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Anyone who has read previous reports will know my reports are turning into being more of a story of an epic adventure with my wee guy, Kyle. This one is just a quick report for a quick Munro! The forecast was not great for the weekend, but we were keen to get out and try to climb a hill or too! Kyle was chomping at the bit on Friday to go camping; the torrential rain put that idea off the agenda though.
We decided that we would have an early start on Sat morning and headed for Perthshire again. The chosen target was Schiehallion, mainly because it was a relatively short walk given the rainy conditions. By the time we got to the car park it was dry but lots of low cloud hanging at about 750m, no summits to be seen today! Lots of cars and some people just setting off as well, by the time we got going the others would have been at least half an hour in front of us. Leaving the car at 11.50 we headed up as quickly as ever, Wee Guy was jogging and poor old dad and Marley trying to keep up!
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- The "mountain goat" on look out!
We soon caught the other group of people on the first steeper sections, exchanged a few words and then we pushed on up leaving them behind. It must be quite demoralising to have a wee mountain goat aged 6 years come steaming past you!
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- Heading into the clouds!
As we climbed higher and higher the weather got worse and worse. Before long it was on with the full waterproofs, hats and gloves. Poor old Marley the Munro Dug even looked hacked off!
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- Kyle and Marley in the SLIPPY boulder field!
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- The summit is up there somewhere!
The final approach to the summit was through a boulder field and it was a “nightmare”, very very slippy underfoot because of the wet rocks, poor Kyle took a tumble and bashed his thumb, no lasting damage though, quickly picked himself up and moved onwards and upwards. The summit itself was slippy as it mainly consisted of big slabs.
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- Munro 23!
Kyle’s 23rd Munro (mission completed)
, he has almost completed 10% of them now, his wee blue pins on the map are starting to look very impressive. A quick summit photo and then down, clouds everywhere and not a single break in the clouds.
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- Marley looking a bit hacked off, time for home!
As we descended via the same route the clouds broke briefly to allow us some scenes / views. Out came the camera and the snapping started. We then returned to car in a very respectable time 4hrs 25mins.
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- Celebrations as the clouds begin to lift!
We did considered camping with a view to climbing again on the Sunday, but somehow the rain put us off, we returned home and enjoyed our nice warm beds for a change!
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- Me, ma boy and the dug on the way down, Loch Tay in the background!
To sum it up, a short day out, good result for all and proud dads smile continues to get bigger, the Wee Guy just keeps on walking. 23 Munros and one failure since April, our adventures continue…….
