Hi there,

Just to let you know that Mount Keen was added to our Munros on Saturday 18/06/2011.
Sorry no pictures were taken, I would have needed an underwater camera.
Unfortunately we were unable to pick our day for this trip, it had to be done on the 18th.
The weather report stated that it would rain all day...it certainly did.
It rained from the time we left Kemnay until we arrived back home.
The walk up to the Queen`s Well was nice and flat and easy, but past the cottage things changed.
It was a gruelling trek up the path in the rain.
At the cairn near the fork to Mounth Road visibility was really poor, nearer the summit it became quite blustery as well, we had to continually look back to see if we could see where we came up the path, if the visibility had got any worse we would have had to abandon the ascent.
However we made it in 6 hours which to our reckoning wasn`t too bad?
This was our first climb in continual wetness and it was a learning curve (must remember to put spare socks and small towel in a plastic bag).
Although we had waterproof equipment some wetness was observed mainly on our extremities (elbows, knees etc) is this normal, pehaps we expected too much of our equipment?
We did really enjoy the walk and climb in the end, was very quiet, only seen one other person on our travels.
Will do it again though, but will pick the day more carefully weatherwise.