New year in the highlands is always brilliant, this year was
no different.
It’s the 2nd of January, there’s 7 hours of
daylight. What could be more sensible than planning a 12 hour traverse. Walking
highlands suggests “The traverse of the Grey Corries main ridge gives a long
and demanding but superb mountain walk” and that’s for summer
conditions. It was definitely not summer outside.
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Stob Coire Claurigh
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Stob Coire an Laoigh
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Not deterred we shuttled cars the night before and well before the crack of dawn found ourselves stomping up Glen Nevis. It was a long way to get on to the ridge but once up there we soon started ticking off summits and tops.
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Rather Windy, Sgurr Choinnich Mor |
It was a little windy in places, but not too bitingly cold (so long as you kept moving). I wasn’t entirely sure about going for all four peaks and though about heading down after three. However a break in the cloud meant I could see the final summit, it didn’t look so very far after all. Getting up the final summit was tricky though a faintly discernible path up a scree slope. I was starting to feel tired once we were at the summit and we still had to descend the same horrid scree slope.
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Feeling like Heros on the top of Stob Ban |
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Top of the road |
New years day I decided would be a good day to begin my Etape
cycle training. So I set out chasing Ashely up Glen Etive. It turned out to be hard
work, the return journey back down the valley, I found myself clinging to the
brakes not wanting to pick up too much speed on an occasionally uneven road. what a way to bring in the new year.
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First sunset of the New Year |
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