next day.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 2.66km and 120m total ascent</span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-690019235974470602021-07-10T15:53:00.000+01:002021-07-10T15:54:16.956+01:00Adventures with Ellie - Cairngorms 11th November '20<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had an opportunity for a couple of days away with Ellie, and although I had badly sprained (or broken) my ankle out on my long run on Sunday, we decided to go anyway. We drove south to Newtonmore and parked at the end of the road near Allt a' Chaorainn. We had a lovely quiet night alone before heading to Garva Bridge, the plan was for David to bag himself a Munro, Geal Charn, in the mist and murk, and I would stay with Ellie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I had a lovely quiet time, I pottered about and did some crochet and went for a little stroll over the bridge to take photos, had lunch and pottered some more. Just before David returned, some men in green appeared from the hills with a big radio, and disappeared along the road.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEA8CRuoUmWPaNEeYwJMEAPKpueBaQbzG5QLNIuALLOCaVjSJdvVMyWmRXpa9fur4xtQiV-sz77k_gM4lRdnGSVHA7cQYPXCJXKyxZ8guU3DzQKqXUIUcxM0Jq7JSrQ3z0lZQQpsDrGo/s2048/PB122680.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEA8CRuoUmWPaNEeYwJMEAPKpueBaQbzG5QLNIuALLOCaVjSJdvVMyWmRXpa9fur4xtQiV-sz77k_gM4lRdnGSVHA7cQYPXCJXKyxZ8guU3DzQKqXUIUcxM0Jq7JSrQ3z0lZQQpsDrGo/w400-h300/PB122680.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKhk_GRTTz6hppeil1QQQVRX3VRhTz2b7tGCHJxPB6fR9FY-PTIK7CeotYMXHSYXZzbHPOJ9mzTG0cFekYI4WKYOhAkAorHTCf8OR0bqlcmdIeEK-FsJBP0ZdrvgsYX0m2s6SMuRFxBM/s2048/PB122681.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKhk_GRTTz6hppeil1QQQVRX3VRhTz2b7tGCHJxPB6fR9FY-PTIK7CeotYMXHSYXZzbHPOJ9mzTG0cFekYI4WKYOhAkAorHTCf8OR0bqlcmdIeEK-FsJBP0ZdrvgsYX0m2s6SMuRFxBM/w400-h300/PB122681.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-rz-uVizZ0P_ZjIo9ZJvCoJdBzA148HSR8RS6JyBiGqx5ipPSZjpr-co8VvvVqNsRXwEgUOyO0TYpIkGA-obbZHYjm-iQ-SMKG6ZW7XHhLlw3VlHLbcCra3HATUfFje2umPS5Eoy0vA/s2048/PB122682.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-rz-uVizZ0P_ZjIo9ZJvCoJdBzA148HSR8RS6JyBiGqx5ipPSZjpr-co8VvvVqNsRXwEgUOyO0TYpIkGA-obbZHYjm-iQ-SMKG6ZW7XHhLlw3VlHLbcCra3HATUfFje2umPS5Eoy0vA/w400-h300/PB122682.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">David returned, a little damp around the edges, and we headed off for our second night, this time at Uath Lochan. Here, we were not alone, but we still had a quiet enough evening and night before heading home the next day.</span><p></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-57726827729316527512020-09-06T16:13:00.001+01:002020-09-06T16:14:16.446+01:00Adventures with Ellie - West Highlands 28th August 2020<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Friday afternoon saw us driving west with the intention of parking at Kinlochewe. We arrived to find an old VW campervan, what turned out to be an associated car and several cyclists camping already and a lady wearing PPE cleaning the toilets. There were a few vehicles that came and went early in the evening, the occupants mainly using the facilities but some using the recycling and bins. Another couple arrived and we watched as they prepared their new Range Rover to sleep in and then visited the pub to get hot water in takeaway cups to make their Pot Noodles. Clever, I thought. We had a relatively quiet, comfortable night, once the traffic eased. In the morning, we were in no hurry as we were waiting for the local shop to open (we went to the wrong one in the end, who knew Kinlochewe was big enough to boast two shops) in order to purchase lunch and breakfast items for the next two days. then we were off for a walk. The young couple and ourselves appeared to be the only ones to leave a donation in the box.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We made our way to the car park further up the road in order to walk the Beinn Eighe Mountain Trail. We did this walk 14 years ago with young children (ranging 5 to 10 yrs old) and whilst we'd had a nice walk with good weather, fine views and a Palmate Newt, I had had a little trouble with a short section of the walk making me extremely anxious. David's plan was for me to do this walk again in the knowledge that, having done it before, I would know I could do it again... On arrival at the car park, it was quite busy with people that had obviously stayed over the night before, most of them having canoes or kayaks with them. Their vehicles seemed to be stuffed full of all manner of equipment.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We set off on a path that took us underneath the A832 and through pretty woodlands, making our way steadily uphill. Views were snatched through trees until we crossed a bridge and then broke through the treeline and the ground became steeper and more rocky.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYrK8ninHio3OacFw_Ett1r8LbOp-nmJ7u5yxPrIOACvxsG99vspNtwPsa4KGBjH8vfNCaB1amX0nVtS0fJkMjYbqknQVWidEVW1fK0SJ_sOgb6TpQRw7aEo4APSgaWDTbm5HVn5_7Ikw/s2048/P8292636.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYrK8ninHio3OacFw_Ett1r8LbOp-nmJ7u5yxPrIOACvxsG99vspNtwPsa4KGBjH8vfNCaB1amX0nVtS0fJkMjYbqknQVWidEVW1fK0SJ_sOgb6TpQRw7aEo4APSgaWDTbm5HVn5_7Ikw/w400-h300/P8292636.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>On a bridge we crossed<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Where David could walk up, maybe occasionally resting a hand on a rock to lever himself up a high step, I found myself making three points of contact on most of this section. Towards the top, I had to give myself a serious talking to, I'd done it before, I could do it again, that sort of thing, but I did not enjoy the experience. I was happy to pause and rest whilst the two couples walking together passed by, we had a brief chat. There were two separate couples and a family that also passed by as I rested further up, but they weren't being drawn into any kind of a conversation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> It was over soon enough (seemed like an eternity...) and the walking became much easier again as we finally approached the viewpoint. Which was quite busy. It was also quite chilly in the wind, so I said I'd prefer to walk on a little further to drop down and perhaps find a little shelter, the group of four having nicked the best spot at the top. The path levels out for a while, winding around little lochans and with great views of the surrounding hills. At the first point we would have stopped, a young couple started to fly a drone. The whining was very irritating. We walked on. The group of four caught us up and passed us again, complimenting us on our shiny boots. I had cleaned and waxed mine the day before and did David's at the same time, I told them I don't normally and wouldn't be making a habit of it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We found a place with enough shelter and somewhere to sit a little further on and stopped for lunch, enjoying the views, but we didn't stop long. I had been looking forward to heading downhill and returning to the warmth of Ellie, but the downhill became tedious and somewhat wearing. Nice views, but really went on a bit. We talked about how it might be a good route up, but I felt the scrambly bits would not be pleasant to go down. Shortly after, as we were getting closer to the Woodland Trail walk, we met a couple coming towards us, dressed for urban walking and carrying shoulder bags. They weren't chatty. Then a middle aged couple passed us, the next couple however joined the path ahead of us just passed the viewpoint (no view now the trees have grown) they sat on a convenient bench to let us pass, they spoke and we shared a joke. I looked back and the second couple had turned back and joined our path, I believe the first couple had also missed their turn and were making their way up hill further than they had intended, their tourist leaflet clutched in their hands. Oh dear. I hoped they realised in time.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIoWhPGyxFxeBh3VSz1-aX7fxYNF8llGBMcZzZLb8iRzVZlTEV_vSkdPFPcwsVjZeAfMlprBQs01mNd0Pj1IBr6_CHJDi5HB5jTwEudyTIsUYzQvqbrsFfpBIq-obx2aG2AXXQrorb7Q/s2048/P8292655.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIoWhPGyxFxeBh3VSz1-aX7fxYNF8llGBMcZzZLb8iRzVZlTEV_vSkdPFPcwsVjZeAfMlprBQs01mNd0Pj1IBr6_CHJDi5HB5jTwEudyTIsUYzQvqbrsFfpBIq-obx2aG2AXXQrorb7Q/w400-h300/P8292655.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Looking back</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWKwIb0BjcRuKL4c_4f5KFi058hKxv15UD30AKW17VzrpAC3PHR4CQQzseuzC8R2jL9x9W3h0veTY0c8Pz539WxXVK-7o8wfTilBt7G1DUhFP8KFD7LTTnbI9f8MEsNP8mIgPoVBX4w0/s2048/P8292656.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWKwIb0BjcRuKL4c_4f5KFi058hKxv15UD30AKW17VzrpAC3PHR4CQQzseuzC8R2jL9x9W3h0veTY0c8Pz539WxXVK-7o8wfTilBt7G1DUhFP8KFD7LTTnbI9f8MEsNP8mIgPoVBX4w0/w400-h300/P8292656.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5gA7aoKuWdJ3okxIPGyiWMgHWw7ImEkm9jDnydJjZYy8mcvjZhoetXUbZDL-4EOweJEBaXD3ZalOo61rYiWaeGOPort-jGWVDpT2bCQwxEdrXFJ5F6nEXg8WzHwbtxbRB5fWPvWtUnA/s2048/P8292657.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5gA7aoKuWdJ3okxIPGyiWMgHWw7ImEkm9jDnydJjZYy8mcvjZhoetXUbZDL-4EOweJEBaXD3ZalOo61rYiWaeGOPort-jGWVDpT2bCQwxEdrXFJ5F6nEXg8WzHwbtxbRB5fWPvWtUnA/w400-h300/P8292657.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPUT9YAiT8W7mzaJeUtZLvJKP20A7KvN-vXacEQ9pf_deuWFYe3YOcXJoXmguB8-vO_mZrjavpjIAZu8uODORRMYIHbDzaFBMpdfLacgDbZDgj8Px8Zi3hGw2A-XQsdAYfMvtiTLPqtvM/s2048/P8292658.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPUT9YAiT8W7mzaJeUtZLvJKP20A7KvN-vXacEQ9pf_deuWFYe3YOcXJoXmguB8-vO_mZrjavpjIAZu8uODORRMYIHbDzaFBMpdfLacgDbZDgj8Px8Zi3hGw2A-XQsdAYfMvtiTLPqtvM/w400-h300/P8292658.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Loch Maree<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: justify;">We arrived at the car park to find it was very, very busy. Our friendly group were there and David managed to get into a conversation about Ellie. I had been sitting inside in the warm, but felt I should go out and join them. We chatted for quite some time, the women were travelling in a car, the two gents were riding Harley</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: justify;">Davidsons. One of the women had never been in Scotland before. She was so curious about Ellie and how we managed with her, we persuaded her it's a fab life and I think she was sold!</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We left the car park heading back towards Kinlochewe and then headed off towards Torridon, the plan was to park beneath Beinn Eighe in order to walk to Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair in the morning. The single track road was incredibly busy and I began to think we might be making a mistake. We arrived at a car park and drove in. It was nicely away from the road and would have been quiet, but it sloped quite badly. We thought we could wait a while and see if any of the cars left and we could get a flatter pitch, but this wasn't the car park for the start of our walk, so we moved on to the next one. It wasn't far a long the road, but as soon as it came into view, I knew we would not be stopping there. It was full, there were cars parked along the verge and in passing places, and there was a stag standing in the entrance, drawing quite a lot of attention (NB. I would not stand that close to a wild stag with large antlers) We passed by and managed to get turned, then returned the we way we had come. We returned to the first car park, but I was not happy. There were one or two spot we could have parked as we got neared to Kinlochewe, but they weren't far off the road and we decided we might just as well return to the previous night spot.