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Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh


Postby Louise993 » Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:10 pm

Munros included on this walk: Moruisg

Date walked: 01/11/2014

Time taken: 5.13 hours

Distance: 7.1 km

Ascent: 930m

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Anne and I

A wee trip to Ullapool , with a wee treat of a hotel . DBB for 2 nights £49 squid , not bad eh ! :clap:

Weather was not great for this weekend

Anne was awfully dissapointed to find that Sgurr nan Ceannaichean had been demoted to a corbett . :lol:

It was such a miserable day we decided to leave it out .

Oh Nooooo after uploading suunto route i now have this terrible feeling we did not reach to true summit :shock:

oohhhhhhh noooooooooooo
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Re: Moruisg

Postby jmarkb » Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:26 pm

Oops! If you reached a reasonable large well built cairn http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/44525 then you weren't at the summit, which has a rather smaller scruffier one: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/44523

Never mind - a good excuse to go back on a better day and do both hills!
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Re: Moruisg

Postby Louise993 » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:01 pm

jmarkb wrote:Oops! If you reached a reasonable large well built cairn http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/44525 then you weren't at the summit, which has a rather smaller scruffier one: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/44523

Never mind - a good excuse to go back on a better day and do both hills!



Ha,ha yes gutted should have double checked this ah well , an will be delighted when i tell her the great news :lol:

Thanks for the post
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby brpro26 » Fri Nov 07, 2014 6:22 pm

Nae luck that happens now and again...should have taken your JPS (that's J for Jim.... :lol: )
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Beaner001 » Fri Nov 07, 2014 6:32 pm

Did the same a while back on Spidean Mialach in terrible mist. The return trip was a corker though, ended up buying myself a GPS and that mistake almost single handily made up my mind. Once the disappointment and dust has settled your return trip will be a beauty :wink: :D
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby sair feet » Mon Nov 10, 2014 2:43 pm

You kept this wee faux pas a secret, Lou :crazy:

Loved the JPS comment and the new pic Brian. There's a particularly fine selection of club weekends next year. All top secret just now but if you look at my blue dots it will give you a few clues.
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Louise993 » Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:25 pm

I had my GPS :lol:
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Louise993 » Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:26 pm

Not sure how i am going to tell Anne :roll:
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Play2End » Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:16 pm

Well, what did Anne say?
Missed you at Aviemore and the vegie meal!
The ridge to the Corbett is by far the most interesting feature of the Munro walk you will have to do again!
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Louise993 » Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:10 pm

brpro26 wrote:Nae luck that happens now and again...should have taken your JPS (that's J for Jim.... :lol: )



haha clearly you have not walked with Jim much :lol:
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Louise993 » Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:11 pm

Play2End wrote:Well, what did Anne say?
Missed you at Aviemore and the vegie meal!
The ridge to the Corbett is by far the most interesting feature of the Munro walk you will have to do again!



Hope you had a good wkend Iain

See you soon :wink:

I have not told her yet , so don't say anything :roll:
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby perr » Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:51 pm

Ahhh Moruisg .. I had the same dilemma and thought the only safe thing was to go to both the cairns. I enjoyed the walk without the hassle of doing the ex-Munro. Did wonder how all that tree planting is going to turn out - the little saplings seemed to be struggling
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Louise993 » Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:28 pm

brpro26 wrote:Nae luck that happens now and again...should have taken your JPS (that's J for Jim.... :lol: )



lol Brian

where are you been hiding ??
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby Louise993 » Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:55 pm

hmmmm hmmmm

I am now starting to think we did actually reach the summit as I am sure we were at 2 cairns as Jmark suggests .

The only reason I am in doubt is because of the map reading below. Any thoughts ?
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Re: Moruisg..oops no missed true summit arghhhhh

Postby jmarkb » Thu Jun 25, 2015 3:04 pm

I'm afraid it's rather unlikely your GPS was out by 300m!

(No, I'm not the Munro police, honest :wink: ).
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