Well here goes for my first ever walk report!
Sat 29th Aug found myself, my boyfriend Mackie & friend Mark sititing in the car at the Glencoe memorial as the rain battered down in apocalypic fashion.. after 20mins we decided we were being big girls & decided to go for it. It did get brighter though & turned out to be a 'jacket on/jacket off' kind of day.
The first section - before zig-zagging back left & seeing the pap itself was mega peaty/boggy due the deluge we had narrowly avoided.. I was leading this section & skipping gracefully from clump to clump of firmish ground.. it took several minutes for the boys to work out that they had about 5st each on me & after a couple of near boot losing incidents they decided to seek their own path through the marshy nightmare.
Towards the summit the path got a bit sketchy.. I'm guessing we ascended from the SE side, there was one small section where we had to find hand & foot holds on the rock to climb up - it was very slippy & I had a moment's heart failure when my foot slipped - luckily Mark was below me & managed to get a hand to one bum cheek to steady me.
The wind on the summit took us by surprise & after risking getting blown away for a couple of snaps we dived for cover in the spoon shaped rock shelter for a mars bar & 5min sit down.
The descent was a bit hairy as the ground was so wet and the rocks & skree so loose, in the end we sort of power slid our back way down. Only saw one other group the whole day - they were coming down as we were going up and after the usual nods & hellos we had the whole place (world?) to ourselves again! Arrived back at campsite tired but happy.
Well that's my first attempt - I'll try to learn some more technical terms for next time & keep the waffle to a minimum. Feedback/corrections (grammatical or factual) welcome!
Yours,
missMHK.
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