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This is my first walk report people please bear with me
Left house 6.30 am headed up to fort bill with a dodgy camera, water still in it from fridays walk at culra,
Mamores from youth hostel
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- mamores
Headed up first part of track towards halfway lochain where the north face the ben come into view
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- north face
Heading to the cic hut
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- climbers at cic hut
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- north face
Nearly at summit of cmd
some fellow walkers below
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- 2 walkers
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- summit in view or not
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- arete
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Got to cmd summit after 3 hours had a quick cup of tea and spoke to 4 fellow walkers then headed down the arete no more photos as camera packed in.
Got to the summit of the ben after a further 2 hours after a mini snow blizzard lasted 20 minutes halfway along the arete
Stayed on the bens summit 5 minutes then headed down the track home.
