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Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:15 pm
Route description: Beinn Enaiglair, Braemore Junction
Corbetts included on this walk: Beinn Enaiglair
Grahams included on this walk: Meall Doire Faid
Date walked: 09/04/2015
Time taken: 3.25 hours
Distance: 8.36 km
Ascent: 885m
4 people think this report is great. Register or Login free to be able to rate and comment on reports (as well as access 1:25000 mapping).Decisions, decisions, will I travel via Larig or Ullapool en route to Durness? decision had to be made which hills to pick up when travelling North to the WH meet at Durness. Decision made! Ullapool road faster and you get a good fish supper for tea, not only that I had read Johnny Corbetts TR on these hills at the very last minute, he had done these travelling to last years WH meet at Assynt suggesting they were a perfect warm up for the weekend, so the Corbett of Beinn Enaigair and the nearby Graham, Meall Doire Faid was to be the targets.
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- After tasting one of the best fish suppers i've had in a while at Ullapool, I drive up to Durness and Sango Sands Campsite passing Ben Stack on the way
Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by trekker53 » Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:26 pm
Good report Rod, a fine sunny day to stretch your legs prior to meet.
Look forward to reading your following reports.
Look forward to reading your following reports.
Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by mountain thyme » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:13 pm
Nice wee report Rod and a cracking day. Think those hills took JC and me 3 hours 22minutes 

Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by Fife Flyer » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:32 pm
Lucky you being able to get an extra day, especially with blue skies on the menu
Up to your usual standard Rod
Could have done with a fish supper on Saturday night as the chicken curry would have made a nice starter
Nice one Theresa, love it
Rod will be back there very soon 

Up to your usual standard Rod



mountain thyme wrote:Nice wee report Rod and a cracking day. Think those hills took JC and me 3 hours 22minutes
Nice one Theresa, love it





Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by Beaner001 » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:54 pm
Nice one Rod, passed Braemore Junction a couple of times of late and wondered what was up there to my right when on the road.......now I know, it looked quite a climb from the road
Great views of the Deargs
Cheers


Great views of the Deargs

Cheers
Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:52 am
trekker53 wrote:Good report Rod, a fine sunny day to stretch your legs prior to meet.
Look forward to reading your following reports.
Thanks Charlie, I pushed on a bit on this one, and built up quite a sweat, drank loads as well, pity about the haze but you cannot have everything, another two blue balloons added though

Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:55 am
mountain thyme wrote:Nice wee report Rod and a cracking day. Think those hills took JC and me 3 hours 22minutes





Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:01 am
Fife Flyer wrote:Lucky you being able to get an extra day, especially with blue skies on the menu![]()
Up to your usual standard Rod![]()
Could have done with a fish supper on Saturday night as the chicken curry would have made a nice starter
mountain thyme wrote:Nice wee report Rod and a cracking day. Think those hills took JC and me 3 hours 22minutes
Nice one Theresa, love it![]()
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Rod will be back there very soon
The fish supper tasted out of this world, cooked to order, fresh fish with a light fried batter that melted in your mouth, chips were no bad either all eaten whilst sitting on a rock looking up at the hills I had just done at the end of Loch Broom.
Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:06 am
Beaner001 wrote:Nice one Rod, passed Braemore Junction a couple of times of late and wondered what was up there to my right when on the road.......now I know, it looked quite a climb from the road![]()
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Great views of the Deargs![]()
Cheers
Thanks Beaner, make sure you add the Graham when you do it, no problems if you do the Corbett first, the grassy rake I climbed up if wet my just get a bit slippy for coming down, so I would approach from the North of the Graham and just come off directly of the South, never mind heading back to the path around the West side


Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by BlackPanther » Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:47 am
Hi Rod, nice pics from a couple of my "local" lower hills. They are good viewpoints to Fannichs and Fisherfields, even when haze spoils it a bit... I hope you didn't suffer too much bog on the approach... The path to Home Loch needs some drainage I think
We climbed this duo on two separate walks and I'd love to return to Beinn Enaiglair in winter conditions.
PS. Now you know the meaning of my famous phrase "a Quickie in the neighbourhood"


We climbed this duo on two separate walks and I'd love to return to Beinn Enaiglair in winter conditions.
PS. Now you know the meaning of my famous phrase "a Quickie in the neighbourhood"



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Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by old danensian » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:51 pm
Nice to see how you warm up before the big events
OD
OD
Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:44 pm
BlackPanther wrote:Hi Rod, nice pics from a couple of my "local" lower hills. They are good viewpoints to Fannichs and Fisherfields, even when haze spoils it a bit... I hope you didn't suffer too much bog on the approach... The path to Home Loch needs some drainage I think![]()
We climbed this duo on two separate walks and I'd love to return to Beinn Enaiglair in winter conditions.
PS. Now you know the meaning of my famous phrase "a Quickie in the neighbourhood"![]()
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Hi BP, I'm copying your saying, sorry




Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:46 pm
old danensian wrote:Nice to see how you warm up before the big events
OD




Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by Petr Dakota » Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:32 pm
Nice quickies Rod - well spended time
Love the pic no.2 & 10
( not counting the map ) 



Love the pic no.2 & 10




Re: Two Quickies before the WH Durness Meet
by The Rodmiester » Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:59 pm
Petr Dakota wrote:Nice quickies Rod - well spended time![]()
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Love the pic no.2 & 10![]()
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( not counting the map )
Fine hills and a lovely fish supper, nice start to the long weekend. You probably would knock another 20mins off my time


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