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It was busy. There were motorbikers with tents, a couple of backpackers and the campervan and associated car were still there initially. We parked up and later were joined by a (hired) motorhome and at least two other cars and another old VW campervan. The first one and the car left and their places were taken. It was so busy!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had already had a gin by this point, so had dinner, put the blinds up, pulled the boards over (it's warmer on a chilly night with the roof popped) and settled down.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 6.4 km 602 m total ascent</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Most people left before us in the morning. Noone else had made a donation. They had, however, left the men's toilet in a state (David said) and someone had nicked all the toilet paper from the ladies toilets...and I only saw one other lady...(I don't think it was her)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I was not happy with the idea of adding to the problem at Beinn Eighe. It was crowded and it just seemed silly going there, the mountains aren't going anywhere, so we made another plan, heading first to Achnasheen, then north to Ullapool and on towards Knockan Crag. We stopped for lunch and to see the state of the toilets (one user at a time, lock yourself in at the main door, suited me!) which were good, so we decided after our walk we'd spend the night here again. After lunch we continued north, passing Elphin, Inchnadamph and onward to reach a walk to Britain's highest waterfall, Eas a Chual Aluinn.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">There were a couple of vehicles at the overflow car park but only one motorhome in the main car park where we parked. It was midgey, so there was very little messing about as we got ready and set off, picking up the old A894 briefly before taking a vague, boggy path away from the road. We met and crossed the outflow from Loch nan Gainmich. Here we found another vague path, boggy in places, and followed it till we crossed Allt Loch Bealach a' Bhuirich. We soon realised we'd been on the wrong path, which explained the couple we'd seen shortly before walking above us on the hillside, and crossed it back to pick up the correct path heading up hill, following the burn. The path left the side of the burn just before reaching Loch Bealach a' Bhuirich, where we met another couple, before reaching the bealach and heading downhill. The landscape was rocky and almost lunar in nature. We followed the river that had a series of waterfalls before leading to the main one. The ground varied, there was mostly a clear, well made path, sometimes it was boggy, and there were some big steps to negotiate. Towards the end there were peat hags, where we met another couple and their dog.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikexd6F5mI0PO0sJo30bxcGf4J0bH8ciYtYFR5qar-JPK12DL3ms-32r8obyeXAfRdxGisFVWMAvw45-2ckZCUbg5_AHfs5ZNhOKR9uPMqPRYXtLkyFK6OBvReqNdNCcQSp2bhoytNKJE/s2048/P8302660.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikexd6F5mI0PO0sJo30bxcGf4J0bH8ciYtYFR5qar-JPK12DL3ms-32r8obyeXAfRdxGisFVWMAvw45-2ckZCUbg5_AHfs5ZNhOKR9uPMqPRYXtLkyFK6OBvReqNdNCcQSp2bhoytNKJE/w400-h300/P8302660.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div>Looking towards Quinag</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPRtILP2TGMqRkfZYMwoR9SyNDK5UDWZZBpNtcnBvAEIdRwtbORNr_WwIGL23tGHntAPCnif8t0ATh64K0vJi3pLVi8NTSmiXyGx03yw4N3o2SlcCVoxI7fhK0ALAkeviLjw8fLTMKh-E/s2048/P8302661.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2nur09mkGWbDO3Ka0pQrUPt1PekNbfvz3DF_FGXrbsGwOyFZm_dKhyQix4vA5sqhLEqIU05M_qxPj-sdOxFGDwc-pHZ42NKZBrkqlMp2sZDAcJyfD0ZjjqlGdkA0n0BLMdFiohg4Ag70/w300-h400/P8302671.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div>Lovely waterfalls</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: justify;">It felt as if we were walking off a cliff edge. I did not like it. David tried to coax me further, I was less than happy, but eventually screwed up my courage and managed to clamber down a little further to a flat area where I felt safe enough to enjoy the views. I didn't want to stay long, however, and we had to make our way back. There seemed to be an unfair amount of climbing, but we reached the bealach in good time, passed the loch and headed downhill. This time, we had no intention of taking the wrong path and found it quite easily, it was a good path all the way. A bit boggy in places. Like the bit David plunged into up to his knees. Whoops! We walked on until we reached the outflow again where he took off his boots and socks to wash them out. Then his trousers.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfedHkOZgWY0FfbtsM1gLW__DWyUspOXkhCKgnNt1Iewv9fpEUukW3Kz741ogd3vIA5rb-Se9zqfPf0_llXzf7fw0O9UJrS_1HJOsGfPQbvgwHnvvJ4-Sw2Ts8waQaqQEH2eLdVgafbDQ/s2048/P8302672.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfedHkOZgWY0FfbtsM1gLW__DWyUspOXkhCKgnNt1Iewv9fpEUukW3Kz741ogd3vIA5rb-Se9zqfPf0_llXzf7fw0O9UJrS_1HJOsGfPQbvgwHnvvJ4-Sw2Ts8waQaqQEH2eLdVgafbDQ/w400-h300/P8302672.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>River leading to Eas a Chual Aluinn</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOaNE4x4gVwACoXvidh_7ZO84CJ8qDlWnALlnQu9j4Sopr_XHdjbgeEc2lJ1QLzFeMytPpI4FS3x-fVAWq6UMNa4EPDqwdbqEqODManFRM2tV5X9yCp9Hb77eKOgwAyKK-ymhRMx1ytw8/s2048/P8302673.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeBfWwyJ7lPYbyHn2KTpJgrYaNE2OqArn45ECdqGr1lxrl5Z0RfDAqdm-3Ac4FV8k9wtIesgNOY9orl-g2ShMAosY6nrjYUrutF9NEn-LIyRmyXhTdkM6hjN0lSk126f_IzR9v73PXF4/w300-h400/P8302679.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I think it was at this point I got bitten by midgies, although not as bad as two weeks previously the night we spent by Quinag. We made it back to Ellie, quickly sorted our boots and packs and then headed back to Knockan Crag. There were just three other vans when we arrived, one of which was parked in a very territorial fashion, side on and awning pitched. We were joined by at least two other vehicles overnight, one of which was a Volvo car and they made much noise with slamming of doors late at night and early in the morning, but we had another good night here before making our way home the next morning, without another walk as we had originally intended.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 10.4 km and 531 m total ascent</span></p></div>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-81444014147882554182020-08-23T13:52:00.000+01:002020-08-23T13:52:17.275+01:00Adventures with Ellie - NE Cairngorms August 2020<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We set off on Tuesday morning and headed for The Cabrach on the way to The Buck, a little hill we'd intended to do last autumn, but hadn't been able to park because of snow. We headed back and were the only ones there when we arrived, apart from the guys in tractors in the field opposite making hay whilst the sun shone. We both decided to use the outdoor facilities, one at a time. David got away with it, no sooner did I find my spot than another car drew up! I waited for them to leave. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Eventually we were ready and we too headed for the little hill. Having climbed a gate, we followed a vague path until it was no longer any use to us, then cut across wet, boggy, tussocky ground to the fence line where there was another path that would take us all the way up hill. We could see the couple ahead of us, we gained on them slightly the whole way up. It's a steep little hill, goes on a bit, but you're soon at the top and there are good views. The couple were hogging the easy route up to the trig, so we had to scramble up the back of the trig, whereupon they promptly left.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It was quite breezy up there and a bit chilly, so we didn't hang around long, another one of those days when you pack your lunch with you, but take it all the way back again to eat. We followed the couple down and it soon became obvious that the young lady was not a seasoned walker and was being a little girly in her technique. She may have sat down a bit smartish on a couple of occasions. Not something I ever do, obviously...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3bCT7svLEZRbzj3oCsWyUxeFTEnzVUBS3unqoH9sP8Tb334JNey1jl9dwOyrQu8zTphv_aREMpHdM3YCmQ4SOBIT5cJa-CvSXXcbv7RghR6qLH_c18sXuZuHNL7TrXlmh-q3zmNdk1c/s2048/P8182587.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3bCT7svLEZRbzj3oCsWyUxeFTEnzVUBS3unqoH9sP8Tb334JNey1jl9dwOyrQu8zTphv_aREMpHdM3YCmQ4SOBIT5cJa-CvSXXcbv7RghR6qLH_c18sXuZuHNL7TrXlmh-q3zmNdk1c/s640/P8182587.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Typical kind of ground</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzdTzHsz52YWWwAmwbyrNmWwAwmcdLzxsyb1P0x9Ce5ncNGkZxqej2vb6GJeAOuIJCebn_BjRegV_W2s7CFXcNWsZsxX1aLPCmWW8c5_3892oDcO2H4Qhh-LeJ7l4Zbq8oPmWbTGGCXc/s2048/P8182588.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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On reaching the point where we had intended to cross, we had a conflab and decided the ground straight ahead was just as rough but took a more direct line to the road, so off we went. It was mostly fine, but the heather did get a bit long at one point which I'm not a fan of, I do like to able to see where I am plunging my feet, deep holes are a nasty surprise. Much to our amusement, the young couple decided to follow us, we must have seemed to know what we are doing. How we laughed. Especially when we veered away from the fence line on a slightly high bank and had to scramble down to reach the road. I don't think the young lady will have liked that. Ooops. Still, a lesson learned at some point by all walkers, never follow someone because they look as if they know what they are doing... </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Once at the road, we legged it uphill, passed the gate and back to Ellie, where we changed our footwear, ate lunch and checked our route to where we'd decided to stop for the night. We wanted an open spot with a bit of height, in the hope of avoiding a million trillion midgies, having just about got rid of the mass of dead ones from Assynt trapped inside the air conditioning. Yuk.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 4.86 km and 321 m total ascent</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We were headed for Our Layby above Ballater which we approached from Kildrummy and Stathdon. We were delighted to arrive and find that, once more, we would have the layby to ourselves. This is the only place we have ever been beeped as people speed by, this time by two vehicles, one of them an estate vehicle *sigh*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had a lovely evening and a quiet night followed by a lazy start to the day, we had a walk planned but with no time pressures can really take our time and chill. David did another deliberately visible litter pick, although again, there was actually very little. Eventually we made our way to the car park at Corgarff Castle (currently closed due to Covid-19) We made lunch, changed into our walking boots and set off on a circular route to do a little hillbagging. Not long after we left we could hear a shoot in progress, but fairly confident it was in the hills opposite our intended target, we continued uphill. There was a momentary confusion as to which of hills visible to us was our intended target, but I was pretty certain it was ahead of us and not to our left. I was right.