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This week had eyes on the Mamores to take care of some un-finished business from last year when i had attempted a round of four eastern munro's last easter but let myself down badly and only managed sgurr eilde mor(too eager to get to the pub that day
)Never mind today that would be put right.So picked up big jim(other regulars absent today for various reasons
)early and we were off.The drive up was brill,not a cloud in the sky and we made good time and were parked up at the mamore lodge and ready to go for just after half 7.
- a glorious morning
- onwards and upwards
- am bodach?
- beinn a' bhiether
- an gearanach?
- looking down to loch leven
Na Gruagaichean was first target the sun still beating down causing much sweatyness but we made good time up here and enjoyed great views.The sky was still clear to the south and east but it was a bit cloudier to the north and west though,could see most of the other mamores from here and made educated guess at which was which by using the map(clever or whit
)but the best view was the ridge to binnien mor
- jim on the last pull up to gruagaichean
- first munro of the day
- ridge to binnien mor
This was a great walk,narrow at times but nothing too dodgy,still a lot of snow at places but an enjoyable trek in the good conditions
- sgurr eilde mor
Got to the narrow summit of binnien mor with no dramas then planned our descent
- binnien mor
- narrow summit ridge
This required a bit more thought especially as a wee blizzard came in and the visability was now not so good
Picked our way carefully down the steep rocks keeping away from the steep snowy drop into the coire to our right,headed a bit further down to the north avoiding the steepest parts then back east-ish again to eventually come to the lochan at the foot of binnien beag.
- descent
- look back up to binnien mor
Had some soup at the lochan,baxter's cock a leekie(by far the worst baxter's soup,i'm sending a strongly worded letter to Audrey Baxter to tell her how crap it is
)then made our way up the rocky slopes of binnien beag.
- base camp binnien beag
- rocky
- me and jim ,Binnien Beag
Took us about half an hour from the lochan to the top of beag and spoke to a nice couple at the top who were doing the same hills in reverse from us,they were the only folks we seen all day(apart from some army looking types away over on sgurr eilde mor),they took our picture and we were soon heading back downwards.It,s quite a long walk back and the path drops a good bit between binnien beag and the lochan at eilde mor,wasstruggling a bit here so a breather was had at the lochan when another bit of bad weather came in
- looking back at binnien beag and the weather closing in
- nice wee blizzard
- great fun
This lasted about 20 minutes,or long enough to soak us through,but never mind we soon dried out in the breeze as we trudged back to the car.So,after last weeks Cairngorm cracker i would put this down as another cracker,a bit of everything,sun ,snow ,rocky climbs,steep ridges,crap soup and great hills.Looking forward to getting back up here in the summer to maybe tackle the ring of steall ,Magic
- last look down loch leven
