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Had a good day here a couple of years ago. The need to travel there and back same day starting from Aberdeenshire necessitated a short walk so I elected to visit the west end of the ridge only.
The morning was quite spring like and I had a very pleasant walk up into the glen to the north of the main ridge.
Surprisingly, there was a lot of thin ice from about the 500m contour upwards.
I got to the bealach between the main top of Ben Mor Coigach and Garbh Choireachan after a couple of hours and decided to head straight west from there as I was already short on time. I then had a highly entertaining walk along that narrow section of ridge in the late afternoon light and mist.
This was also an occasion for me to say goodbye to a family member who had recently died so it is a day that will always stand out in my memory.
I reached the end of the ridge as the sun was setting which was both poignant, for the aforementioned reason, and bloody freezing! I was so desperate to photograph and video that sunset and at the same time had to take my gloves off to work things properly that I was really getting seriously cold with the wind that was rising.
I tried to be decisive and descend but had to stop a couple more times on the way down to do more photographing, videoing and freezing.
Once I'd descended about half way the air warmed up and I had a tolerable stumble through the peat following the path down in the dark.
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