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Our route took us up towards the bealach between Carn Oighreag and the west top of Brown Cow Hill. Not surprisingly, it was a fairly continuous climb up hill, initially on a good track, but then off to follow a vague path across open ground. A bit wet in places, but not as rough as a lot of hills we walk. We made steady progress and soon reached spot height 823 m, followed by 829 m and then Cairn Sawvie where we decided to just drop slightly off the top and pick a soft mound to sit on for our lunch. There were ravens again, we've seen quite a few on our travels so far this year. We had wonderful views of Ben Avon, Beinn a/ Bhuird, the hills above the Lecht and towards Lochnagar. We lingered a while before heading off again, down to the bealach and then up again to reach Meikle Geal Charn, following an electrified fence all the way, down to the next bealach then up to Little Geal Charn where we crossed the fence to reach the spot height, returned to the correct side of the fence, when we spotted two people walking off the hill behind us, but they disappeared from view, presumably heading for the track beside Meoir Veannaich. We think they may have cycled in, stashed their bikes along the track and just made a quick out and back to bag the Corbett. Then we were off down and uphill again to reach the Well of Don on the way to Cairn Culchavie, the last high point. We disturbed a small group of young red deer stags, being downwind of them, they were aware of us but couldn't quite decide what we were. They dithered a while before making off over the side of the hill.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwpoDCkm4L68BtqvP2zvXbKDsx17mL4R97-BwKq9Zx_MNY7eG4fv4tu_3w_yngRvJUUsZTF_ycXoe-Zq9sh344Nv08ZxU2viA_w9gel_oyNsUxumJKqO0_zdjpapUOsOTfGqjPPOdP8E/s2048/P8192597.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwpoDCkm4L68BtqvP2zvXbKDsx17mL4R97-BwKq9Zx_MNY7eG4fv4tu_3w_yngRvJUUsZTF_ycXoe-Zq9sh344Nv08ZxU2viA_w9gel_oyNsUxumJKqO0_zdjpapUOsOTfGqjPPOdP8E/s640/P8192597.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Corgarff Castle</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ihbyzPNmA-xtPegSQJpCjUbStbBH-05ChBkLf4NrjcP2KAnR5RD3Cnzo-DNsQ3mZpL94hKAZRKRh28AZqNFXROSB0SNMOftFBUW1t3fANC0QR8rznwiFl6FxDcTMt7HaWGbR4t_sqH4/s2048/P8192598.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ihbyzPNmA-xtPegSQJpCjUbStbBH-05ChBkLf4NrjcP2KAnR5RD3Cnzo-DNsQ3mZpL94hKAZRKRh28AZqNFXROSB0SNMOftFBUW1t3fANC0QR8rznwiFl6FxDcTMt7HaWGbR4t_sqH4/s640/P8192598.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">We followed a vehicle track to cross an inconvenient crop field, probably for animal fodder</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-8g_DcPvxCPUlqJK3F5aT44IN1vNEYvSyJjE600CYtRbua9sO90aeQ_T4nXAVejjA_asAD2c7fqBguq6KdwRCzpIHiTzKWtMVdQOPftqg4VAqkdFwguAS5twLXpKPC2262E8PNL36y-Y/s2048/P8192599.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-8g_DcPvxCPUlqJK3F5aT44IN1vNEYvSyJjE600CYtRbua9sO90aeQ_T4nXAVejjA_asAD2c7fqBguq6KdwRCzpIHiTzKWtMVdQOPftqg4VAqkdFwguAS5twLXpKPC2262E8PNL36y-Y/s640/P8192599.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Purple heather clad hillsides. The little notch on the skyline is probably between Carn Leac Saighdeir and The Ca, made by the Delavine Burn</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMxSAMxAgTZOSEbgyYEGXclP475oZO4BrWl41zRnLo51DYK_zup83DX9CJivjQj-HoCjNGecVx8CDSojIUAiuEoBeahjBh1gqOCNBUndHusXXG7R8HWWlhEKCB2aNhBWHwsFtluAUhmw/s2048/P8192600.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMxSAMxAgTZOSEbgyYEGXclP475oZO4BrWl41zRnLo51DYK_zup83DX9CJivjQj-HoCjNGecVx8CDSojIUAiuEoBeahjBh1gqOCNBUndHusXXG7R8HWWlhEKCB2aNhBWHwsFtluAUhmw/s640/P8192600.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPR_Af-jZcsmdLM-uFa7gnv-_Jlz33pmo2pCEW8IVbCQaA51CmYHixX23vpMrpGM8fIMgf0H8k5x15B8XQB-n-TbDkkNAsdAcxL27I1XPALHgWia5D1_NkEnHGBGHvxvmylrNlXZyELw/s2048/P8192601.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Helped, I think, by the perfect weather and good going underfoot. Loved it!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The forecast for the next 24 hours was of rain and high winds, so as there were no signs to indicate we couldn't stop here, we decided it was a good place to be and we settled down for the evening. There were a few vehicles that passed us, one or two estate vehicles, but nobody bothered us. A few cars and a campervan visited whilst we had our dinner, but they only stopped briefly, got out to photograph the castle, then left again. At some point during the evening a vehicle parked up across the glen, facing Ellie, with their headlights on. A bit odd. Nothing came of it. We had a quiet evening followed by a wet and windy night, as expected. We heard a vehicle draw up in the night, but it wasn't until the morning we discovered it had been a car, the occupants of which had slept in their vehicle. They were no bother. More cars and a motorhome drew up, but again, just briefly to take photographs, before leaving again.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">David did another deliberately visible litter pick, again there was barely anything, then we left, heading for a Graham to save me detouring my next Challenge route to bag it. We parked by the road where I had met Ian for coffee and second breakfast on last year's Challenge, donned our boots and an extra layer due to the breezy and cool conditions, then set off up the track. As we looked back, another car arrived and parked with Ellie and two walkers set out after as. This was another walk where most of the height is gained at the start of the walk on good tracks, before heading off to follow the fence line and vague trods to the first named hill, Scraulac. A short downhill to the broad bealach, then up to the next high point, Cairnagour Hill. This was followed by a steep downhill to a peaty bealach, then a short sharp uphill to Mona Gowan. Here we were greeted by the most unnecessarily huge cairn, we rested a while taking photographs before being joined by the first of the two walkers that had left after us. We chatted a while to the young man who was from Huntly and was intending to walk the entire ridge to take in Morven, along with his walking partner (his father we think). It was really nice to meet cheerful, chatty, friendly folk on the hill.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHix7NP75XsS0o3nK3veG1Wj0452IhyphenhyphenoChGZfVdZbQeQhrAHemOLKPCvELPqxihGpdxjy-e4U_vXaQ_ucelQ817h6g8VMUgBzfWbY7fPWM3YQ_mubEyg0-l2CDxKLZFgnhtiLDWufzm0/s2048/P8202622.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHix7NP75XsS0o3nK3veG1Wj0452IhyphenhyphenoChGZfVdZbQeQhrAHemOLKPCvELPqxihGpdxjy-e4U_vXaQ_ucelQ817h6g8VMUgBzfWbY7fPWM3YQ_mubEyg0-l2CDxKLZFgnhtiLDWufzm0/s640/P8202622.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Making our way up hill</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq508Mqr1AeJvsdulXtmRw3UE4isOdxZKJKxQ7gggjquE7FaLyAz30SmQlFA_XquFO8rSBEl6ghqc6I0wIIcpIzt2NWPddvWdp1G2JTWeTKq6WTP4dZ7GnNzwh15TFGeAzZeP2kiY0tas/s2048/P8202623.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We were soon back with Ellie where we decided to have lunch when we'd reached our overnight destination, Ballater community campsite. We knew the facilities were not available other than the grey and black water disposal and fresh water, but that was all we wanted and were quite happy to support the local business. We also popped to the Co-op for a few fresh items before relaxing with Ellie and just chilling.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">After an uneventful evening people watching and feeling like the poor relation amongst all the caravans and motorhomes, we had a good night before another relaxed start to the day. We planned to stay until it was time to leave the campsite, then be tourists on the way home via Tomintoul. The weather was a little grey, damp and uninspiring, so we didn't stop until we reached The Well of the Lecht, where we pulled in to visit the iron ore mine. It's a popular stop off, I've seen big family tents pitched by the side of cars here and was not surprised to find fresh tent shaped flattened areas of grass by the river, but disappointed to find lots of litter, mainly wet wipes, discarded by the path all the way to the mine and back. David collected everything we found in a Mountaineering Scotland Tak it Hame bag, again in a very deliberately visible way, which he was able to put in almost empty bin in the car park. This time, he had a large audience, as although we arrived to an empty car park, four vehicles soon joined Ellie. Most were friendly, the old lady with her dog stopped dead, in the middle of the track, apparently fearful to move. Very odd. And awkward to get passed. A couple at the car park seemed to be having a photo shoot, in the rain, she was sitting amongst the purple heather and he had a very long lens on his camera. I do hope she did a thorough tick check.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNwPk7p0yEcVJL3GReGZBpsD7iJ3r-nC0iweCwGjxfnpQgpVs2vXqYpSB-Jho_dW6b5q-i2COBIY0QtLcc8OZm4jea5_k3LCyvBdJlxYeGbsJ0n_nmCneM923gPn2VLrcx6Q8AgwTHe0/s2048/P8212632.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNwPk7p0yEcVJL3GReGZBpsD7iJ3r-nC0iweCwGjxfnpQgpVs2vXqYpSB-Jho_dW6b5q-i2COBIY0QtLcc8OZm4jea5_k3LCyvBdJlxYeGbsJ0n_nmCneM923gPn2VLrcx6Q8AgwTHe0/s640/P8212632.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfNmJRaFfItGB4fTjbi-s3j_77XQm_N3QkX-fbixTh6tsVeQqnDhzd34vQtbFr8v6u8cm33pHq1TPLwLW_o1Owp2ZQXq-eHTb-yVvEHbkQ9P32ugfzKriWH6_KLmHWsHY0gMeA6an8zM/s2048/P8212633.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfNmJRaFfItGB4fTjbi-s3j_77XQm_N3QkX-fbixTh6tsVeQqnDhzd34vQtbFr8v6u8cm33pHq1TPLwLW_o1Owp2ZQXq-eHTb-yVvEHbkQ9P32ugfzKriWH6_KLmHWsHY0gMeA6an8zM/s640/P8212633.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Then mine, nestled in the heather clad hills</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnSwoJ_18rkYtfdjASnYp_ZsG3sXJ-6nTJmKghZFB3jNFTa_dOcf2L_5ZL9x3ieImnXXV2ItIBftR3VAK74j8cxa7Ys2AdV-eJYABRziNpZ7axdaP7XXXkG_e6W-O8p0CIfr6W8ad7JM/s2048/P8212634.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnSwoJ_18rkYtfdjASnYp_ZsG3sXJ-6nTJmKghZFB3jNFTa_dOcf2L_5ZL9x3ieImnXXV2ItIBftR3VAK74j8cxa7Ys2AdV-eJYABRziNpZ7axdaP7XXXkG_e6W-O8p0CIfr6W8ad7JM/s640/P8212634.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDX2OmN8F8e7Q_Se6i2a3_frDG_dTkl2Ui0tS9866HiV_tTiYm6lFdcdUTlPZ0gZnnA7zDMrKMzSOd5Hbxf_ahfAHeMKIJaXvR0bags0A98g4UPpzG0oZ1VoOCQf5P8caBd3sBPJTYHpM/s2048/P8212635.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDX2OmN8F8e7Q_Se6i2a3_frDG_dTkl2Ui0tS9866HiV_tTiYm6lFdcdUTlPZ0gZnnA7zDMrKMzSOd5Hbxf_ahfAHeMKIJaXvR0bags0A98g4UPpzG0oZ1VoOCQf5P8caBd3sBPJTYHpM/s640/P8212635.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 1.45 km and 71.6 m total ascent</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We continued on a bit further to Tomintoul where we stopped for lunch before reaching the end of our journey. We had a fabulous trip, loved it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-27249271351488108942020-08-23T10:23:00.002+01:002020-08-23T10:23:21.072+01:00Cnoc Fyrish<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>We had the opportunity for a walk and having driven passed Cnoc Fyrish and being intrigued by the monument, that was our target today. We dropped one car off to have some work done and took Ellie, who is proving very convenient for day trips hill walking. We arrived at the car park shortly before lunch and it was already very busy, not surprising but a little unnerving. We had lunch first before off. It was a dull day with low cloud, but it was warm and humid, which led to a rather moist ascent.