Reaching 100 on Creag Mhor and Feeling 100 too!

[mountain thyme]

Climbed these ones during the Nethybridge weekend meet. Forgot my camera on these ones So using my mobile for pictures! Bumped into Stevie V and Brian D at Glenmore at the start

Stevie V and Brian in their Kitchen

stevie v and Brian at the start

Started from Glenmore Lodge and cycled along the track passing the An Lochan Uaine.

Green Lochan

At the green Lochan

After about a 1km the track splits, the left split heading to Ryvoan Bothy. We took the right split and continued along the track towards Bynack Stable. We continued on our bikes down and across the bridge.
After the bridge I was off the bike and pushing it for quite a bit as the path has lots of gaps in it ? for drainage purposes? Or made by anti-cyclists ? We left the bikes soon after the bridge and continued up the man made track to where it splits.
The right split heading to Bynack More and the left in the direction of the Corbett Creag Mhor.

Split in the path

We took the left path from here it felt like a long long long bloody walk. We continued down to just before the Lochan Bhianne and then headed east up towards the summit of Creag Mhor . This would be my 100th Corbett and walking to the corbett I felt like 100 years of age!!

Cheers for the poster Stevie !

We climbed on the tors and sat for lunch for a good 20 minutes and then headed back down the way we came to pick up the path.

on creag mhor

on the tors

only view of Bynack More

on the tors

From the path we headed north west and climbed very steeply aiming for the barns of Bynack.
We must have been about 50metres or so away from the Barns when the rain and clag came down and we couldn’t see much in front of us and couldn’t find the Barns at all!

We continued north up to the summit of Bynack More. The rain continued so we stopped for a quick summit picture and then headed off.

Summit of Bynack More

summit of Bynack More

Not seeing much in front of ourselves in the clag we left the summit and we were heading in the direction of Bynack Beag. Quickly realising our mistake we changed direction and aimed more in an northern east direction and picked the path back up where it previously split.

We continued down this path, and picked up the bikes and mostly down hill from here and back towards Glenmore Lodge. Back to the car in 6hours 45 minutes. Time for a shower, food, some vino and quiztime. At least our table werent last this time, unlike baldfalcons table

the night is young

Happysnapper and Jupe.. Graeme D photobombing

Sports quizmaster

Stevie B smiling !!!!

WM and CO

Last but not least in the quiz :)

the next meet organisers :)

[rockhopper]

well done MT you may have reached it, you may have felt it......but you don't look it [too often].......

BTW - clipless pedals and cycling shoes - that way you can jump the gaps - cheers

[mountain thyme]

well done MT you may have reached it, you may have felt it......but you don't look it [too often].......

BTW - clipless pedals and cycling shoes - that way you can jump the gaps - cheers

Cheers RH
Being a novice cyclist how does that work ??

[dooterbang]

I've seen photos of you looking well over 150

[Johnny Corbett]

I've seen photos of you looking well over 150

Come on give the lass a break, she had two paper rounds, plus a milk round when she was growing up. Well done on reaching 100 MT

[rockhopper]

Being a novice cyclist how does that work ??

it's easier to pull your rear wheel off the ground when your shoes are clipped to your pedals - push down just before the gap/obstacle then pull handlebars up with hands to get front wheel up and pull rear wheel up by pulling up with feet clipped to pedals - horses for courses, some prefer flats, some prefer clipless (take a little getting used to though - when you stop you need to remember to unclip or you and the bike will fall over ) - cheers

[thebaldfalcon]

big walk with good company well done T. and thanks for chum up bynach

[mountain thyme]

Being a novice cyclist how does that work ??

it's easier to pull your rear wheel off the ground when your shoes are clipped to your pedals - push down just before the gap/obstacle then pull handlebars up with hands to get front wheel up and pull rear wheel up by pulling up with feet clipped to pedals - horses for courses, some prefer flats, some prefer clipless (take a little getting used to though - when you stop you need to remember to unclip or you and the bike will fall over ) - cheers

Ohhh Cheersfor that Could have cycled a bit further but got scunnered with the big breaks in the path

I've seen photos of you looking well over 150

Aye in Loch Quoich after a few hills with you

I've seen photos of you looking well over 150

Come on give the lass a break, she had two paper rounds, plus a milk round when she was growing up. Well done on reaching 100 MT

Actually I had one paper round JC

big walk with good company well done T. and thanks for chum up bynach

The ascent from hell up Bynack that way

[Jock McJock]

Well done T, congrats on the 100