Travel and Coronavirus

[jwramsay]

Thanks for this idiots guide - very useful.

Not sure where I wanted to go yesterday for my 50th munro, and stopped to the Bookle. Decided to use the curved ridge route, so accessed this guide from my mobile phone at the fork in the path. Found the start easily and then you can't get lost.

At the end of the actual curved ridge route, I was unsure where to go, so checked the guide.

I'd seen the group in front of me do round the front of the Crowberry Tower i.e. path to the right

When I read your guide it said that the path to the right was better than the scree to the left, so I took this route.

Some Rock Jocks coming off the Rannoch Wall met me and said "Can I ask where you are going?". When I said the summit they said, not this way matey!

So, I doubled back.

The actual route is to head slightly left up the scree and then the gap at the back of Crowberry Tower comes into sight and you head for that, ending up at the Crowberry Gap, where you vere left for the summit (no freaking way was I going up the Crowberry Tower!). It's a few hundred feet up to the summit from the Crowberry Gap, all easy stuff now and the exposure is no longer there.

Again, thanks for the guide.

[Bobfin3]

Thanks for compiling this report. I'm interested in doing this scramble. It's always good to get a first hand report on one of these walks. So many mixed messages about how difficult or easy it is.

Much appreciated and well written.

Thanks,

Rob.