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span>We met so many people coming in the opposite direction, I felt over-dressed and over-prepared with my walking kit and day pack. Ho hum. We toiled uphill until we reached the top, where we wandered around the monument a bit until the clouds briefly cleared to reveal views over the Cromarty Firth. The monument </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">was built in 1783 by Sir Hector Munro - the local laird. He had been commander of British Forces in India, and defeated the Dutch at the Battle of Negapatam. On his return to the Highlands the Clearances were underway and many people were starving. After the fashion of the time famine relief was provided only in return for work - it being feared that feeding the starving would make them lazy - and the construction of the monument was one of the tasks given to the local destitute. It is a replica of the gates of Negapatam, to enhance Munro's glory.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOUdsk6yDwfdbX9UijzTHiOLNuJb5PdD7HmKRCbUyTjbE_UHQcpyJffTsNVHHxN1jCzeOv2Fdw6yCCroo7Z_vv8ZJqcw9QG7kTLDk6DMsa_QfGVkkkhd9c2QGwD22G1QW4SFGV4tuClY/s2048/P8142578.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOUdsk6yDwfdbX9UijzTHiOLNuJb5PdD7HmKRCbUyTjbE_UHQcpyJffTsNVHHxN1jCzeOv2Fdw6yCCroo7Z_vv8ZJqcw9QG7kTLDk6DMsa_QfGVkkkhd9c2QGwD22G1QW4SFGV4tuClY/s640/P8142578.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGZEjPtTJcwR4QhaZbRw-7CYWDODI0tkj7JFgztUwthylMSI4NBfQ79WbYKbETokp7Ts5K87rFwI9rSeNltkWYlna9x60eafCi4V6YEjVfsHa2ubwMbgOmPBphEBfSjV0XmkW1nRAHsE/s2048/P8142579.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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By the time we returned to the car park, the car was ready for collection.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 6.34 km and 291 m total ascent</span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-27198413924510098362020-08-22T21:49:00.000+01:002020-08-22T21:49:09.957+01:00Adventures with Ellie - NW Highlands August 2020<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: trebuchet;">If this year had been what we were expecting and hoping for on 1st January, we would already have had several adventures with Ellie, but this is not a normal year. It wasn't until the beginning of August that we found ourselves in a position to go away, so we started following the forecast and beginning to get ready and pack. At the first opportunity, Ellie was packed, and after a short delay (caused by having the other car serviced and not able to pick up until later than expected) we headed off north over the Kessock Bridge. The original plan was to stopover at a Forestry and Land Scotland Stay the Nights spot, but when we arrived at Strathrory, we were not impressed with the sloping site, despite having our new ramps with us. There were just too many midgies to be faffing about with them! So we set off again for a place we had checked out previously at Rosehall. It's a rather sweet little car park and turned out to be very quiet, we were the only occupants over night, but it is obviously popular with dog walkers and runners in the evening and morning. Nobody seemed bothered by our presence and we did a litter pick in the morning in a very deliberately obvious fashion. We also discovered that although David had switched on the gas the previous evening and also the fridge, there was apparently no gas in the morning. This could not be right. David religiously records the weight of the gas canisters before and after each trip and knew this one was still quite full. After a little logical thought and fault finding, we concluded the most likely problem was a faulty gas regulator, and the best solution would be to return home, get a new one and then try again. So that was what we did.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">By later Tuesday afternoon, we set off northwards again, but this time got as far as the John Muir car park at Quinag. We had passed many campers, mostly car campers but a few vans too, at Ardvreck Castle. It is really quite sad to see.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">When we arrived at the car park there we found a comfy spot with nice views and decided to stop. There was one other vehicle parked, but we guessed it belonged to a day walker and sure enough, they soon returned and left in a hurry, mostly due to the millions of midgies.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Seriously, millions and millions of midgies. Millions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We had a reasonably good night, in the morning, the gas still worked and we had coffee with our breakfast. Several cars arrived. A family faffed in the first, applying lotions and potions before exiting the car and leaving only to return to take the keys from the ignition and lock the car, them return again to fetch something else from the boot before finally heading for Quinag. A young gentleman sat in his car a while transfixed by his mobile before eventually leaving the car with an insulated jacket slung loosely over his arm and his phone and external battery in his hand, going the opposite way to the family before pausing, turning round and following their route. Another car arrived, I think the lady filled her car radiator with water, pottered about a bit, then drove away again. David did a litter pick, but there was next to nothing.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Having seen the millions of midgies the previous evening and in the morning, and no hint of a breeze, we decided not to continue with our plans to visit Britain's highest waterfall, Eas a Chual Aluinn, as it would most likely be unpleasant, but instead head for the coast and hopefully a breeze! A quick peek at the map and a walk was spotted that was not only coastal but took in a trig point, bonus. We also decided to drive a road we'd not been on before and headed north to pick up the B869 and follow the coastline via Nedd, Drumbeg and Clashnessie, before heading to the car park near the lighthouse at Cluas Deas. Once parked we had lunch before heading off in to the murk to follow the clifftop path.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It was quite a busy little walk with plenty of people and many dogs, but not all made it as far as the Old Man of Stoer. In fact, only two other people that we saw definitely made it that far, a pair of climbers. We saw noone else after seeing them make for the cliffs until we got back to the car park. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMtRLXz47RdCqiYvYJOtknXkTvuCfNrrGfwHh-jCg_SVi7qd2RciJVjbSKOSgRXtKk3B6saXVaGFqMsXyKKNSFgq8wfx-6mHh1NhVICCDvNVQ6L5D6QZZOwL3RxgOsYDczRLlwNJPmkM/s2048/P8122562.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMtRLXz47RdCqiYvYJOtknXkTvuCfNrrGfwHh-jCg_SVi7qd2RciJVjbSKOSgRXtKk3B6saXVaGFqMsXyKKNSFgq8wfx-6mHh1NhVICCDvNVQ6L5D6QZZOwL3RxgOsYDczRLlwNJPmkM/s640/P8122562.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Spot the lighthouse</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnSO99iI0AXf24NN1r5alGJpPUk3_FX55WQvqYzMoGQ22-476KNUO6ZCbYfGYary8_bxlrPIcwi4pEtOzt6UM5i_duk7z-lWiIypXwSzr7MNi87ftYUbCYozcUiff3ubiP4E54mSWey98/s2048/P8122563.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2d0l4fFzDS8ZExMpUUkKByzuYbE_qeWD_TJL45QghVm7SYTj-4R6QlVH9cIeCdufN02PlfdCS97BQHNFbax57Ct1Y1tClRaicFoAUg62HQfQxWKk9OvodO0uN_RvZiPif3IrAhLrx1xA/s640/P8122572.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Looking back</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgskGkHcrd7RszwigSfLcMRjbb0TyyyeKeKYH0SvJ_CyNWwhQyCvul3EiK842wRqguiaVJLj1hPj9ZmYx2zhAbIRnq1tPvwh2ELBN7TCpgdMvvMavslmlguSKfmpb06OmQhlnb4qT5OHPw/s2048/P8122573.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgskGkHcrd7RszwigSfLcMRjbb0TyyyeKeKYH0SvJ_CyNWwhQyCvul3EiK842wRqguiaVJLj1hPj9ZmYx2zhAbIRnq1tPvwh2ELBN7TCpgdMvvMavslmlguSKfmpb06OmQhlnb4qT5OHPw/s640/P8122573.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">There it is! The Old Man of Stoer</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48dNZcoa3mj0VbHTdZ_eloonNOWCtYCXeMv9ibXXUjtrSM-WHYZ9c5uJabFdIHW9EaQJpYvNmKsxTvTYR07OVCuKNNv3F7nKixoUEgCTG_FQv6kaV2qmVZUnWcTYOIJzTacM5gjdihok/s2048/P8122574.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48dNZcoa3mj0VbHTdZ_eloonNOWCtYCXeMv9ibXXUjtrSM-WHYZ9c5uJabFdIHW9EaQJpYvNmKsxTvTYR07OVCuKNNv3F7nKixoUEgCTG_FQv6kaV2qmVZUnWcTYOIJzTacM5gjdihok/s640/P8122574.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Instead of returning the way we came, we continued to the Point of Stoer then headed uphill and inland to the trig at Sidhean Mor, accompanied briefly by a pair of ravens. From here, we picked up a path that avoided most of the bogs and past a small lochan. A lonely red throated diver was swimming there. We continued and picked up the track below a mast that returned us to our start point.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvAiu8a4vebydTAguI10g5RofxkY9cZTdMMYGke5qRkWslY2E4wGgih8D-wxrDTKMjmMB1WonLhzs90R_tdASdfiKXfSNyelROsUCjxosXW6DxEORyRj6vChLJ2fI4QuP1K1ftTk81zw/s2048/P8122575.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvAiu8a4vebydTAguI10g5RofxkY9cZTdMMYGke5qRkWslY2E4wGgih8D-wxrDTKMjmMB1WonLhzs90R_tdASdfiKXfSNyelROsUCjxosXW6DxEORyRj6vChLJ2fI4QuP1K1ftTk81zw/s640/P8122575.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The trig</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxiEikqr0gmnyacATu80hkaNugs3TZn5BaOI9woLTGF7xWpAjTqbpcPBkRvMaE-RqZ5ooEEEU3SFvpTMnZ2XAEN4aYIVvzPIqahphsp1NOX1lSebWDE5AwqTiDKA0utwrQSlECs7S5CqQ/s2048/P8122576.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxiEikqr0gmnyacATu80hkaNugs3TZn5BaOI9woLTGF7xWpAjTqbpcPBkRvMaE-RqZ5ooEEEU3SFvpTMnZ2XAEN4aYIVvzPIqahphsp1NOX1lSebWDE5AwqTiDKA0utwrQSlECs7S5CqQ/s640/P8122576.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">All gone again</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqgVKyO7hDnmgeTqvKDOuMp92heN_x-JXeuAm0_NFjU8adJ4h418owZtrLVpbGf4HT-Yhce3MxDfaWk4CU38KJVmhz5fRQkiJcDXNMlWmCNchr9t8Jzf5L7WVlR-D5kq6vHowhXQr-zQc/s2048/P8122577.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqgVKyO7hDnmgeTqvKDOuMp92heN_x-JXeuAm0_NFjU8adJ4h418owZtrLVpbGf4HT-Yhce3MxDfaWk4CU38KJVmhz5fRQkiJcDXNMlWmCNchr9t8Jzf5L7WVlR-D5kq6vHowhXQr-zQc/s640/P8122577.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 7.13 km and 430 m total ascent</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We decided not to go too far to find somewhere to stop for the night and so headed for Lochinver before making for the car park we have stayed at previously at Little Assynt. Initially when we arrived there was a couple of cars and dog walkers, we were intending to stroll down to the toilets, but on reading the notices discovered (not surprisingly) they were closed, so returned to Ellie and waited for them to leave. We were soon joined by three other vans who all stayed the night and all left before us in the morning. It was a relatively quiet evening, we amused ourselves by comparing the set up of the two vans we could see, both VWs. Have to say, we prefer Ellie, they seemed to need to be in the back of their vans from outdoors quite a lot. The road, the A837, does eventually quieten down, but the traffic starts again quiet early. After the other vans left, David did a litter pick, just to be sure, but to be fair there was very little again.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The weather was not great and in the end, we decided not to bother stopping off for a walk on the way and just went home.