Hardly a "warm" Wyvis welcome but glad to be back
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:10 pmFinally, first new Munro since May!
Proved to be one of those days that makes you appreciate the good ones all the more
WARNING: It's normal to think of Ben Wyvis as a big friendly whaleback with a plateau summit, but the edge of Coire na Feola takes a big bite into the ridge, just where the true line kinks away slightly to the cairn (on the approach of the south). In whiteout conditions it's very easy to stray close to this edge, as I almost found out!
Checking the following day, the weather stats confirmed that the wettest place in the whole of Britain on Remembrance Sunday was 5 miles down the road at Loch Glascarnoch.
And the coldest.
Proved to be one of those days that makes you appreciate the good ones all the more
- The red line shows the potential to stray into Coire na Feola
WARNING: It's normal to think of Ben Wyvis as a big friendly whaleback with a plateau summit, but the edge of Coire na Feola takes a big bite into the ridge, just where the true line kinks away slightly to the cairn (on the approach of the south). In whiteout conditions it's very easy to stray close to this edge, as I almost found out!
- Best photo of the day - from the back garden before I'd left!!
- Friendly info board at the car park
- Glad there was a bridge across that
- Name the bird???!
- Autumnal colours
- Ben Wyvis peeking through the mists
- Walkers heading down, I'm heading up
- The remainder of the day fades into monochrome
- The big boulder that offered some shelter - note the amazing path
- The cairn of An Cabar, 30 minutes from the summit
- Whiteout - the edge of Coire na Feola isn't far away...
- The summit emerges from the white
- On top
- The long overdue Sun
- Shades of blue better late than never
- The last colours before dark
Checking the following day, the weather stats confirmed that the wettest place in the whole of Britain on Remembrance Sunday was 5 miles down the road at Loch Glascarnoch.
And the coldest.
