Weather much improved since the tail end of last week. Last three days have been fantastic with little wind and generally clear skies. How nice it is to arrive back at the van not dripping wet!
The family came up for a visit over the weekend and we ended up hiring a caravan. This meant I got to sleep in a proper bed for the first time in about 4 weeks!
Lewis was determined to get out and climb something, so when the rain finally stopped lashing down around Saturday lunchtime, we headed to the Glen Coe ski centre to venture up into the clouds. Once at the top of Meall a’Bhuiridh, fairly deep snow and deteriorating conditions meant that a trip across to Creise was out for the day.
By complete contrast the following day was calm and after the low morning cloud burnt off, was clear. Lewis joined me for the Ballachulish Horseshoe, which turned out to be a fantastic day despite having to cut through forestry plantations Indiana-Jones style to make it back to the van!
Willie Chalmers also came up this week to join me for a day, keen to do something in Glen Coe. Taking advantage of the availability of the extra car, we agreed on a traverse of the Aonach Eagach ridge. I hadn’t been along here for years, but it was fantastic, every bit as exhilarating as I remembered it, and we had a cracking day for it. Despite best intentions to avoid the Clachaig Gully footpath, we ended up descending down that way, which turned out to be the hardest and most exhausting part of the whole traverse!
08/05 - Black Mount (Stob a’Choire Odhair & Stob Ghabhar
09/05 - Meall a’Bhuiridh
10/05 - Beinn a’Bheithir (Sgorr Dhonuill & Sgorr Dhearg)
11/05 - Beinn Sgularid & Beinn Fhionnlaidh
12/05 - Aonach Eagach Glen Coe (Sgorr nam Fiannaidh & Meall Dearg)
View from the summit ridge of Stob Ghabhar (Black Mount) 08/05. All four seasons rolled into one.
Lewis at the top of a quite wintery Meall a’Bhuiridh, 09/05.
Photo opportunity at the top of Sgorr Dhearg, 10/05. Ben Nevis in the background in white.
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