by Dirk Winter » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:34 pm
Date walked: 30/07/2008
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We climbed these three quickest but maybe ugliest munros on the 15th of July and noticed that it can get quite windy up there. On the last metres of our ascent to Carn Aosda, the first munro on the route, the wind became rather strong (at least for somebody who climbs the Scottish mountains only during his holidays).
The advantage of that: We climbed the three munros much quicker than we expected (only 4 hours and one minute, whereas mostly we take longer than the estimated times given on walkhighlands). One reason for that might be that Nadine didn't want to take her camera out - the views were not stunning enough for her to put up with a defect camera. Another one might be the comparably short period of time we spent on each single top.
The ascent to Carn Aosda was very steep and let the sweat flow. In addition to that the fences and ski lifts made us hurry to reach a more remote area. On the top the sweat was dried quite quickly by the wind and soon our backpacks were released of several pieces of clothing.
On the way to Carn a' Gheoidh we enjoyed some lee areas where the going was comfortable, but during the quite steep ascent to the Cairnwell there was no protection any more and it even started to rain.
Despite of these conditions we were not alone at all. On each top we met somebody else and on the Cairnwell there was a big surprise waiting for us. Whereas during our other walks we had met many people who knew walkhighlands.co.uk (you could recognize the prints easily and soon there was a topic of conversation), on the Cairnwell we met Tessa (I hope I spelt that correctly) who was at that time one of only ten people who had introduced themselves in the "Say hello" section of Walk Talk. What a coincidence!
So I don't vote the walk as uninspiring because you can meet other forum members there. Well, I can't think of many other reasons for that vote...
- Attachments
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- one of the greatest achievements of mankind
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- Tessa and me in front of Napoleon's coffin