Johnny Corbett wrote:I'm just wondering what An Socach you did, i presume it's the one south of Breamar. The reason i ask is you could possibly not have reached the summit going by your description. You do reach a cairn then comes a steep climb to another large cairn but this cairn is not the summit. The summit is a 2km walk along the level plateaux gaining only 6 meters at 944m to the 938m at the cairn. I may be wrong, as possibly you have went a differant route.
Was with Taylor94 on Sunday however I have not time for my own report with pics yet but hopefully get them up this week, we did have a long walk the plateaux as far as we could go. Hopefully the pics will confirm if we did make the summit or not, as Taylor94 said visibility was pretty poor.
LeithySuburbs wrote:Hey, I think I bumped into you briefly at the burn crossing (I was the guy on his own looking for a way across)
! I gave up looking for a crossing place and just ploughed through it at the ford - it wasn't nearly as bad as it looked and no wet feet thanks to my boots
. No idea if you reached the "true" summit or not as it was a bit cloudy on the ridge... I know I did, but I've been there before
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Either way, who cares
? If you are from Aberdeenshire, you have plenty opportunity to return to this underrated Munro
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Think it was us you met at the burn. We managed across on a few rocks just up a bit from where we passed each other although I think the couple further up took of boots and socks etc.
I did notice you got across back near the track and was curious as to how you managed so now I know