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Date. Saturday 14TH Aug 2010
Completed by. Dave
Weather. Blue skies with cloud on the tops
Time. 5 ½ hrs
Distance. 10.6 km
Ascent. 1185 m
Hills.
Munro’s x 2
Corbett’s x 0
Grahams x 0
The Aonach Eagach Ridge
Meall Dearg and Sgorr Nam Fiannaidh
Starting from.
Car park on South side of A82 at NN 168/568
Due to the prospect of 80% + cloud free Munro’s and the low wind forecast, I decided a big change was needed to my original route.
I was going to head to the bottom of Glen Etive and catch a couple of Munro’s and a Corbett. The other half again had a night out planned with the girls, this left Wilson and I to do our own thing.
Checked the weather forecast on Thursday and the Glen Coe / Glen Etive area looked very promising indeed… this was when I decided a change was needed to my plans.
There had been several walk reports in recent weeks about the Aonach Eagach ridge on the Walkhighlands site, and with the wind forecast as very low I made the snap decision to head for the ridge. Unfortunately for Wilson I had to leave him at home as I never new if he could handle the ridge. (This was the only time so far he has not been with me.)
I basically stuck to the route off Walkhighlands site.. But descended south at the summit of Sgorr Nam Fiannaidh, heading for the East tip of Loch Achtriachtan and on to the A82, this left me only a 3-4 km hike East to the car park.
Cracking day was had, never met to many people on the hill all day .. and the most interesting person i met was a very very young lad of 8 years old yes thats right 8 years old. He was with his Dad, i caught up with them at the end of the crazy pinnacles. I just had to shake the young guys hand, had time for a quick chat then went on my way. AMAZING