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What a day. Made a decision late the previous week that if the weather held I'd start my holiday with a trip up to Fort William and climb the Ben the hard way. It held. I did.
Drove up from Newcastle on Bank Holiday Monday, to my sisters in Edinburgh and a 6 o'clock start on Tuesday morning had me parking in the North Face car park just after 830. Just to back track a little though, I have to say the drive through Glencoe was simply stunning, quiet roads, not many clouds some of which were sitting on the peaks, I would have stopped to take some photos but wanted to get up to the car park thinking as the forecast was good it may be busy. As it happened it was relatively quiet.
Not sure how much the total ascent or distance covered was ( I've added a guesstimate from other walk reports) as I managed to loose my GPS in the Lakes yesterday
Since been found and handed into Cumbria Police, thanks again Dave Richardson and family
Anyway, enough of the waffle from me, let the pictures tell the story of a glorious day in the hills, a bit of a chill in the air when I left the car park, but over 20 degrees when I got back there that afternoon. Enjoy, I sure did.
