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The South Glen Shiel Ridge

The South Glen Shiel Ridge


Postby scoob999 » Tue May 10, 2016 6:26 pm

Route description: South Glen Shiel Ridge: 7 Munros

Munros included on this walk: Aonach Air Chrith, Creag a'Mhàim, Creag nan Dàmh, Druim Shionnach, Maol chinn-dearg, Sgùrr an Doire Leathain, Sgùrr an Lochain

Date walked: 30/04/2016

Time taken: 13.3 hours

Distance: 24.5 km

Ascent: 1792m

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Re: The South Glen Shiel Ridge

Postby boeda » Tue May 10, 2016 7:45 pm

Enjoyed your movie very much. We are planning to walk SGS-ridge this weekend, hopefully snow has melted since then.
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Re: The South Glen Shiel Ridge

Postby scoob999 » Tue May 10, 2016 9:26 pm

boeda wrote:Enjoyed your movie very much. We are planning to walk SGS-ridge this weekend, hopefully snow has melted since then.



Cheers, I would think so, it's been very hot :shock: P.S we never went the normal way up the first one hence use of the ice axe :roll:
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Re: The South Glen Shiel Ridge

Postby boeda » Tue May 10, 2016 10:37 pm

Your ascendroute was also what we had in mind. Looked very impressive with the ice axe. :clap:
But maybe we will go round and use the stalkers path. :lol:
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Re: The South Glen Shiel Ridge

Postby mostie » Tue Jan 03, 2017 4:38 pm

Awesome video!

I'm looking to walk this ridge at the end of April this year, so at the same time of year as you but there will be people who do not have crampons and ice axes. Do you think it was unusual that you had so much snow up there or do you think we should rather try to do this walk later in the year?

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Re: The South Glen Shiel Ridge

Postby teaandpies » Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:04 pm

mostie wrote:Awesome video!

I'm looking to walk this ridge at the end of April this year, so at the same time of year as you but there will be people who do not have crampons and ice axes. Do you think it was unusual that you had so much snow up there or do you think we should rather try to do this walk later in the year?

:-)


At this rate we'll be in t shirts by April :lol:
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Re: The South Glen Shiel Ridge

Postby robodob » Mon Jan 09, 2017 8:54 pm

Oh so THAT'S what it looks like, great video. I saw about 50m into grey clouds for the 10hrs it took us...in July.
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