A Gentle Amble with a Stat Attack after the Satmap Lesson...
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:13 pm
Two weeks off for me sadly; work beckons next weekend; and I'm in Barcelona toward the end of the following week. However all is not bad; that's followed by a week in Torridon with Fanny Flap and the Monsters...
So a gentle amble today; feeling a bit tired from all this being on the go with work or hills, so a quiet one beckoned...
I'm pleased to report Scotland is returning to sense after the summer deluge of tourists that come at the wrong time of year and go to all the wrong places, and with it block up the roads; I mean how many Driving Miss Daisies can there be
So a chance to rip it up through Glencoe at a sedate 50 mph
Fair to say the satrt of the route is pretty boggy which will continue all the way to the summit of Meall Cian Dearg; still not to worry...
The early morning light turns the landscape into some rich colours which flooded the valley with the flowing curves of the Allt Laire below...
It's hard work to get to the top of Meall Cian Dearg and the legs are well warmed up by the time you're there... THe view ahead clears momentarily and I think I'm in with a chance of it all clearing up, but no
I didn't stop (photos aside) on the route to Stob a'Choire Mheadhoin and I'm pleased to report the terrain higher up is much improved... A mixture of rocky and grassy path...
All you folks seem a touch keen on the workings of Satmap; shame on you look at the views... Anyway, I've had a lesson from Tom and am now armed with the take the Stats Pic... So the Stats to the first munro of the day; a whisper over two hours...
And it's not much more than a hop skip and a jump to munro number 2 of the of the day Stob Coire Easain; though it's a fairly steep climb to the top; nothing uncomfortable though; and whats a bit of leg burn... Not much of a view...
Stat Attack tells me it's been just 24 minutes between the two and a smidge under 150 metres of ascent... Jeez the technology today hey; all very exciting...
The return to munro 1 includes a spot of refreshment on the summit of Stob Coire Easain before the off... It's 10 metres of ascent less on the return for those of you that are interested coming in at 138 metres; but a slower time by 3 minutes coming in at 27 minutes... Now how long was my refreshment stop... I reckon Satmap says it's 4 minutes; based on total time less moving time (Monty might struggle with this calculation ); meaning I've actually got back in 23 minutes; jeez, this is fascinating stuff... If only there were some scenery to occupy my mind...
Descending through the clag into the world opens up a panorama to the North that I decide to take a sequence of shots of..
And lower down one final look back at the ascent of Meall Cian Dearg...
And we're done in just under 4 1/2 hours... Special thanks to Tom for the Satmap lesson
And the Route...
So a gentle amble today; feeling a bit tired from all this being on the go with work or hills, so a quiet one beckoned...
I'm pleased to report Scotland is returning to sense after the summer deluge of tourists that come at the wrong time of year and go to all the wrong places, and with it block up the roads; I mean how many Driving Miss Daisies can there be
So a chance to rip it up through Glencoe at a sedate 50 mph
Fair to say the satrt of the route is pretty boggy which will continue all the way to the summit of Meall Cian Dearg; still not to worry...
The early morning light turns the landscape into some rich colours which flooded the valley with the flowing curves of the Allt Laire below...
It's hard work to get to the top of Meall Cian Dearg and the legs are well warmed up by the time you're there... THe view ahead clears momentarily and I think I'm in with a chance of it all clearing up, but no
I didn't stop (photos aside) on the route to Stob a'Choire Mheadhoin and I'm pleased to report the terrain higher up is much improved... A mixture of rocky and grassy path...
All you folks seem a touch keen on the workings of Satmap; shame on you look at the views... Anyway, I've had a lesson from Tom and am now armed with the take the Stats Pic... So the Stats to the first munro of the day; a whisper over two hours...
And it's not much more than a hop skip and a jump to munro number 2 of the of the day Stob Coire Easain; though it's a fairly steep climb to the top; nothing uncomfortable though; and whats a bit of leg burn... Not much of a view...
Stat Attack tells me it's been just 24 minutes between the two and a smidge under 150 metres of ascent... Jeez the technology today hey; all very exciting...
The return to munro 1 includes a spot of refreshment on the summit of Stob Coire Easain before the off... It's 10 metres of ascent less on the return for those of you that are interested coming in at 138 metres; but a slower time by 3 minutes coming in at 27 minutes... Now how long was my refreshment stop... I reckon Satmap says it's 4 minutes; based on total time less moving time (Monty might struggle with this calculation ); meaning I've actually got back in 23 minutes; jeez, this is fascinating stuff... If only there were some scenery to occupy my mind...
Descending through the clag into the world opens up a panorama to the North that I decide to take a sequence of shots of..
And lower down one final look back at the ascent of Meall Cian Dearg...
And we're done in just under 4 1/2 hours... Special thanks to Tom for the Satmap lesson
And the Route...