</span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-45495054313932643222020-08-22T16:05:00.000+01:002020-08-22T16:05:06.392+01:00Carn Kitty<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">As .we were hoping to get away with Ellie soon and hadn't walked for a while, we thought we should take a little leg stretch. There is a hill close by, with a trig, that I've been meaning to walk for a while, so we decided this would be a good opportunity. I had thought a quick out and back would be enough, but was persuaded a circuit would be better, so off we went.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We parked at the bin compound west of Tomcork and set off up the track towards Rochuln. I have been in this area before, but several years ago, and it has changed a bit. Mainly it has been clearfelled, but also, there has been a windfarm built here, so tracks are either over grown and unused or 'improved'. This track was well used to start with, but became less so. As we approached Loch Dallas, the track deteriorated, as I remembered, and became deeply rutted and rough. I know I'm not keen on this track, so the challenge is to remain positive and upbeat. It takes longer than I expect to reach Loch Noir and it's smaller than I thought. I was getting a bit peckish by now, but I wanted to save my snack until we reached the trig, so I drank a little from time to time to stave off any hunger pangs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO_PPEY0gCF7eNcIUCHqXa3oQcefOzgEDZFus_Af8ba81TmLbheRRvkKzzba_sRacj_cqxPm05rJrCG6voIpEZPb3TcOcMhm3WyPdbU6PYVYdrrF80XWnG-J0qL9uxAULCnRh_qDMVrg/s2048/P8082547.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO_PPEY0gCF7eNcIUCHqXa3oQcefOzgEDZFus_Af8ba81TmLbheRRvkKzzba_sRacj_cqxPm05rJrCG6voIpEZPb3TcOcMhm3WyPdbU6PYVYdrrF80XWnG-J0qL9uxAULCnRh_qDMVrg/s640/P8082547.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Looking south towards the Cairngorms</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We took photographs and enjoyed the view whilst eating Hula Hoops, a mini Soreen and an apple. We took a different line off the hill, heading for the nearest turbine to pick up the track. From there, we headed back to where we'd initially picked up the track and headed down hill.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHeZ5DKqloTV296POD1PhHHRkP2YqH_c6-3Zd-PXWxpJdzdWKOa1DA8uNA83rwRQrYnRFb8RZbdnC2IZv-IG7zh87-ziWGdhgYQ6_skj_FajxH8A0zmkFW_k_Aj8MfWc_c7HD5do-eBbc/s2048/P8082557.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHeZ5DKqloTV296POD1PhHHRkP2YqH_c6-3Zd-PXWxpJdzdWKOa1DA8uNA83rwRQrYnRFb8RZbdnC2IZv-IG7zh87-ziWGdhgYQ6_skj_FajxH8A0zmkFW_k_Aj8MfWc_c7HD5do-eBbc/s640/P8082557.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Cloudberries. 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After a while, we met with the new windfarm track again and continued along it passed Berryburn Farm and towards Tomcork. I was not impressed to find young cattle in the field we were now walking through, a cow and her two calves were in the field adjacent were quite excitable and this stirred up the youngsters. As we walked towards them, they herded together quite nicely, clearing the way to the cattle grid, until the moment I fell. Less than a kilometre to go, and I throw myself at the ground. Typical. David gave me a hand up, by which time the cattle were a little more spread out again. I just wanted out of the field now. We walked as far over to the fence as we could, made it to the cattle grid and I almost ran across it to freedom.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">By the time we were back with Ellie, I was feeling tired and a little sore. It was a good day and good practice.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Roughly 20.1 km and 423 m total ascent.</span></p>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-3624759599389289802020-07-09T21:10:00.000+01:002020-07-09T21:10:04.721+01:00Lockdown Easing Walk<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Laura and I have not walked in a while, but as Lockdown 2020 is Easing, now felt like a good time to get together for a stroll. It seemed a good idea for us to each travel a similar distance and we settled on an area both of us have driven by but neither have walked, Dulnain Bridge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As often happens, one of us was early and the other late, but I found Laura waiting patiently at the car park off the High Street and after a minimum of faffing we set off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the High Street we followed the road towards the Skye of Curr, walked along Fraser Road until we left the road to take a woodland path signposted Old Laundry Path. At a crossroads, we took the path along the River Dulnain and continued through lovely woodland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After about 1.5km, we reached a quiet road which we followed until we passed the Heather Centre and met the A95. This was the only uncomfortable section of the walk, a brisk pace was set over the next 200m along the verge until we found the little stile. After climbing the stile we found ourselves on what remains of the old A95, pleasant, but with the noise of passing traffic until the track headed uphill away from the main road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">April 2019 saw us celebrating our Silver Wedding Anniversary, so we hired a campervan to have an adventure in Scotland. We spent a lovely few days on a whirl wind trip around Scotland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After the second half marathon distance in April</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dornie Castle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Silver Anniversary</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the first of three Munros, Carn Aosda</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Little did we know that we would be the proud new owners of our own van, Ellie, the following month. David sealed the deal and collected her whilst I was completing my 7th Challenge in May and he came to meet me so we could spend our first night together with her just a little south of Corgarff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had a successful and enjoyable Challenge, partly because I am much fitter, we had completed half marathon training mid-April, in fact, we ran the distance twice in two weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since May, we have tried to get with Ellie about once a month and we have had great fun and climbed many more hills than we usually get to do together. We were very pleased to have Ellie when David agreed to Assess a Gold Duke of Edinburgh group in the Ben Alder Forest when the weather was utterly dreadful and camping would have been no fun whatsoever. We have also been tourists around Scotland and had our first van meet with Mick, Gayle and Bertie in Inshriach Forest. Ellie has been a wonderful addition to our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In June, we took part in the Ghost Train Walk, an over night walk on the Summer Solstace following the Dava Way from Grantown-on-Spey to the Dallas Dhu Distillery. We have walked the route together before when it first opened in July 2007, and I did the first Ghost Train Walk in 2009 with friends, so this was our first long distance overnight walk together and we had a great time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In August, we took Conall to the Junior International Air Pistol and Rifle competition at Bisley. He had a good time and is doing well and gaining confidence. It is very strange to be there with just Conall though. There will be many more and much bigger competitions for him in the near future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In November we were treated to a two night stay at Fonab Castle for our anniversary, which was quite an experience, but the weather was not conducive to walking, so we sheltered at House of Bruar in between fancy meals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, we are really looking forward to many more Adventures with Ellie in 2020 and I am hoping for another successful crossing on the Challenge in May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The end of November and our last weekend away with Ellie before the end of the year. We set off later than hoped and decided to stop for a takeaway pizza on our way to the NW Highlands. This meant we could drive until we were ready to stop for the night and not to have to cook. We found ourselves parked at the Knockan Crag car park, again, for convenience (pun intended) and we had one other van for company. It was a cold night, but we were prepared with extra layers and sleeping bags, so we weren't cold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In the morning, we got ready to tackle Cul Mor once more, or at least to try, but as we packed our bags we realised neither of us had picked up a map. Whoops. We had a little discussion, both feeling a little uneasy to proceed without being fully equipped, but decided we both had Viewranger and that we would turn back if we started to lose visibility. Boots, jackets and hats on, we left Ellie and made our way to the footpath we had taken before. It was a nice day if cold, the going was good underfoot and we made good progress to the lochan, where we sheltered behind the rocks with another couple whilst they had lunch and we put on another layer. Soon we were on our way, the couple gave words of encouragement and we made our way back to the main path to make our way up the spur to Cul Mor. We met a photographer on his way down, he said the conditions were good and he'd had a good day. Onwards and upwards. As we reached the point I'd had to turn around last time, I put my head down and focused where I was putting my hands and feet (yes, I was more or less on all fours at this point) as I made my way up the little scramble. I paused every so often, but refused to look down, refused to think I couldn't go on, just took a breath and continued. There was the odd flurry of snow, but nothing more than that. I told David not to tell me he was nearing or at the top, not to tell me how far I had to go, just to let me get there, and I did just that. I eventually reached a point at which I realised I could stand up properly, so I did, and walked the short distance that remained to reach the trig. I was so chuffed with myself, I'd overcome my fears and powered to the top. The views were outstanding, this is an extraordinary part of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We had a quick bite to eat, but were soon off again as it was quite cold and we were going to be short of light if we hung around too long. We made our way over frozen but not icy ground to the bealach, headed off SE and picked up a vague path, then lost it and made our own way across the coire, contoured around Meallan Diomhain, then reached the path that would take us back to Ellie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Back at Ellie, we packed up and headed back towards Ullapool before turning off towards Stac Pollaidh. We continued along the road to Polbain and then on to Altandhu and the campsite. This is the first winter this campsite has stayed open and we had it to ourselves for the first night. The showers were not the warmest place to be, but the facilities are nice and at least I had hot water, the mens' were cold, apparently. We had a lovely quiet evening and a good meal, afterwards using the sinks at the pot wash to do our dishes (we have no