I reached Fort Augustus late yesterday afternoon after four excellent days of walking since setting off from Glenelg on Friday morning. Here's a brief update on what I've been up to on route with a few photos - more details, photos and route maps will appear in due course once I'm back home.
On Friday I ascended Beinn Sgritheall as planned, with excellent views from the west ridge before I ascended into the cloud at around 800m. I descended to Arnisdale before camping a couple of kilometres up Glen Arnisdale.
Then on Saturday I spent the morning walking in rain to Kinloch Hourn, where I spent a pleasant hour resting in the tea room. By now the rain had cleared up and it was warm and sunny, so I decided to ascend Sgurr a'Mhaoraich with excellent views over Loch Quoich. That evening I camped near the road bridge over the northern arm of Loch Quoich.
On Sunday I had a long, good day climbing the two Munros of Gleouraich and Spidean Mialach. Again there were excellent views when I wasn't in the cloud, and there was a surprising amount of snow still remaining in their northern coires. After three long days in the hills, I descended to a B&B in Inchlaggan for a welcome rest!
Then yesterday I walked along the forest tracks to Invergarry, where I met Alan, Andrew and Phil in the pub and walked with them much of the rest of the day into the metropolis of Fort Augustus. Today I head into the Monadhliath.
See this post of mine from last week for details of my planned route together with updates on my actual progress via Social Hiking.
On Friday I ascended Beinn Sgritheall as planned, with excellent views from the west ridge before I ascended into the cloud at around 800m. I descended to Arnisdale before camping a couple of kilometres up Glen Arnisdale.
Then on Saturday I spent the morning walking in rain to Kinloch Hourn, where I spent a pleasant hour resting in the tea room. By now the rain had cleared up and it was warm and sunny, so I decided to ascend Sgurr a'Mhaoraich with excellent views over Loch Quoich. That evening I camped near the road bridge over the northern arm of Loch Quoich.
On Sunday I had a long, good day climbing the two Munros of Gleouraich and Spidean Mialach. Again there were excellent views when I wasn't in the cloud, and there was a surprising amount of snow still remaining in their northern coires. After three long days in the hills, I descended to a B&B in Inchlaggan for a welcome rest!
Then yesterday I walked along the forest tracks to Invergarry, where I met Alan, Andrew and Phil in the pub and walked with them much of the rest of the day into the metropolis of Fort Augustus. Today I head into the Monadhliath.
See this post of mine from last week for details of my planned route together with updates on my actual progress via Social Hiking.
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Alan, Phil and Andy in the pub. Shocking. Glad it's going well.
ReplyDeleteI met them in two pubs that day! One in Invergarry for lunch and one in Fort Augustus for dinner - made a change from dehydrated meals :-)
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