by Huck Finn » Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:45 pm
Date walked: 13/02/2011
Distance: 13.5 km
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The trip through was wet, well apart from the odd snow fall.
The start of the walk was wet, but the six of us set of at a good pace. At 150 meters 6 became 5 as Rab on his first attempt at a Munro had to turn back due to feeling sick.
The five that remained continued on and it was not long until the snow was falling, then as is normal on the hills, it was not long until it was falling horizontal.
There was no real shelter on the way up and the snow under foot started to turn to ice, but we battled on and reached the top of Choire Challum, but by this time we could not see any further than about 20 meters. Most of us felt it was a bit to dangerous to continue along the ridge, with the Ice and driving snow.
Just as we were getting ready to head back down, another lone walker appeared, Toby from Carlise.
Toby and Dangerous Dave decided to have a go at the summit, the rest of us headed back.
Dave mad it to the summit, only to find out that Toby was not heading back down and he was heading on to do a Corbett. Dave became a lone wolf and started his decent on his own, he made good time and got back to the car 10 minutes after us.
I did not manage any video as it was to wild to get the camcorder out, but I got some photos and I have put them together onto a small Video slide show.
The walkers today were Dave - the only one of us to make it
Charlie, Ian, Kevin and Watty who made it to the ridge
Robert who crashed and burned on his first trip.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLexasYWpTA[/youtube]