For my first Munro Beth took me up Cairn Gorm. We went what I think was probably the easy way from the funicular car park, up Fiacaill a' Choire Chais to the 1141m top and then across to the summit. It was a quiet day with next to no wind (unlike the day before and the days to come) but there was a lot of cloud which we were effectively walking in and so very poor visibility, seldom more than 100m, and we didn't see many people all day.

Although it was effectively raining on us the humidity was so high that both of us ended up walking in just base layer on top and only putting more on when we stopped which we did at the summit where we lunched in the lee of the weather station (the only place where there was a bit a breeze).



Coming down I was vaguely appalled by the path they've put in between the summit and the Ptarmigan station. It's a real ankle turner. We got off it and walked alongside. How the hell tourists in less suitable shoes manage I'll never know.

Anyway I never did get to see the view from the top although I was amused that there was effectively a tea shop close to the summit (in the Ptarmigan) as the running joke of our holiday was to go to some remote glen, walk for some hours and then one of us would say "so ... where's the tea shop again?". Cairn Gorm was about the only place that actually had one ... but we resisted.