camping in Lost Valley

[mrssanta]

We are thinking of camping in the Lost Valley on Saturday 23rd and possibly 24th as well. Is it likely to be mobbed? Any helpful advice on good spots or what to avoid? It's a bank holiday weekend in England.

[Kevin29035]

Have only rarely heard it being used for camping so I'd imagine you won't have a problem. However the glen floor is a big boulderfield (without a water source, as the river goes underground), so not sure how easy it would be to find a pitch?

[darren]

Be careful were you pitch you might end up under water if it rains.

[electricfly]

As long as the rain isn't pouring down, you should be fine to camp on the greener area to the left of the two walkers in this photo. You can easily drop a little way back down the access valley to retrieve any extra water you might need.

[Caberfeidh]

It's at the bottom of a bowll of thousands of square yards of loose tottering rocks. All those stones didn't get carried up from below, they fell there from above, some very recently. If you don't want to be on the receiving end of a high velocity delivery of loose geology, camp higher up. Or not anywhere near there....

[Poocini]

Myself and a couple of friends camped there in late 92, when we were but teenagers!
It wasn't too bad. From memory we had some problems getting the tent pegs into the ground because the soil wasn't that thick (might just have been where we chose to pitch), and we had a stag scare the bejesus out of us at 2 in the morning when it decided to bellow right beside the tent, but apart from that it was fine.

However, do take the warnings about water into account. In the morning, it started to rain fairly heavily and it wasn't long before the ground was waterlogged and we had to boulder hop down a raging river where the path used to be!

[mrssanta]

Thanks for the advice folks, we'll let you know how we get on. If we survive!

[Caberfeidh]

Doomed I tell ye, doomed....

[Hill-loving lady]

Doomed I tell ye, doomed....

Doomed only if a MacGregor surely

[Hill-loving lady]

OR a MacDonald....mixing my clans up, and me a Campbell as well TUT TUT

[Caberfeidh]

And to this very day, the baddy in Super Gran is known as "The Scunner Campbell"...

The Scunner Campbell

[mrssanta]

Well after all that, we didn't go to the Lost Valley in the end, as our friend we were showing off to couldn't come. We had a fantastic weekend on sgor na h'ulaidh, beinn Fhionnlaidh and Sgulaird. TR will come eventually.

[IamAJMiller]

You weren't hiking up out of Glen Etive with camping gear on Saturday afternoon were you? If so we were the party of three you met on the Forest road.

[mrssanta]

yes that was us!! pleased to meet you! I did wonder if it was you we met when I saw your report last night. we really enjoyed those hills