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A last minute outing after an invite from George and the hills were 'hand' picked by John. Parminder was away on another family visit down in the big smoke so a couple of hills were ideally picked that Parminder has already done. Forecast was OK albeit no views until about 2pm ish, which was during our final descent.
The plan George and John came up with was to meet at the Mhor 84 car park and then head for the car park at the start.
The participants as well as George and John were Alistair (John's son), Joe (John's brother) and Badge.
The way ahead
Looking back whilst waiting for the stragglers
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Slightly higher up
Views very similar to last months trek up Stob Binein as the start point was the same
Looking south
The way ahead and up
Gaining height
Kind of shows how cold it was and going to get colder
Very impressive bunch of "tites"
Nearly in the cloud
Reached the white stuff
Last view of the loch
Arty shot
Let the fun begin
There are no photo's from the final ascent, summit and initial descent of Tulaichean, it was far too cold and I couldn't be bothered and didn't want to take my gloves off. We ate our lunch in a kind of sheltered bit on BT and then said our goodbyes to John and his co-pilots.
Lots of white and grey
My Ardrain buddy
Nice rock formation
Summit of Ardrain and George doing his silly pose
A very, very brief glimpse of blue sky, luckily I was quick with my phone to record it
Ardrain summit
Very icy poles
Descending now
More tites on the descent
Snow layer very obvious during our descent down to the path
Still a bit of descending to do
Finally on the path/track which takes us back to the cars
A few photo's that I took on my camera, mainly zoomed ones.
Cracking day out and it was bitterly cold on Tulaichean, huge thanks to George for driving.
Planning to head out on Thursday as the forecast looks promising, going to tackle the 3 near Newtonmore.
