summerhill wrote:Hi there, what about the shelter stone area in the Cairngorm . I've seen the odd tent at the head of Loch Avon. The two Munros are Cairngorm itself along with Beinn Mheadhoin ( Vee-an ) Cheers, Colin
I camped there one winter's night; the snow lay thick all about and my tent was pitched near a burn so I didn't have to go far for water. Over night the wind changed to a milder, strong gale from the South West. The snow melted, the burn rose and inundated the tent. It was a hairy escape, quite an epic retreat down Glen Derry where every burn had swollen from shallow streams I could splash through to raging torrents which would have killed me. I could hear large rocks being knocked together as they rolled down in the flood. I had to clamber away up the hillside each time I encountered a burn in spate in order to find an area where the burn was narrow enough to leap across. I guess the lessons learned were: 1. Check the weather forecast and behave accordingly. 2.Don't camp next to a burn in case it floods. 3. If there is a perfectly good shelter stone nearby, use it.