
To get it clear early on, we didn't


So, we arrived with the bags packed and in the car at Kinlochleven?!?

Yep, we have to be different

Headed up on the West Highland Way, where dad was keenly examining every inch of it for the Glencoe Marathon in October (glad it's not me

Carried on the WHW, past Tigh-na-sleubhaich
After a strange encounter with some motorbikers, we headed almost to Lairigmor, but not quite, before turning off onto the mental route up Sgurr na h-Uilin.
After what felt like years of climbing, we reached the ridge where it was 'simply'

After lunch it was down along the ridge, where we arrived at the first of 3 tops on the way to Stob Ban
Once we were over the next top and into the bealach Stob Ban looked so steep to get on, but we plodded it out.
The descent from Stob Ban was even steeper than the ascent.
Down into the bealach it was then, with jelly legs for the first time (of many). From here, we took the path down into Coire name Miseach, which is beautiful, although the Lochan has quite a lot of green algae in it. Then it was up the zig-zags towards the bealach. We battled through the pain and after so much hard work, we looked down to see how much ascent we had done - one zig-zag

How are we going to cope with this?
Finally we reached the belach, where we were heading for Sgurr a' Mhaim from. We patched the bags here.
The next part of our journey took us along the Ring of Steall, which Dad did years and years and years ago when he was young with Mum. This part was called the Devil's Ridge, which I thought sounded awesome but dad said it was pretty easy.
The bit we found out later was called the bad step has a path down to the west below it, but this still has a wee scramble. We took this path and after a wee scramble down into Bealach a' Chip, headed up to Sgurr a' Mhaim.
We headed back along the dramatic Devil's Ridge, picked up the bags and began the ascent up to Sgurr an Iubhair. We were getting tired by this point so it took a while.
It looked like we might be running out of time for our planned camp below Binnein Beag, so we picked up the pace up Am Bodach.
We were really struggling for energy and the descent of Am Bodach was almost vertical, so we stopped halfway down to decide what to do. We decided to try and find a pitch below Bealach a' Chadha Riabhaich.
We finally reached the bealach and began the long ascent up Stob Coire a' Chairn.
We started descending towards Bealach a' Chadha Riabhaich. The weather was doing everything it could to lift our tired spirits.
We reached the bealach surprisingly quickly and picked up the path down to the east. We were looking for a pitch in desperation and when we found one that looked like it was suitably flat we pitched the tent desperately quickly and started cooking tea.
How are we going to find the energy to get home tomorrow?
Here's how!