waster water tank and draining on to the pitch would be frowned upon) and visiting the facilities before turning in for what was going to be a freezing night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We had a slow start to the day. We had intended to spend time exploring locally and to stay at the campsite for a second night, so once I felt well enough, we ventured to the little shop on site and had a chat with the lady at the counter. This is a small family run site on what was originally a croft and they’d had to diversify. The shop and the pub are owned and run by the family and the lady offered to book us a table at the pub for dinner when we enquired about eating there. We made our purchases for lunch and breakfast, took them back to put away in Ellie then put on our boots and coats to go for a little stroll. There was a small hill with a mast at the back of the site that happened to have a trig at the top, so we decided to head up there, the track most of the way would mean it wasn’t a strenuous walk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It was cold, but dry and we had a lovely walk. The track took us to the mast then there was a well used path all the way to the little knobble with the trig on top. The path actually continued beyond the knobble, but we didn’t want to venture that far. For some reason I found it really pleasing that this trig is obviously visited regularly by somebody quite local and I daydreamed and romanticised a<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">bout their reasons for doing so. We stayed for quite some time, enjoying the views, marvelling at the landscape, naming hills and practicing my scrambling skills. Then we made our way back to the track and to Ellie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We had a nice meal at the pub, even if the barman “Andrew” seemed a little uncomfortable and unsure as to how to serve meals to the only two occupied tables. The food was basic pub grub but was very nice and reasonably priced, we enjoyed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When we headed back to Ellie, we noticed we were now sharing the campsite with a much larger motor home, turn out to be a couple and their two small children (they left in the morning) but we didn’t really see them, they were mainly using the waste and fresh water facilities, which was actually good to see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After a good nights sleep we had breakfast of frozen yogurt (it was cold overnight!) and we were up and away early in the morning, stopping at the *shop for lunch, dinner and breakfast supplies, before enjoying the drive to Inverkerkaig where we planned to stop and take a short walk. We didn’t rush our journey and arrived at the car park just before lunch. We parked Ellie and made up a picnic to take with us on our planned walk to Kerkaig Falls. There was a car parked already, we didn’t see the occupants, another van arrived before we left and they parked in a very territorial manner, after parking in front of us they moved to take the space directly adjacent to the picnic bench before opening their doors just to allow the dog out for a roam. They remained inside the van.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We left for our stroll, taking the path that follows the River Kirkaig towards the Falls of Kirkaig. There is a good path all the way, albeit it gets more rocky and boggy the further you go, but it was largely frozen so the bogginess wasn’t too much of an issue. It didn’t take us long and we were soon admiring the falls from a safe distance (some safer than others…) before choosing our rocks to sit on and enjoy our picnic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We soon on our back to Ellie, returning the way we had arrived. We met a man with his dog off lead, oblivious of other walkers. We think he was the Territorial Van Man. We met two young men on an adventure, clad in city clothes, they asked if the falls were much further. It was going to be getting dark soon and they were not half way, so had about another two and a half kilometres before making the return walk. At least they would have torches on their mobile phones to find the path on their way back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">On our return to Ellie, we packed away and set off again, heading for Lochinver then further on to find somewhere to camp overnight. We eventually stopped at a car park and took a look around. We had parked at the Leitir Easaidh Walk Car Park and the signage was very welcoming. There were details of the easy access routes from the car park and there are two toilets within easy reach of the car park. It is a very busy car park, but we decided most visitors were actually local dogwalkers, so we knew there would be less activity once darkness fell, but that it could possibly be busy again in the morning (although, it would be Sunday and there is usually a strong church going community on the west coast, perhaps the dogs would have to wait until after Chapel! I was saddened to find some fly tipping at the opposite end of the car park, but we were happy with the views where we had parked Ellie, we even had a visit from the local wildlife and the traffic quietened down quite early.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We had a pleasant evening, a good signal allowed us to watch some evening entertainment on iPlayer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Roughly 6.82 km and 289 m total ascent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Late in the previous afternoon, my good friend Vanessa had messaged to say she was home if we would like to visit and as we were so close, I couldn’t resist, she is lucky enough to live in such beautiful surroundings, I was only too pleased to have the excuse. We were up quite early and were keen to make use of the facilities, as we had left a donation in the box provided, so we went for an early morning walk. The first toilet is only about 500 m along the path, but these toilets were closed for maintenance, so we walked to the second toilet a little further along. These are composting toilets and were kept to a really high standard, plenty of toilet roll, hand sanitiser and a floor brush. We decided to follow the footpath, it is really well maintained, but we had no clue as to its route. I wasn’t tracking on Viewranger, but these paths are not marked on the maps anyway. I was expecting a simple circular route, but we walked on and on as day dawned and the drizzle set in. We were not dressed for this, both of us wearing warm but not waterproof jackets and jeans, so eventually I had to admit the best option was to turn around and return the way we had come. On our return to Ellie, I read the leaflet I had picked up the night before and realised we had missed the turning for the simple circuit and were in fact heading to a second car park. That could have complicated things! However, we know for next time…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It’s a very scenic drive to Vanessa’s house, and what a stunning setting! (I imagine, clouds!) We had coffee and cake and a really lovely chat, the dog adored me, and I adored the dog (but I did have to do a complete strip once we had driven away, as I am very allergic *) and the cat also seemed very fond of David (…who is not known for his fondness of cats *laughs like a drain*)</span></div>
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Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05089530928216314797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926024504196068369.post-73620163256804546822020-01-05T19:16:00.005+00:002020-01-09T10:20:55.117+00:00Adventures with Ellie - East Grampians<div align="justify">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Thursday evening David said we should go away with Ellie Saturday morning, as he was on call for work on Friday evening. This threw me into a slight panic, as obviously I hadn’t thought we’d be going away, but a bit of last minute packing and planning saw us driving off the drive a few minutes past nine in the morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The best plan was to stay relatively close to home, so we headed slightly east before heading south with the intention of bagging The Buck. As we drove through The Cabrach there was an unexpected amount of snow, not covering the road, but deep enough in the laybys we were passing to cause concern. On reaching the parking at the side of the road for The Buck, it was immediately obvious that leaving Ellie there could be problematic, so without even pausing we continued on to the second hill I’d popped onto the list in case we had time, Tap o’ Noth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The car park is accessed from a very narrow lane, which has a very exciting turn off from the road, but Ellie is surprisingly nimble and negotiated both with no issues. There was a little snow and ice in the car park which had a sharp slope, but we were soon on our way on the marked footpath. The path was well kept and clearly very popular, also quite uphill from the start. Although this was not a big hill, the snow got deeper with the progress up hill, I did not envy the footwear of the chap we met on his way down, slippy, slidey canvas shoes. After about 45 minutes we were admiring the rather impressive vitrified fort at the top of this wee lump and bagging the trig. In between the drifting clouds, we could clearly see the deep snow a top The Buck, we decided we’ll save that for another day. After a bit of exploration, we made our way off the hill, back the same way we had arrived. A very enjoyable little stroll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Approximately 3.03 miles and 999 feet total ascent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Having returned to Ellie, we headed off to find more level ground to stop and have lunch, eventually stopping in a lay by near the junction of the A97 and the A944. Quite a nice spot, with some very lively cows in the field opposite providing some entertainment but a surprisingly busy road. After lunch, we headed off to find somewhere to park for the night, a treat to arrive in daylight and be able to see our surroundings. Except people had obviously stayed there before us and other people are quite disgusting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We woke Sunday morning to a bright but cold morning. Or at least, some of us woke, some of us had not slept enough to be wake and I started the day with a headache. The passing traffic had quietened down at around 22:30 the previous evening and apart from one or two vehicles that had passed during the night, it had not started again until about 07:30. As David put the gas on to make the first cup of coffee, it became immediately obvious that we were a little low on fuel. Very low in fact.. So low we ran out before the kettle had even boiled. Disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">So the day started with a Danish pastry and a drink of water. And paracetamol for me. We then drove about 1.5 km to the Bennachie Visitor Centre car park where we made use of the facilities, made sandwiches and got our walking our kit on. We were on our way by 10:00, which is quite early for us. It was a very busy car park, with dogwalkers and mountain bikers mainly, but also some early Sunday walkers. We seemed to leave them all behind once we left the main forestry, but we found many, many more once we’d made our way to Mither Tap. The walk was mainly on really good, well maintained footpaths, until