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With the excitement building due to the spring meet & much on line chat about what hills to climb when & an extended pass out meant I could leave Glasgow at 06:00 on the Friday. This gave me the opportunity to join Polly & Ron on a trip to Skye. Much chatting about which hill to do & we eventually settled on Bla Bheinn even though Ron had done it before he was happy to go again as he had been unable to collect the second top on his first visit.
Picked Polly up & northwest we headed. The day was looking pretty good. A few cheeky fb posts to people at work. Stopped at Shiel Bridge to put my tent up & meet Ron, we also bumped into Monty & had a bit of chat. Ron drove us over to Skye (if that’s what you call driving).
We rounded Loch Slapin & parked up. The cloud was just hanging over the ridges & summits.
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- Ready for the off
The walk up to Coire Uaigneich has a path most of the way & as you climb the views really open up behind & the black rock & scree gully’s become more menacing looking. Quiet different to anything else I have seen.
From the Corie you head right up a vague path that disintegrates into scree & the goes left, very loose but manageable.
The views were opening up all the time & the cloud disbursing.
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- Looking down from above Coire Uaigneich
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- View behind
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- One of the many ridges
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- Heading for the scrambles
We messed about a lot on rocks with big drops behind them for dramatic pics & generally gazed in ore at the views.
A couple of wee scrambles led us within sight of the summit & then OMG the views.Back inland, out to sea & the whole of the Cuillin ridge clear enough for us to be able to pic out the In Pin & most of the other Munro’s. We spent a good 45 mins just drinking it all in. Ron did a 10 min hop out & back to collect his top.
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- Cairn to Trig with the Cuillin ridge between
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- Three Amigos & The Cuillin
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- Ron gets his top
We then descended the same way we had come up pinching ourselves as we could not quite believe our luck. For once we were in the alleged 10% of an MWIS 10% cloud free day.
This was a great walk & whilst we all know that weather enhances days like these my over ridding memory will be of fun. I enjoy & find climbing hills fun, but somehow this day was about fun & climbing a hill was a bonus. I have not laughed so much whilst out on the hills. Great company, great hill & great weather.
Then we were off back to Kintail to meet more great company, talk endlessly about our day & get excited about our next adventure which was less than 12 hours away.
