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Black Rock Blue Skye

Black Rock Blue Skye


by jonny616 » Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:35 am

Route description: Blà Bheinn (Blaven)

Munros included on this walk: Blà Bheinn

Date walked: 30/03/2012

Time taken: 5.5 hours

Distance: 8 km

Ascent: 990m

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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby orion » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:07 pm

Great weather for the time of year,eh :D
Love the pic of the cloud shrouding Pinnacle ridge ...it`s a cracker :D
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby rockhopper » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:16 pm

great to see Skye with blue skies - well done all on a cracking day - cheers :D
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby pollyh33 » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:27 pm

dogplodder wrote:Oh wow, I so want to climb this one and what a day you got for it! :mrgreen:

Your photos are magnificent!

Just one question. How did Pauline get on that trig point? Answer illustrated with photos would be helpful! :lol: :lol:


Er Kathleen, as you can see by the look on poor Ron's face, he had to take one for the team to get me up there!!! Poor boy is traumatised!!!!

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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby jimandandrea » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:28 pm

Fantastic report with stunning photos :D .

sometimes you just can't believe your luck when you actually get 10% cloud free summits. 8)
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby Scotjamie » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:45 pm

Great stuff - I remember you guys were still buzzing afterwards at the Kintail Lodge....the fun shines through. A great set of pics and a really good report
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby rocket-ron » Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:29 pm

iainwatson wrote:nice report jonny,the weather looked awesome! and the pictures are fabulous!

is that 'bigfoot and the henderson' in the first pic? ha ha ha ha (thats for ron offering to help me over a stile at the end of the walk on sat cause i've got wee legs ha ha ha)


Come on Iain i only offered to help as i thought you would struggle to get over it :lol:
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby rocket-ron » Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:32 pm

pollyh33 wrote:Whit a report Jonny!!!

I will never forget that day with you and Ron, surely its illegal to that much fun on a hill :lol: :lol: :lol:

I think its fair to say that I will never sit at a table in a pub in Inverness :lol: :shock: :shock: :shock:


PS Thanks for not posting the 'before' photos of me getting on that trig point!!!


Fun fun fun on the hills thats what its all about. I enjoy a laugh on the hills. I had 2 great people to share them.
Am sure if people looked hard enough they would find that pic :lol:
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby jonny616 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:56 am

Thanks all for the comments.


Polly. I'm going to use that technique to get a table :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby jonny616 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:58 am

pigeon wrote:Great report jonny,going up to glen shiel soon,so tempted to do this hill,is it a long drive from shiel bridge?


Hi Pigeon. Its about an hour from Shiel bridge. well worth it if you have the time 8)
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby steven65 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:03 pm

Wonderful pictures Jonny , i`m hoping to do this 1 soon along with Beinn Sgritheall - whilst combining it with a wee tour on my Vespa GTS 250.
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby mrssanta » Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:55 pm

oh fantastic. Just fantastic.
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Re: Black Rock Blue Skye

Postby Graeme D » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:22 am

Wonderful report Jonny. I cannae keep up with all these superb reports from last weekend! :shock:
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