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Day1 Friday,The 5 Sisters of Kintail.6 and a half hours
First time up in this neck o the woods for us so what better what to start than with the 5 sisters?Myself ,Jim ,Huck finn ,Kev ,Ian and jake had travelled up on Thursday and were booked into the hostel where we spent a quiet night
.On the go and at the car park at about half eight and began the steep start.Somehow ,and probably because none of us were in the best of health(self inflicted of course)we had taken a path that took us more or less to the low point between Sgurr nan Spainteach and Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe,still it got us to the foot of the first munro and we sat in the cold ,had some soup and hoped our hangovers would soon fade.They soon did and the rest of the walk was excellent,cloud level high enough to see all around and the weather was decent ,a great way to open the Kintail account
- making steep progress
- sgurr nan spainteach
- cold on sgurr na ciste dubh
- the five on S N C D
- jim on sgurr na carnach
- steep descent from carnach
- kev,jim and jake on sgurr fhuaran
- ridge to sgurr nan saighead
Day 2 Saturday ,South Glen Sheil Munro's,10 and a half hours.
For Saturday's walk we were joined by The Legend that is Charlie P ,his son in law Kevin ,Watty and his nephew Darren.Darren had never climbed a munro before so we were a bit worried about pitching him into such a long day.We needed have worried though as the young fella cruised through the day ,even performing some impressive head stands.Again though we never learned our lesson from thursday night and most of us turned up again with raging hang-overs,one of us suffering from an acute case of Laphroigitis(you know who you are)
A great walk this ,long and tough but again the weather played ball and Ian reached the milestone 100 munro's on Sgurr an Lochain.Well done to the boys on this one ,especially Watty and Darren and big Kev for getting Watty to the end. A great weekend all round ,must get back up there soon.
- a bright start for the team
- Watty -knackered already
- jim battles on
- jim and the legend
- team pic on creag a mhaim
- kev almost at aonach air chrith
- charlie looking back to air chrith from maol chinn dearg
- laphroagitis takes it's toll
- loch quoich
- number 100 for ian on sgurr an lochain
- watty -beyond knackered on creag nam damh
- Darren celebrates his first munro's in style
- me and bro in law on the last munro of the day
- steep wee scramble
- a breather near the end