we headed for the less frequented paths later on in the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Mither Tap, our first target, is a rocky, gnarly little lump with a trig point. We obviously approached from a less used route, of which I was glad there was no audience for my pathetic efforts at scrambling. As we reached the top, there were a couple already up there and as they left, a couple and their young, really underdressed daughters arrived. They must have been absolutely frozen as the wind had a real bite to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I had a moment of mild panic as we decided to head off ourselves. Despite watching the young family leave with little difficulty, it looked a steep drop to me, then David had a little slip on the smooth rocks as he took his first step towards the top of the rocky steps down and I bit back a whimper and tears filled my eyes. I gave myself a serious talking to and made my way to the same point as two young men bounded their way up. The second slipped and struggled slightly as he had shorter legs. This actually made me feel a little better. I chose to ease my way down on my bum for the first few steps, there were one or two higher ones to negotiate, but I made it and felt happier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Anyway, we reached Cragshannoch, nothing spectacular, and continued to our next goal, Oxen Craig. This was easily reached. We arrived at this gnarly little lump just as one large group left. We ducked down out of the wind to eat lunch and as we finished another large group arrived and we beat a hasty retreat. and then we headed off for Watch Craig. This where the path changed, it was obviously more frequented by the mountain bikers and was deeply rutted and eroded. We were joined at the top by a noisy group of four and we were happy to leave ahead them, hoping they would retrace their steps rather than following us, which they did and we left their noisy chatter behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We continued heading downhill on a trail more used by MTBs than people, but it was still progress. The weather had taken a turn for the worse, quite wet and colder, so we just plodded on for what seemed like an eternity. We knew we were getting closer to the car park when we started to meet people, a chap on a bike with his dog, a bedraggled couple, another couple with extremely well trained Beagles (unusual for Beagles, really head strong dogs!) and then several more. We nearly got suckered in to a wrong turn, but quickly realised our mistake and just about managed to put it right without anyone seeing, koff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Once back with Ellie, we got out of our wet kit and boots before stowing everything away safely for our journey home. I was glad to be heading back, but I my headache was quite severe by now and I was feeling quite grim. As the journey progressed, it became clear I was in trouble. I struggled for the entire journey home and barely made it out of Ellie before disaster struck. After struggling into the house, I crawled upstairs to my bed, where I remained for the next few hours before the migraine eventually wore off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The evening of Friday 11th October saw us heading to Uath Lochan in the Inshriach Forest, Cairngorm, after first attending the presentation by the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award Group David had assessed at the beginning of September. The presentation was very good, one of the best we've seen (not The best, they were by our groups) but we had a really exciting weekend ahead of us, our first van meet with Ellie! We were due to meet Mick, Gayle and Bertie in a car park deep in the forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had a quick panic just as we arrived at the entrance to the car park, what if there were many vans there? What if (to my shame) I didn't recognise Bertie?! Oh, the horror. Luckily, there were no other vehicles when we arrived, so that made it easy to find our friends. Plus, the step was out, so even before I saw Mick peeking out of the curtains at his new noisy neighbours arriving, I knew we had arrived before they had given up on us and gone to bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were immediately welcomed into Bertie, ushered in to seats and had a blanket tucked around our knees. We had steaming mugs of peppermint tea pushed in to our hands and the conversation flowed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mick and Gayle are well known to retire at a reasonable time, so I was very aware I should not keep them up too late, but it wasn't until we were getting Ellie's bed sorted on returning to her that I realised the clock I'd been checking in Bertie was still showing European time. Whoops! Still, it was plenty late enough and meant we stood a reasonable chance of not being horrendously late in the morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We weren't too late getting up in the morning, coffee and a chocolate pastry twist was had in bed before getting up proper, having more coffee and porridge/breakfast bar then we went next door. When offered more coffee and croissant, we didn't say no, so we it was a while later before sandwiches and crisps were put in to daysacs and we headed off for a walk. It was only a short walk to bag a nearby trig, but as Gayle had done more planning than me, she was made Walk Leader and we followed here everywhere. Fortunately, there were very few extra steps taken in the wrong direction either time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gayle and I took the lead and raced up the hill, not a big hill, but we both soon warmed up and contemplated removing an outer layer. I preferred to slow down a little so I could breathe more easily, but in reality, we neither peeled a layer nor slowed down, we just continued, engrossed in our conversation. This also means that, although we were aware of our surroundings and enjoying them, I didn't stop to take many photographs at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had been walking through fairly open forestry and some clear fell, but eventually the track entered the trees and we found the Vanessa trig in a small clearing with some convenient rocks on which to park ourselves and enjoy our sandwiches, supplemented with Jaffa Cakes from Gayle, my fave!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A cyclist and his dog passed through the clearing just as we were setting off again. We headed downhill on a steep, muddy, winding track. David and Mick heard another cyclist approaching from behind, we all stepped well off the track to let them pass and were all watching as he fell off his bike, claiming to be paying too much attention to us rather than where he was going. We all stifled our laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were soon back on familiar ground and retraced our steps around the loch to return to Bertie and Ellie, waiting patiently for us in what was now a very busy car park. We spent some time sorting Ellie and dressing for dinner before stepping over to Bertie where we once again enjoyed a very social evening and also a delicious curry, prepared by Gayle's own fair hand as we sat and chatted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We planned to run together in the morning, I had a 50 minute run to do as part of my current running plan and it fitted in nicely to give a morning activity we could all take part in and still chat. So after another really lovely evening, we parted company in order to get some sleep and leave at a half decent time in the morning. As we sorted the bed, I asked David why we had left quite so early as we had, only for him to realise he had been fooled by the same clock I had been the night before. Oh well, we should now be rested enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the morning, it appeared the car park had been busier overnight than the previous night, there were two cars and a VW van. The van was packed up and left early. We were away shortly after Bertie and before 9am. WE met Bertie again in the car park at Kingussie and after a small about of faffing and a visit to the public toilets, we set off for a gentle run along the cycle path to Newtonmore and back. It was without doubt one of the most enjoyable runs I've ever had. It was the first time in over fourteen years that I have run with anyone other than David or Ciara and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I would most definitely run with Gayle again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On returning to Ellie and Bertie, we spent a little time powdering noses and changing into casual clothes before again nipping across to Bertie, this time to be offered coffee and bacon butties. I mean, who could refuse!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was soon time to go our separate ways, we headed home and Bertie headed a little further south. We had a superb weekend and are really looking forward to many more van meets with Bertie, Mick and Gayle, thank you all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The middle of September presented another opportunity for an adventure with Ellie and as the nights were already beginning to draw in, we thought it might be the last chance for some good hill days, so we headed for the Fannichs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">David has been in these hills before, on at least three of them twice, but it was my first time. We were able to leave mid afternoon on the Friday and headed for a the first potential camp spot I'd looked at, but when we arrived I wasn't sure it was for us. Although it was off the road, it was below a dwelling and there were two cars already parked, probably waiting for their owners to return from the hills, so we thought it might be busy in the morning. As we decided to move on, we were able to see the nearby dwelling was in fact empty, but we were on our way by then so continued. The layby we found was away from the road and promised to be quiet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After a good night, we left a little later than intended to start our walk from the car park situated on the A832 at the start of the walk. We were hoping to bag a couple of Munros, given the good conditions. We were waylaid slightly before we set off by a couple of gentleman that had previously driven through the layby, then continued only to return and get out of their vehicle. They appeared to be lost and indicated to David they wanted to speak to him. It transpired they were heading for the same hills, but they only had a tourist leaflet for directions to the start of their walk which gave somewhat limited details. David did check they had a map with them, I know not why they were not using that to find the parking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once on our way, we soon discovered that the parking area was full! The two previously lost gentlemen had just nabbed the last space except for one small gap, due to some interesting parking. We did two drive pasts, looking for other parking opportunities, before deciding David was a very skilled driver and Ellie a very nimble vehicle, she could be neatly tucked in to the available space. She fitted perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There may have been a small amount of faffing before we eventually set off on our way. It was a warm, sunny day with a bit of a stiff breeze, I was expecting it to be windy and cool on the hill. We walked