Great expedition, and really excellent report - 2 Mullardoch reports in one week - brilliant (thinking of Weaselmaster's also). I can look at pics of this route interminably, 'cos I didn't really get any reasonable ones when I did it (ancient mobile, running out of battery). They're all good, but the sunset one is particularly nice
- I can just imagine how good it looked thinking that you were just about to crash!
I'm truly astonished that you multiple day guys manage to lug all your gear over that distance - Ress- peckt!!! (BTW your pack looks astonishingly small - I really wonder how on earth you do it! There are clearly some very arcane packing skills involved here...). Well done
Good to see you're continuing the swim-walk theme - though I still miss the selfie during the crossing.... But you'll soon need something new... So how about: living off the land (goat stew...??)???
I did the route the other way around, but my experience reflected yours in many ways: utterly utterly jaw-dropping views of the Cuillin and Torridon; that rough and boggy bit at the beginning (at the end for me - I did it anti-clockwise); and the water problems. I always take loads of water on ridges - bitter experience; but 2 litres was not enough by a country mile for each of the ridges. I was reduced to sucking snow; from which it's quite impossible to get enough water, as anyone who's tried it knows
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Just a practical point: I notice you wear boots, and that you got blisters. I did the round in trail shoes (on for the first time) in combination with 1000 mile socks and got no blisters at all. Have you tried this approach? I used to wear boots, but always got blisters on long routes; so I gave them up when I realised that fell runners did the self-same routes in running shoes, with no apparent problems. I know it doesn't work for everyone, but it does for me, and for quite a few others.
