Lawers and Ghlas. On the Thursday we returned to finish the easier Meall Corranaich and Meall a Choire Leith.
Unfortunately we never quite enjoyed the weather we had when we walked the Tarmachen Ridge but the challenge of completing the 5 was enough to motivate us regardless of the patchy weather.
We thought we were doing well until we were overtaken by 4 guys training for the Artemis Great Kindrocht Quadrathalon. 1.35 km swim over Loch Tay, 7 Munro's including the Tarmachen Ridge, 11km Kayak and a 54km bike ride to finish. The winning team manages to do this in 10 hours, wow. Although you start from a lower height I think starting from the Lawers hotel would always be my preference as I don't really like the wide path leading up to Ghlas and Lawers from the carpark.
I'm glad we completed it that way as we hummed and hawed for a few days prior to the walk.
Anyway we managed our 5 Munros in 7.5 hours whilst enjoying today's easier 2 Munros in a leisurely 4.5 hours. Today Morgan my daughter joined us to continue with her new hobby, ticking her 6th Munro since starting a couple of months ago.
Below are a selection of photos from
- Route for Ben Lawers 5
- Start of our Day 1st Munro Meall Greigh
- Meall Garbh
- An Stuc and then there were 4
- Stevie as he hits the highest climb of the day at Ben Lawers
- The rest of the team at the peak of Ben Lawers
- 3 Men and a Dog at Beinn Ghlas
Day 2 a much more leisurely day, very windy and wet to start but decent views.
- Day 2 Route
- Meall Corranaich
- Munro 2 of the day Meall a Choire Leith. Certainly not sunshine on Leith.
- Getting windy :)
- Me and my 4 legged child.
- Alfie and Morgan waiting patiently for lunch.
- Morgan and her old Dad in front of the reservoir at the end of the walk.
