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Great day this with Jim ,Ian and the bold Jake,started walking at about ten to eight following the steep path up to the lochans where we had a good pit stop,tomato soup all round(sorry jim for spilling it on yer mitts and giving you third degree burns
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- view from car park
- stob coire nan lochan revealing itself
- best picnic spot ever
After deciding this was the best picnic spot ever we turned right under the cliff faces and headed up stob coire nan lochan
- heading for stob coire nan lochan
At 1115 metres this is higher than most munro's i've done and it was a good clamber up the rocks with steep drops down in places
- jim with ian catching up and anoch eagach in background
- who placed that rock there?
- mad rock formations
Got to the top of stob coire lochan and didn't hang around to long as the mist came in a bit so headed down the track and then up the rocks to bidean
- climbing up to bidean
- cheesy grin on bidean
- BUDnean nam bam
Got to the top of bidean in good time(for us anyway),had a can of beer and a quick chat with a couple of guys who we would speak again to later,the tops were no quite clear up here but we could see glimpses of all the surrounding area,then headed on to the second munro,stob coire sgreamhach
- down to the lost valley
The cloud was starting to clear a bit and we could see down to the lost valley ,over to the mamores and the bookles
- mamores in the distance
- jim waiting on the slow coaches on sgreamhach
- steep route down
Also got our first look at the steep path down to the lost valley(looked worse than it was)
- jim and ian on sgreamhach
Had another chat with the guys and enjoyed the views for a while before heading back down to the dodgy path
- taking care on the scree path
Surprised to meet a fair amount of people doing these hills in the opposite direction to us,would think it would be easier coming down into the lost valley than up it ,seen some deer on the way down including a white stag
- looking back up the lost valley
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- spot the white stag contest
A good few families were enjoying the lost valley as we headed down past the giant boulders and into the trees
- lost valley
Had to take care here as the rocks were slippy and not sure if we missed a path or not but had to wade the river at one point
- wading
Back to the car in 6 and 3 quarter hours,2 cars in car park when we set off ,2 million when we got back,one of the best days on the hills yet,weather behaved itself for once and off course the mandatory pint ,this time in the kingshouse on way home,great