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So, after
yesterday's antics and the issue of Stob Coire a' Chairn, we thought we'd sleep on it (
geddit geddit
) and in doing so we had injected a new life into ourselves. So, before breakfast, we headed off to do An Gearanach. Before which, we had to see what the weather was like...
- Oh yeah!
- We love wild camps!
- Sunrise
Talk about brilliant! Off we go!
Up to Bealach a' Chadha Riabhaich it was, and the up onto An Garbhanach.
- Loving it
We'd forgotten we still hadn't made it off the Ring of Steall, so we were pleasantly surprised at how spectacular it was, and were reminded again why it's one of the best munro walks.
An easy but narrow ridge lead to my earliest munro ever, An Gearanach.
- Ben Nevis. Fact of the day - the peak on the farthest left is almost 40 metres higher than us at 1020 metres, its just Ben Nevis is sooooooo huge!
- Ben Nevis photobomb
- There's the moon!
- Binnein Beag
Back along to the tent it was then!
- Spot the tent!
- There it is!
You may have noticed the bacon cooking on the trangia
which is the reason for the wild glamping title.
After the bacon we had to pack our house up and onto the packhorse named Dad, before we headed away up to the bealach between Stob Coire a' Chairn and Na Gruagaichean, before heading up to the top of Na Gruagaichean. At the top of the top, I discovered it doesn't (didn't) have a name on the ordnance survey map, so I now pronounce it
OOBA JABA. We then headed down about 1000 metres and then up 1015 metres onto Na Gruagaichean.
- Destination - Kinlochleven
- Na Gruagaichean
- Loch Leven
- Loch Eilde Mor
We headed down to the bealach, where we discovered why there were so many stalker's paths around
- The Locals
We then headed up onto an up until now unnamed summit which was soon named
OOBA DEE by guess who
- Ooba Dee
We left the bags here and headed up towards Binnein Mor, the highest, but in my opinion easiest munro of the Mamores.
- Binnein Mor
We then summited our last munro
- Binnein Mor
- Looking back
- I've never looked down on a munro like this before
We then headed down and up back to our bags on Ooba Dee, and then headed down to Sgurr Eilde Beag, which seemed small, but was still higher than our first munro of the weekend, Mullach nan Coirean by 15 metres.
- Me
- Dad
Dad decided we should take the direct route down Sgurr Eilde Beag because of the path shown on the OS maps, so we did that. It turned out to be a very good idea, as once on the slope, the path is maybe even better than the main one all the way to the junction with the main path. From here it was surely just a stroll to Kinlochleven...
- How hard can it be?
Very!
After what seemed like years we then reached Kinlochleven, where the chippy was closed
, and we were too tired to take any photos.
So - next stop the Cullins in October?