Ben Alligin
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:37 pm
Perfect weather for this solo bivvy nineteen years ago on what I often think of as my favourite Scottish hill.
Don't remember too much about it other than the fine views and light and bumping into someone I knew vaguely on the top. They were bound for the pub whilst I was bound for a night on Tom na Gruagaich in a sleeping bag, on a carry mat and under the outside of a tent. Next morning though was overcast but a descent with high spirits brought on by the fine evening and night followed. Had no car then so hitch hiked possibly all the way back to Aberdeen and certainly as far as Inverness bus station as was often the case back then.
Don't remember too much about it other than the fine views and light and bumping into someone I knew vaguely on the top. They were bound for the pub whilst I was bound for a night on Tom na Gruagaich in a sleeping bag, on a carry mat and under the outside of a tent. Next morning though was overcast but a descent with high spirits brought on by the fine evening and night followed. Had no car then so hitch hiked possibly all the way back to Aberdeen and certainly as far as Inverness bus station as was often the case back then.