
I'd done Venue by this route before, including the Simms on the west side of Venue. We wouldn't be visiting them today however. Just a muddy walk up from Ledard Farm. We could see the clag was down higher up Ledard Glen, and as we left the shelter of the trees the rain became heavier, the wind stronger. The boy seemed to be coping alright, however. We stopped for an early lunch, under my orange canopy, soon after crossing the burn on iron bars. we'd passed a group of three experienced walkers,who told us they'd turned back at the bealach due to the weather. As we were having lunch a couple of ?Spanish walkers came past and asked us if we were carrying on up - it sounded like they too had bailed. We smiled and said, "-Yes" "To the top??" -"of course".

Glen Ledard


Lunch in the "orange"

In fact it dried up a bit as we resumed our walk uphill - the wind was strong from behind us at the bealach, but we were relatively sheltered as we turned the corner and headed for Venue. The summits were still clag shrouded and we missed the turn off for the true summit, ending up going to the eastern top first. There were several other folk milling about who had presumably come up the Achfary route. We back-tracked to the true summit then traced our steps back down, me managing to slip on the wet slabs and give my elbow a good crack





With typical good timing, as we headed off the crags the sky brightened, the sun came out and views were to be had. Not much snow left of the bigger hills to the north. Quite a pleasant walk back down to the car.
Timing is everything


Venue, no longer shrouded

