Sunday Dec 30 |
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| Day 3 of the JOK New Year trip. Rested to try and rid myself of hip pain. Of course, I picked the only day which had dawn-to-dusk clear skies. The others did the Coire Lair horseshoe. |
Saturday Dec 29 |
| Hillwalking long (Munros) 7:30:00 [3]** 21.2 km (21:14 / km) +1200m 16:33 / km | |
| slept:6.0 (injured) shoes: Hillwalking Boots |
| Day 2 of the JOK New Year trip. Ascent of Slioch from Kinlochewe (10m). The first (and last) 5km were along a fairly level path beside Loch Maree. Ed and I took a wrong turn here and ended up on the wrong side of a raging river - the Abhainn an Fhasaigh. We eventually crossed it above a ravine - this was a tricky crossing with a strong current, and we got very wet. We then climbed up into the high corrie surrounded by Slioch, joining the others again - and into the mist and stinging hail. The section through the corrie was pretty nasty, however the hail stopped as we climbed steeply onto the ridge and then onto Slioch's twin summits - no view, windy and cold with some snow on the ground. We then followed an interesting narrow ridge, and then dropped steeply back down into the corrie, and back home. It was completely dark by the time we got back. My hip, injured from yesterday, hurt a bit, especially on the higher sections.
One Munro: Slioch (980m). |
Friday Dec 28 |
| Hillwalking long (Munros) 4:30:00 [2]** 17.5 km (15:26 / km) +750m 12:42 / km | |
| (injured) |
| First day of the JOK New Year trip. Stopped off on our journey north from Edinburgh to Kinlochewe, to climb a couple of Munros E of the Drumochter Pass, from the A9 near Dalwhinnie (390m), walking with Ed, SGB, Phil and Jon M. Route took the good stalker's track up to near the col between the two hills, walking to the first then doubling back and to the second. Descent was a suprisingly sharp ridge on the NW of the latter hill, beeside the Allt Coire Chuirn. Conditions were cold, with thick mist above 600m, and no view from the summits. A little snow on the ground. Unwisely used my walking pole going up, which hurt my hip for the next couple of days.
Two Munros: Carn na Caim (941m) and A' Bhuidheanach Bheag (936m). My first since April 2003. |