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Ok I'd finally convinced my buddy Stevie5664 to get back out on the hills, 26 years after he'd done the WHW in 3 days !!! Took me several attempts at persuading him but since he was off this week I knew this was probably the best chance.
Hummed and hawed as to where we should go, checked various forecasts and picked Thursday as it was allegedly going to be a better day. Bad move. It piddled down pretty much most of the day. Thanks MWIS.
But at least he was out again. Picked on Stob a'Choire Odhair and Stob Ghabhar as 2 very do-able summits with a nice ridge walk in between. Well there would have been a nice ridge walk, if we could have seen it. The clag came down just after we started the steep climb to Stob a'Choire Odhair and never lifted. No views from the summit worth speaking about, and didn't fancy doing a ridge walk with such low cloud. Which would also be slippy given the constant rain so the decision was taken to head back down after the obligatory summit photo to prove we'd been there..... as usual with me I found it easier going down than coming up, but Stevie felt it was the other way for him.
Good news is he's now looking at a decent pair of waterproof boots as the pair he had on yesterday ended up rather damp. Not surprising really as the climb is pretty boggy and the path isn't much better.....
At least with the way this route is planned it's quite straighforward to just do Stob Gabhar on it's own, although it is quite a long walk out from Victoria Bridge. Maybe someone's done this one from another direction ? Is it possible at all to come from the North or West ?
A few damp pics, in no particular order now.............
- Up there ahead......
- Kinda boggy path...
- Drowned rat....
- Nearly a smile....
- Cloud dropping.....
- Dropping even more......
Quite sensible decision to abandon ship as the clag was never gonna lift with such light winds and the rain had no intentions of letting up either. Always another day.....