briefly along the road before taking a track through a gate that headed towards Loch a' Bhraoin. We took a small path weaving through woodland and then crossed the bridge over the outflow of the loch before heading along the glen and gradually up hill. We could see walkers heading up Druim Reidh, possibly the two gentlemen, but I hoped not as it wasn't the hill they were after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After about a kilometre, we had to ford the Allt Breabaig and as I had not planned this route, I did not have my fording shoes with me. The water wasn't too deep, but the rocks beneath were slimy and slippery and I didn't fancy my chances of teetering across, especially as last time David had ended up taking a dunk. After some thought and consideration and a little bit of pacing up and down the river, I decided I would have to boots and socks off. I was not thrilled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The water was shallow but icy cold and caused me serious pain in my ankles, but we both crossed safely and put our shoes and boots back on to continue along the lovely stalkers path heading up the glen. David had previously headed up to the bealach further along the glen, the route I had headed up shortly after the ford, we did neither and made our own way, probably actually lengthening the climb unnecessarily. We could clearly see two people and a dog ahead of us taking a break, we continued and passed them by and made it to the summit of Meall a' Chrasgaidh ahead of them eventually. I was briefly confused as I caught sight of two other walkers that appeared to be leaving the summit ahead of us and heading south for the second Munro, but we were joined by two ladies and their dog as we sheltered for lunch and it transpired they were the couple we had passed. We shuffled up to give them room to shelter along with us from the strong winds, along with their small but very friendly collie. We didn't share our food, much it his disgust. They were interesting ladies and we chatted a while, we talked about our local area and reassured them Moray is beautiful and that the noisy jets based close by are no problem. Another walker appeared and continued north along the ridge, barely acknowledging our presence. I started to chill despite having donned extra clothing, so it was soon time to leave the ladies in peace and head for the second Munro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The way downhill was not difficult, but it was steep, wet and tussocky and I managed to take a tumble before reaching the bottom of the glen, falling and landing head first downhill. In a fit of giggles, I struggled to get up and David was too far ahead to help me. I checked to see noone was watching and then continued downhill more carefully. We had to cross the river again, but I was pleased to take my boots off briefly as I had obviously not put my socks on well the last time and because my feet had been so cold I had not noticed until they'd finally started to warm up again on the downhill return. After crossing safely I was more careful replacing my socks this time. It was not long before we were back with Ellie. Well, after I took another tumble on the roadside.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">I didn't get more than one Munro on this outing, but it was still a success as I am now more than satisfied my fitness has and is continuing to be improved by my running plan and this is enhancing my experience on the hills and making my hillwalking trips with David more enjoyable for both of us. Just need to deal with the exposure thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On returning to Ellie, we had a brief discussion of our plans for the following day, which essentially, were none. So we had to make some. The weather wasn't overly promising for a walk, perhaps a tad breezy. We knew we needed some supplies, so we popped to Ullapool and once there, after stocking up, decided we would continue further north, perhaps to Knockan Crag to spend the night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We arrived at the car park to find two Belgian registered vehicles with roof tents parked around the back of the toilet block and two young boys putting up a tent near the entrance to the car park. I wasn't sure what the state the toilets would be in as last time we were here they had been abused and were a state. This time, I was pleased to find they were in good order. We enjoyed the sunset, watched Strictly, had a nice dinner with some sloe gin and prosecco and relaxed for the evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">We had a really, really windy night, I didn't sleep brilliantly, so the lesson is we need to find a more sheltered spot when we think it's going to be windy! Also, there were a few vans that came and went during the night that disturbed us, particularly the one that drove around the car park several times, obviously looking for the best spot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We stopped off to clean our teeth, I cannot remember why we hadn't already? Then we happened across a super little car park, with a shelter filled with posters and seating and a table, it was a lovely place I'm sure we'll be back. We eventually arrived at Loch Fleet and decided to park with a view over the loch and have lunch. There were a lot of birdwatchers there and I felt we were slightly out of place, but I got the big binoculars out so we fitted in better. We then continued along the quiet road to Dornoch to investigate the local toilets, which were open and clean. There looks to be plenty things of interest here if we are on a touristy trip again, but it's not somewhere I'd be likely to stay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the end of August we found ourselves heading for the Ben Alder Forest as David had agreed to assess a Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award Group. We left home with Ellie a little anxious as there was a yellow weather warning covering the area for the entire weekend, had it been our group, we would have cancelled, but on this occasion it was not our decision and in fact, nothing to do with me at all, I was along for the ride.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It took much longer to reach our planned destination than expected, partly due to the weather conditions. It was windy and wet. We drove a circuit of the car park on arrival, luckily there were only three or four other occupants and we all had plenty of space. I suspect Ellie had the most exposed position, but we were happy enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the morning, we made our way to the start of the expedition in the rain to find the two supervisors waiting to redirect us to the nearest parking spot. We waited for them to meet us there along with the participants, a group of five girls. After David's introductory chat, they were sent on their way and we retired to Newtonmore for some supplies before heading to Dalwhinnie, trying to maintain a phone signal in case the expedition was called off, as we were convinced it would be. At Dalwhinnie, we were on the look out for a place we could safely leave Ellie as we walked in to assess their camp craft skills. We found public toilets at the village hall where they were operating a community cafe, so obviously we popped in for a bacon butty, coffee and a pot of tea (I had the tea) The cafe was being run that morning by a very chatty gentleman, full of local knowledge despite not originally being from the local area and he was able to tell us of a safe place for Ellie. We loitered for as long as we could without being rude and then took Ellie to her safe spot. We reorganised a few belongings inside our rucksacks, not daypacks this time, we were carrying more than usual, and took plenty of warm layers, sandwiches, stove and dehydrated meals in case we got waylaid and needed something hot. We donned our waterproofs and set off underneath the railway line and along the eastern end of Loch Ericht and then along the northern shore towards the Ben Alder Lodge. I'd last walked this route two years ago when we supervised my Gold group on their expedition, the conditions were similar although my group only had a day of grim weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the Lodge, we headed for Loch Pattack, where we were hoping to meet the group and find out how they'd been getting on. We walked a little further than expected but soon found the supervisors surveying the ground the group intended to pitch. It was wet. We stayed and had a good chat and catch up until the group arrived and then we watched them pitch and start cooking their meals. After about two hours, we decided we needed to head back to Ellie to avoid getting caught out in the dark, although we did have headtorches with us, I just can't see so well in the dark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ellie was waiting for us, safe and sound and we decided to head straight for our overnight stop rather than eating first, we had an easy start the next day, in no hurry to head off, so didn't matter if dinner was late and I preferred to be stopped for the night so we didn't have to pack up again. We went back to the Creag Meagaidh car park in the hope it would be as quiet. In actual fact, it was even quieter and we had another peaceful night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Looking towards Loch Pattack and the hills beyond as we headed back to Ellie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the morning the weather was still not great, so we killed as much time as we could whilst maintaining a signal, just in case we were needed, or the supervisors needed to get in touch with us with a change of plans. We had booked two nights at a campsite for a change and were able to book in to Bunroy Campsite in the afternoon. A nice, quiet little campsite, I could have lived without the piped whale music in the shower block. Still, we made full use of the facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We received word that plans had had to be changed due to the flooded burns and waterlogged ground, but they were still intending to continue. We had already booked train tickets to Corrour Station to walk in and meet them, hence we'd picked this campsite, but these plans had to be changed as they were re-routing and we would now have to walk in from Inverpattack Lodge to intercept them for a catch up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After satisfying ourselves all was well, we decided to complete a circuit rather than return on our outward route and eventually met the path we had walked on our previous visit here. We revisited Pattack Falls as we thought they may have more water than last time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was another wet morning and we set off knowing the girls would be only to pleased to get this expedition over and done with. And so would we to be fair. It had been a wet old few days! We set off to park near Moy Lodge alongside the supervisor's car and to have lunch whilst we waited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In time, the supervisor who owned the car appeared, had a chat, left some gear in his car, then left again. Eventually, both supervisors appeared, chatted, put gear in the car, chatted some more, then the drowned rats appeared. We chatted, then David chatted to the girls and put them out of their misery. I have never heard a group cheer more loudly when told they'd passed.</span></div>
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