EPIC! Aonach Eagach Ridge! Marley, Me & "Wee Guy"
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:48 pm
Awesome...fantastic...what a day! Every outing is always an adventure for the three of us (Marley, Me and Kyle "Wee Guy") but this time we had a guest called Lee. We had decided that because the weather looked so good and also because we had two cars at our disposal the mighty Aonach Eagach Ridge was on the cards. I and Lee had discussed this over a few beers and so it was decided for Thursday the 9th August 2012! This will go down in my memory as a truly Epic day of walking and climbing!
We had parked a car at the Clachaig Inn (strategically placed for a post walk beverage given the somewhat warm weather which had been forecasted)! We left the other car and headed off on our adventure where the Alt-na-reigh crossed the A82. From here we climbed very steeply to the Am Bodach summit. Once at the ridge we turned west and well, it got exciting! The ridge, saddles and traverse just seemed to go on and on and well on! Every time we stopped to admire the scenery and looked back, we could not really pick out our route! This was turning out to be a truly amazing adventure! We had to climb down and then climbed up followed by some more of the same! This is certainly not a route for the faint hearted! Then it happed, we hit the summit of "wee guys" 11th Munro! Very proud as ever! However we didn’t get chance to appreciate it too much as Kyle wanted to push on, he was hoping for more climbing! Unfortunately we had completed most of the EPIC ridge by this point, much to Kyle’s disappointment (much to Marley’s relief)LOL! We pushed onto the second Munro of the ridge / day Sgorr nam Fiannaidh. After completing the summit, we all chose the "MAD" descent! We were pretty much looking straight down on top of the Clachaig Inn, what a way to finish an amazing day! I hope you enjoyed our short report of another adventure in the mountains. Just totted up that the wee guy has completed 12 Munros since April, 80Km of walking / climbing totalling just over 8,200m of ascent! Not bad for a 6 year old (god help me and poor Marley)!