Stay switched on

[PathfinderPaul]

t273298430_beinn manach.gpx Open full screen  NB: Walkhighlands is not responsible for the accuracy of gpx files in users posts

[
This was last one for this year & a good weather day So bikes were organised & we found a lay-by just before the turn off the main road, so Ponyexpress was dropped off at the start of the track
IMG_20230721_084725_619 by Joan Howard, on Flickr
We’d heard a bit about how wet this route can be, but the weather had cleared & waterlevels had gone down so it was a very enjoyable and easy ride in on the bikes
IMG_20230721_090549_427 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

IMG_20230721_090556_694 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

IMG_20230721_091127_401 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

IMG_20230721_092036_900 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

IMG_20230721_093117_042 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

IMG_20230721_094546_523 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

Once we got to the head of the pass it was time to leave the bikes and look for the path
IMG_20230721_102952_747 by Joan Howard, on Flickr
We soon picked up the line of fence posts that you follow to near the summit
IMG_20230721_111448_890 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

Steady progress up the hill, just one comfort break & a butty
We may have come off the line of posts a little too early, to head for the summit, where we eventually picked up a path

IMG_20230721_121134_615 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

We met a guy near the top who took some pics for us.

IMG_20230721_124156_300 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

IMG_20230721_124313_719 by Joan Howard, on Flickr
Then it was time to head back down

IMG_20230721_124744_992 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

It was at this point as we went back down towards the fence posts that Ponyexpress discovered she had lost her phone

IMG_20230721_125447_438 by Joan Howard, on Flickr
So as we went down by the posts I was calling her phone every couple of minutes. Eventually when we got to roughly where we had had our break coming up we heard the phone ringing It had dropped out of her pocket when she had the comfort break. What a good job it was switched on
Which wasn’t the case for another hiker at our previous site at Kinlochewe of a man who couldn’t find his phone, although it was somewhere in his camper van. He realised it was switched off.
Having eventually resorting to me having a “prayer” with him, it came to light rolled up in his sleeping back. The moral is , “always stay switched on
We were soon back at the track for the lovely ride out

IMG_20230721_134908_708 by Joan Howard, on Flickr

IMG_20230721_144936_538 by Joan Howard, on Flickr