by Frigate » Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:17 pm
Munros included on this walk: Beinn Chabhair
Date walked: 05/08/2012
Time taken: 5.75 hours
Distance: 12.7 km
Ascent: 1043m
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Managed to drag a willing Huck Finn away from the sailing and back to the hills. We were to do this route last week but the lure of a sail to Inchkieth and a chance to explore the gun emplacements etc was too great to resist.
Also the wives have decided to walk the West Highland Way early next year and have started training, so as an introduction they were to walk from Inverarnan to Tyndrum whilst we went upwards.
The girls managed to complete their walk in 5 1/2 hours and were waiting in Paddy's for us, well done ladies.
The weather was warm and humid with very little breeze and this made the walk up by the falls a bit of a sweat bath. Once up to the moorland and following Bein Glas burn the path was quite boggy with lots of soft peat wallows. We found a quad bike track that paralleled the path, not so boggy but very soggy walking over the compacted grass and sinking 50mm into water with each step.
It was here we caught up with a lone walker and stopped to pass the time of day, exchange information etc. The normal topics came up - weather, state of the path, walking fitness/aches and pains, over the course of the walk we met this gentleman three times and each time a little more information was gleaned. It transpired that James Farrell was in training for a fund raising walk up Ben Nevis for a charity dealing with Kidney Transplants. James himself was a recipient of two kidney transplants, had had a heart attack and was fitted with six stents due to narrowing of the arteries. Makes the few extra kilos I carry and the aching knee small fry.
WELL DONE JAMES!!!!
The faint path that leads up to Tarmachan is not difficult to find inspite of the WH route description that states "just before you can see Lochan Beinn Chabhair turn off up hill", if you cant see it how do you know it's there?
The walk up through the crags and along the ridge is the best part of the walk.
Returning by the same route as the ascent is not very interesting but there is not a great deal of choice.
Photos coming courtesy of Huck Finn productions
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